26 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Disability
Readers of the New Left Project will most likely be familiar with the emergence of a new ruling class ideology, Neoliberalism, in the 1980’s. This revival of 19th century laissez faire economics originated with the ‘New Right’ of the Thatcher–Reagan era but found its clearest expression in 1989’s...
10 November, 2010 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare
“As far as I can see the only thing we can do is hit the streets, stop the traffic, do what we have to do.” - Sam Brackenbury, DPAC member He said if disabled people did not protest, many of them would end up homeless and living on the street, so protesting was about “survival”1. Since...
23 July, 2010 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
“I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.” - Neil Kinnock, Glamorgan, 7 June 1983 The neoliberal ontology of the human being, that is, its conception of what a human being actually is, reveals a great deal about its...