07 January, 2012 // Category: Europe, Politics, The Right
Since New Year’s Day, Hungary is no longer officially a republic. Signs on the border crossings and all official documentation have been changed accordingly. The new constitution, with its talk of historical destiny and stated desire for continuity with Horthy-era Hungary, has been enacted in its...
06 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
The beginning of the new year seems an appropriate time to reflect upon the progress, and potential, of what must surely rank as one of the most astonishing and encouraging developments of 2011: the emergence and rapid spread of the Occupy movement. Most participants in, and observers of, the...
04 January, 2012 // Category:
Since the 1990s there has been a rise in feminist activist strategies used by girls and women to challenge inequalities felt in cultural, social and political spheres. This includes the Riot Grrrl movement, with a twenty year history; Ladyfest, which celebrated its tenth birthday in 2010; and...
02 January, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, Law, Media
Even if you didn’t know much about it, you might consider the head of the official Government inspectorate of prisons an unlikely source for reactionary, authoritarian rhetoric about the UK’s “cushy” and “comfortable” prisons. You’d probably find it still more unlikely if you knew anything about...
30 December, 2011 // Category: International
John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He spoke to Alex Doherty about the politics of North Korea under the late Kim Jong Il and where the country may go from here. Outside of North Korea and China Kim Jong Il is largely viewed as at best...
23 December, 2011 // Category: Disability, Employment & Welfare
This article is from issue 49 of the journal Soundings and is available online exclusively at NLP. Both left and right have a tendency to treat out-of-work benefit receipt as a symptom of broad societal malaise - whether this is seen in terms of the failures of capitalism, or of moral decline,...
22 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
This is the second excerpt from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. The campaign against Tate retaining BP sponsorship has been spearheaded by the arts collective Liberate Tate through a series of performance...
20 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
In the wake of the news that several of major UK arts institutions have decided to renew sponsorship deals with BP, we present the first of two excerpts from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. Here, James Marriott...
15 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Gender equality
TThis article is from issue 49 of the journal Soundings and is available online exclusively at NLP. Since the Coalition government was 'elected' in the United Kingdom in May 2010, we have opened our newspapers each day to litanies of cuts to services - in health care; domestic violence...
13 December, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Vision/Strategy
On October 26th a woman was raped at Occupy Glasgow and the previous week a woman was raped at Occupy Cleveland. There has been relatively little reporting on these incidents, either in the news or among activists. The incidents are a dreadful personal tragedy for the women involved, but what...
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