15 March, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Philosophy and Theory
Last month we published an article by Richard Seymour, 'We are All Precarious - On the Concept of the "Precariat" and its Misuses', criticising conventional analyses of the precariat and arguing for its re-conceptualisation as a 'populist interpellation' arising from the conditions generated by...
14 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the second of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the relationship between...
13 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Culture, Media
In an article in early 2011 the Deterritorial Support Group wrote that those judging political activism from afar, detached from real life in city streets, could be “forgiven for thinking that the prime concern of class struggle today is social media”. This judgement could only have been...
12 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the first of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the early development of...
07 March, 2012 // Category: Activism
In the recent fight against SOPA and PIPA avid believers in the right of free speech who view the internet as an antidote to the corporate owned media found themselves in an alliance with some of the largest and most powerful corporations in the world. Moreover, it was apparent that Google,...
06 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, History, Vision/Strategy
Paul LeBlanc is Professor of History and Political Science at La Roche College, Pittsburgh. He is the author of a number of books on revolutionary and radical politics, most recently Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience and Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism. He spoke to...
02 March, 2012 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, History, Vision/Strategy
Profiteering energy companies raise average bills to record levels. Train fares climb up to 8% above inflation. Rents in places like London are at an all time high. All this against a background of real wage stagnation, increasing unemployment and creeping inflation: what has the British left’s...
29 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and whose latest book is The Plot Against the NHS (with Stewart Player). He spoke to NLP co-editors Alex Doherty and Ed Lewis about the political struggle over the NHS and...
28 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Religion
The Occupy London camp outside Saint Paul’s Cathedral was unique. No other protest in hundreds of cities across the world was so passionately engaged with the church. That gave the church a chance to learn from the movement. In an essay called “The Judgement of the World” Archbishop Rowan...
27 February, 2012 // Category: Economy
In my January column I explained that by stonewalling financial regulatory reform and imposing draconian fiscal austerity in the midst of the worst economic recession in eighty years ruling elites in Europe, the US, and Canada have us on track for what amounts to economic suicide, putting the...
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