02 January, 2012 // Category: Foreign policy, Law, Media
Even if you didn’t know much about it, you might consider the head of the official Government inspectorate of prisons an unlikely source for reactionary, authoritarian rhetoric about the UK’s “cushy” and “comfortable” prisons. You’d probably find it still more unlikely if you knew anything about...
30 December, 2011 // Category: International
John Feffer is the co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He spoke to Alex Doherty about the politics of North Korea under the late Kim Jong Il and where the country may go from here. Outside of North Korea and China Kim Jong Il is largely viewed as at best...
23 December, 2011 // Category: Disability, Employment & Welfare
This article is from issue 49 of the journal Soundings and is available online exclusively at NLP. Both left and right have a tendency to treat out-of-work benefit receipt as a symptom of broad societal malaise - whether this is seen in terms of the failures of capitalism, or of moral decline,...
22 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
This is the second excerpt from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. The campaign against Tate retaining BP sponsorship has been spearheaded by the arts collective Liberate Tate through a series of performance...
20 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
In the wake of the news that several of major UK arts institutions have decided to renew sponsorship deals with BP, we present the first of two excerpts from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. Here, James Marriott...
15 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Gender equality
TThis article is from issue 49 of the journal Soundings and is available online exclusively at NLP. Since the Coalition government was 'elected' in the United Kingdom in May 2010, we have opened our newspapers each day to litanies of cuts to services - in health care; domestic violence...
13 December, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Vision/Strategy
On October 26th a woman was raped at Occupy Glasgow and the previous week a woman was raped at Occupy Cleveland. There has been relatively little reporting on these incidents, either in the news or among activists. The incidents are a dreadful personal tragedy for the women involved, but what...
12 December, 2011 // Category:
The Afghan Solution: the inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and how Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan", by Lucy Morgan Edwards, Bactria Press, October 2011, 368pp The US and NATO attempt to “establish a client state” in Afghanistan - to use the phrase of the business press, which broke ranks...
09 December, 2011 // Category: Labour movement
Tim Lezard is a former president of the National Union of Journalists and co-founder of UnionNews. He spoke to Kate Belgrave and Ed Lewis about the strikes of November 30 and where the labour movement should go from here. How successful was the strike on November 30, both in terms of the...
08 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
The dramatic scenes in English cities last August of burning buildings, bands of hooded and masked youths pillaging stores, and thousands of police patrolling major streets in riot gear were bound to trigger rash statements and knee-jerk reactions. Set against the political backdrop of steep...
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