06 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, History, Vision/Strategy
Paul LeBlanc is Professor of History and Political Science at La Roche College, Pittsburgh. He is the author of a number of books on revolutionary and radical politics, most recently Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience and Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism. He spoke to...
29 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and whose latest book is The Plot Against the NHS (with Stewart Player). He spoke to NLP co-editors Alex Doherty and Ed Lewis about the political struggle over the NHS and...
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...
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...
07 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement
Ursula Huws is, amongst other things, the director of the social and economic research consultancy Analytica. As part of NLP’s series of pieces around this year’s Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – Huws spoke to NLP's Ed Lewis about her contribution to the volume, 'Crisis as...
05 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Foreign policy, International
As part of our series of material related to the most recent edition of the Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – New Left Project's Ed Lewis interviewed Adam Hanieh about the international political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Hanieh is a lecturer in development...
16 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, International, Politics
Political economist Hugo Radice is a Life Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. In an interview with NLP’s Ed Lewis, he addresses a series of questions on the escalating crisis in the Eurozone. We are being told that the eurozone faces a...
15 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment
Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. As part of NLP’s series of pieces around this year’s Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – Lohmann spoke to Ed...
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: 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...
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...
06 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Foreign policy, International
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
29 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Foreign policy, International, Racism
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
28 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Foreign policy, International
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
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