01 November, 2011 // Category:
As the Durban Conference on Climate Change (COP 17) continues, we present the views of an international group of climate justice activists and writers on where the movement should go from here. Contributors were asked to produce a 500-600 word response to the following question: The current...
01 November, 2011 // Category:
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at Portland State University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy and he is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Here he discusses the composition of the Occupy Wall Street movement, his hopes...
31 October, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, History, Politics
Now we know. We are in the midst of a prolonged economic crisis in which the output of the British economy fell by 7.2 per cent and growth has been close to stagnant for the last nine months. Yet Britain’s leading executives have been behaving as if they have personally pioneered an unprecedented...
28 October, 2011 // Category:
Following the Argentine fiscal default of 2001, the slogan “occupy, resist, produce” became the hallmark of a new political movement that had strong autonomous tendencies. With mass capital flight from the country, many factories and workplaces were left with no choice but to close down. With one...
25 October, 2011 // Category: Economy, Europe
The long phase that lasted thirty years starting with the neoliberal turn of 1979–80 was anything but a retreat of the state; nor was it characterized by the abandonment of interventionist policies. Certainly the U-turn in economic policies at the end of the 1970s generated a rapid compression of...
23 October, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Gustav Landauer was the most important anarchist thinker in Germany after Max Stirner. He was born in 1870 of a middle-class Jewish family in Karlsruhe in southern Germany. As a student he joined the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). Due to his political activities, which led to a spell in...
22 October, 2011 // Category:
Paul Street is an activist and author whose works include 'Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11', 'The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power, and 'Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics'. He spoke to NLP's Alex...
21 October, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Terror/War, The Right
The campaigning group Spinwatch launched a report on two right-wing think-tanks at the House of Commons last week. Co-authored by NLP’s Tom Mills, The Cold War on British Muslims argues that British neoconservatives are waging ideological warfare against Muslim and left-wing groups, and liberal...
20 October, 2011 // Category: Culture, Disability, Media
Ricky Gervais has, you'll have heard, caused quite a stir on Twitter by using the word "mong" – derived from "mongoloid", offensive slang for a person with Down's Syndrome. Gervais has been reluctant to justify his tweets, and admonished his collaborator Warwick Davis for apologising when he...
20 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
Tim Gee is an activist, a blogger and a campaigns trainer. His first book Counterpower: Making Change Happen is published today. It looks at the strategies and tactics that have contributed to the success (or otherwise) of some of the most prominent movements for change, from India’s Independence...
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