02 December, 2011 // Category: Activism, Environment, International, Vision/Strategy
As the Durban Climate Change Conference (COP 17) continues, we present the views of a range of international climate justice activists and writers on where the movement should go from here. Contributors were asked to produce a short response to the following question: The current outlook for...
30 November, 2011 // Category: History, Labour movement
Gregor Gall is professor of industrial relations at the University of Hertfordshire and is one of the leading commentators on trade unionism in the UK. He is on the editorial board of Scottish Left Review and is the author, most recently, of Tommy Sheridan: From Hero to Zero?: A Political...
29 November, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, History, Labour movement, Politics, The Right
In 1972 trade union members, supported by student activists, dealt a critical blow to the Conservative government, which two years later was defeated at the polls after members of the National Union of Mine Workers again voted for strike action. On the eve of the biggest strike in the UK for a...
28 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment, International
Twenty Years ago, at the Earth Summit, the world’s Governments signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to create a legally binding framework to address the challenge of climate change. Today, the Green House Gas emissions that contribute to climate change have increased not...
28 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Environment, International, Politics
As the Durban Conference on Climate Change begins, we present the first of several pieces about climate change and the climate justice movement: an extract from the newly published Politics of Climate Justice by the South African activist and academic, Patrick Bond. Here Bond argues that another...
26 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment
Over the next few weeks NLP will present a range of material relating to the most recent edition of Socialist Register - The Crisis and the Left. To begin, we exclusively present David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we are serializing in six parts over consecutive weekends. You can...
25 November, 2011 // Category:
Something out of the ordinary happened in Cambridge this week. In an institution better known for populating than challenging this country’s ruling classes, a sitting Minister of State, David Willetts, was, as indignant news reports put it, ‘prevented from speaking.’ Willetts had been invited by...
25 November, 2011 // Category: Activism, Religion
Symon Hill is an activist, writer and trainer. He is associate director of the Christian thinktank Ekklesia and the author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the reaction of the Church hierarchy to the presence of the Occupy protesters at St Paul's cathedral....
22 November, 2011 // Category: International
John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the recent mayoral election in Seoul. In a recent article you said that Park Won Soon, the newly elected mayor of Seoul, is "perhaps the first politician to win with...
21 November, 2011 // Category:
In the second of a two-part review of Domenico Losurdo's Liberalism: A Counter-History (Verso 2011), Ed Rooksby challenges Lorsudo's central contention that liberalism is defined by a logic of exclusion and develops a rival account of the nature of liberal ideology. ***** Losurdo’s argument...
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