04 May, 2012 // Category: Europe, Politics, Vision/Strategy
The first round of the French Presidential elections has raised important lessons for the democratic left – about both organisation and ideas. The media is talking about how well the far right did. But the socialist left did well too. More than one in ten electors voted for the Front de Gauche....
04 May, 2012 // Category: International, Racism, Vision/Strategy
Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Electronic Intifada. He is the author of 'Israeli Apartheid' (2009) and, most recently, 'Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and...
03 May, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Gender equality
The first lap dancing club in the UK opened in 1995. Since then lap dancing has become part of mainstream culture, with the 300+ lap dancing clubs nationwide visited by well-known figures such as Stephen Hawkings and Rihanna. Jennifer Hayashi Danns, 28, worked as a lap dancer for two years...
02 May, 2012 // Category: Culture, Labour movement
Alex Niven is a writer, blogger, and academic from Northumberland. He also edits the Oxonian Review. In an interview with William Farrell he discusses his first book Folk Opposition, which explores the left’s relationship with anti-establishment populism in British culture. What’s wrong with...
30 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last month New Left Project published an edition of Dan Hind's new pamphlet, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, which makes a powerful case for generalising the model of public meetings and discussion popularised by the Occupy movement, to empower 'the 99%' to reclaim...
29 April, 2012 // Category: China, International, Politics
Wang Kang, a sixty-something, well connected man about Chongqing, calls himself a buyi, a term loosely meaning ‘unaffiliated scholar.’ Mr Wang’s scholarship consists of a low level but productive multimedia career, one which has seen him apparently gain widespread familiarity with the city’s...
27 April, 2012 // Category: Education, Politics
I have worked all my life in education, as a teacher, head teacher and governor, in all sorts of schools, grammar, comprehensive and secondary modern – even a few years in a private school in New York. Being asked to contribute to Public Service on the Brink forced me to try to make better sense...
26 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Politics
Development officer, community mobilizer, public defender – the Ugandan MP wears many caps. This situation applies across much of sub-Saharan Africa, where acting as representative on a national assembly may rank only second among an MP’s chief concerns. This article takes a closer look at the...
25 April, 2012 // Category: International, Law, Racism
Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Electronic Intifada. He is the author of 'Israeli Apartheid' (2009) and, most recently, 'Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and...
24 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Environment
There is a difference between radicals and reformers. Radicals believe we need fundamental “system change” because as long as the system is left in place it will prove impossible to solve important problems. Absent system change, radicals believe solutions can only be partial and remain...
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