02 April, 2012 // Category: Culture, Gender equality
This week NLP is running a debate about the approach that leftists and feminists should take towards pornography. The debaters are Gail Dines, an anti-porn activist and professor and author of Pornland: How Porn is Hijacking Our Sexuality, and Sarah Ditum, a freelance journalist and writer on...
30 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Vision/Strategy
This week saw the online launch of a new international organisation for radical social transformation, the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS). Two of the founding members, Michael Albert of ZNet and Jason Chrysostomou of Project for a Participatory Society UK, spoke to...
29 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last week NLP attended the launch of a new book, Public Service on the Brink – a timely edited collection describing the denigration of the public service ethos over the last three decades. Tom Mills spoke to one of the book’s contributors, the PCS’s General Secretary Mark Serwotka, about the...
28 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Media, Racism
Stephen Harper is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests span political and social issues in British television, critical theory and cultural geopolitics. He has written academic articles on a wide range of subjects including British...
26 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Media
This week NLP took part in a publishing experiment - we published one of three versions of a new e-pamphlet by Dan Hind, called Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty. In this article, also co-published on Dan's blog and openDemocracy, Dan explains the attractions of the...
23 March, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, International, Terror/War
Last week’s massacre of 16 Afghan civilians in Panjwai by an American serviceman, and the death of six British soldiers in Afghanistan the previous week, have focused attention on the support, or lack of it, among the public for Britain’s continued military presence in the country. A YouGov...
22 March, 2012 // Category: Economy, Politics
We know by now that George Osborne is a species of economic illiterate. Cutting government spending in a weak economy makes the economy weaker, not stronger. Demand falls, meaning firms sell less. If firms sell less, they cut wages and make redundancies. A vicious circle is established. And firms...
22 March, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Vision/Strategy
“The most important thing a worker ever produces is himself….” -Raymond Williams I’ve lived in eight cities over the past seven years; worked for at least twelve employers in a variety of industries with and without pay; gone without healthcare, unemployment insurance, and a stable...
20 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Media, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Editor's note: Today we are excited to launch our publication of a new ebook by Dan Hind on the Occupy movement and deliberative politics. In Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, Dan makes a powerful case for the need to generalise the model of public meetings and...
19 March, 2012 // Category: Education, Employment & Welfare
Parents of young children, currently hard-pressed to meet the £15,000 sometimes required to meet annual full-time childcare costs in the UK, might be surprised by a recent initiative from the soft-left grouplet Next Generation Labour. Next Generation Labour call for a '24 hour National Childcare...
| Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License