22 October, 2011 // Category:
Paul Street is an activist and author whose works include 'Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11', 'The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power, and 'Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics'. He spoke to NLP's Alex...
21 October, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Terror/War, The Right
The campaigning group Spinwatch launched a report on two right-wing think-tanks at the House of Commons last week. Co-authored by NLP’s Tom Mills, The Cold War on British Muslims argues that British neoconservatives are waging ideological warfare against Muslim and left-wing groups, and liberal...
20 October, 2011 // Category: Culture, Disability, Media
Ricky Gervais has, you'll have heard, caused quite a stir on Twitter by using the word "mong" – derived from "mongoloid", offensive slang for a person with Down's Syndrome. Gervais has been reluctant to justify his tweets, and admonished his collaborator Warwick Davis for apologising when he...
20 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
Tim Gee is an activist, a blogger and a campaigns trainer. His first book Counterpower: Making Change Happen is published today. It looks at the strategies and tactics that have contributed to the success (or otherwise) of some of the most prominent movements for change, from India’s Independence...
19 October, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy
"Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who makes its laws". -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1838 The great challenge for the left today, not least the UK labour party, is posing a genuine alternative to the economics of austerity that currently dominates policy across...
15 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Gender equality, International, Racism, Vision/Strategy
Editor's note: This piece by two Americans active in the U.S. occupy movement discusses some of the ways in which racial, sexual, religious, and other oppressions have been replicated and challenged within the occupied space. We publish this piece both as a frank discussion of some of the...
14 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Vision/Strategy
The Occupy movement that has spread with remarkable speed across the U.S. is coming to London tomorrow. New Left Project will be running a series of articles looking at issues of relevance to the protest, including the role of the financial system in the economic crisis, alternative ways of doing...
13 October, 2011 // Category:
Stephen Devereux is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton. He is the author of Theories of Famine and editor of The New Famines: Why famines persist in an era of globalisation. He spoke to Tom Mills about the current situation in Somalia and the broader food...
12 October, 2011 // Category: Education, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Melissa Benn is a journalist, novelist and campaigner. Her most recent book is School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education. In it she analyses the Coalition government’s attempts to revolutionise the British school system through a privatising agenda, the troubled history of education reform...
11 October, 2011 // Category: International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics
Partisanship is a phenomenon, much like political correctness, that appears to be both highly prevalent and nearly universally opposed. Jon Stewart’s 'Rally to Restore Sanity', held last year, marked a highpoint of what one might call ‘liberal anti-partisanship’. It is ‘liberal’ though only in...
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