15 February, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
'Our challenge to be a young country is not just economic, it is social and moral. Look at 'the wreckage of our broken society.' Tony Blair, 1995 'What is it I am really passionate about? It is actually social recovery as well as economic recovery. I think we need a social recovery, because as...
14 February, 2012 // Category: Environment, Health
Ro Randall is a psychotherapist and long time climate change activist. Among other works, she is the author of Loss and Climate Change: The Cost of Parallel Narratives. She spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty. Typically psychoanalysis is characterised as an inward looking approach to mental health,...
13 February, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Europe, The Right, Vision/Strategy
Steve McGiffen has had a long involvement with left politics in Europe. He is a former official of the United European Left Group in the European Parliament and has been associated in various capacities with the Socialist Party of the Netherlands since 1999. He is also the editor Spectrezine. He...
10 February, 2012 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Introduction: Standing for the precariat In its current formulation, the concept of ‘the precariat’ is unconvincing, impressionistic and certainly tinged with millennial Weltschmerz. It is Guy Standing of Bath University who has done the most to popularise the concept and, at the same time,...
08 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Gender equality, Vision/Strategy
Emma Dowling was a panellist in one of the discussions at last week's event to mark the publication of Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason. Earlier that day, she discussed her analysis with NLP co-editor John Brissenden. Your work seems to be very wide-ranging, eclectic almost, and I...
07 February, 2012 // Category:
Just as the European settler economies in North America grew to eclipse the economic power of “Old” Europe during the twentieth century, at least some of the BRICS – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – were already on a trajectory to rise relative to both North America and Europe in...
06 February, 2012 // Category:
Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. and President of Just Foreign Policy. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the continuing fiscal crisis in the eurozone. The IMF has recently called for governments to slow the pace of their budget...
04 February, 2012 // Category:
Yes, it’s kicking off everywhere. Over the last 18 months we have seen a sea change in resistance and popular consciousness. The Arab Spring has put revolution back on the agenda of global politics. In Britain, we’ve seen the occupation of Millbank and student revolt, the huge TUC March and...
02 February, 2012 // Category: Culture
The Coalition Government’s long awaited Film Policy Review (published Monday 16th Jan and available here) was overshadowed by David Cameron’s comments during a visit to Pinewood Studios. Cameron summarized the Coalition’s attitude to the cinema in the following way: “Our role, and that of...
02 February, 2012 // Category:
Paul Mason is Economics Editor of BBC2’s Newsnight. NLP is the media partner for today’s launch of his new book Why it’s Kicking Off Everywhere. Based on a blogpost that went viral in February 2011, Mason’s new book explores the global revolutionary social movements of the past couple of...
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