28 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, International, Vision/Strategy
On March 26, a movement that has existed for several decades but has largely been absent from UK politics, known as “Black Bloc”, emerged from the shadows and scared the living daylights out of Middle England. They blitzed central London, smashing the windows of the Ritz and the high street...
27 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Vision/Strategy
I find myself in the very unusual position of suggesting a moderate union leader has engaged in infantile ultra-leftism. I’m referring to the claim by Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, that he would ‘mount the most sustained campaign of industrial action the country has seen since the...
24 June, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Education
Among the near universal expressions of dismay that greeted the announcement of the establishment of Grayling Hall, renamed the New College of the Humanities, there was some lamenting that iconic self-professed humanists, most of whom had been thought to exemplify the humanities’ most fundamental...
23 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare
Two events of note take place at Unison’s annual conferences in my experience: 1) general secretary Dave Prentis makes a gripping “fight them on the beaches” speech which is followed by absolutely no action whatsoever and 2) Unison heavies expel (inevitably on fatuous grounds) at least one...
22 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Europe, International, Politics, Vision/Strategy
The only way to describe recent developments in Greece is to refer to a peaceful popular insurrection that has led to an open political crisis. The mass gatherings at city squares at the centres of all major Greek cities continue to gather momentum. Since the 25th of May, Athens and most Greek...
20 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, History
As part of Liverpool’s ‘2020 Health and Wellbeing’ campaign, a council-led initiative that aims to improve health and well-being in the region, 2011 has been given over to a series of events to mark a century of radicalism in the city. ‘Liverpool, City of Radicals’ joins individuals, schools...
17 June, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Education
Dark warnings about what the future holds for higher education, the fear that American system was ‘coming here’, have been ten-a-penny for years. Today, though, it’s a different story. What the meteorologists call ‘nowcasting’ – when you turn your head up to the sky to check the...
17 June, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Politics, Racism
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has spent his academic life mapping the social, political and medical geographies of Britain, concentrating on inequality and differences in life chances. He is the author of Injustice: Why Social Inequality...
16 June, 2011 // Category: Environment, International, Politics
René Ramírez is Ecuador’s National Secretary of Planning and Development. He previously worked as an academic and is the author of several books related to alternative views on economic and human development. Ramirez spoke to Roberto Navarrete during a recent visit to the UK about what his...
14 June, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Politics
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has spent his academic life mapping the social, political and medical geographies of Britain, concentrating on inequality and differences in life chances. He is the author of Injustice: Why Social Inequality...
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