15 August, 2011 // Category:
David Edwards and David Cromwell are the editors of Medialens, they spoke with NLP’s Edward Lewis on the significance of the News International scandal and its likely implications for the British media. You write about the depredations of the corporate media, viewing them as forming a system of...
12 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Economy, Gender equality, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Jonathan Rutherford is professor of cultural studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings journal. He is co-editor of The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox as well as author and editor of books on culture, gender and politics. He spoke to Edward Lewis about the challenges...
28 April, 2011 // Category: Culture, History, Media, Politics
With the Royal Wedding approaching, patriotic NLP co-editors Alex Doherty and Edward Lewis decided to mark the big day with award-winning journalist Johann Hari. Hari writes twice-weekly for the Independent and the Huffington Post and is the author of ‘God Save the Queen?’. Britain must stop...
26 April, 2011 // Category: Education, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory
This interview is with the late political theorist, Brian Barry (1936-2009), and was conducted in 2006. The interview was initially carried out for the now defunct radical left website UK Watch, which in some ways was a predecessor of NLP. The interview focused on Barry’s last book, Why Social...
31 March, 2011 // Category: Activism, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His most recent book is In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and Sam Gindin). Leo spoke to NLP’s Edward Lewis about the...
24 March, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His most recent book is In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and Sam Gindin). Leo spoke to NLP’s Edward Lewis about the...
20 March, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International
Richard Seymour writes the blog Lenin’s Tomb and is the author of The Liberal Defence of Murder and The Meaning of David Cameron. Following the onset of military intervention in Libya, he spoke to NLP’s Edward Lewis about the motives underlying the operation and whether or not it can be...
06 January, 2011 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
Joseph Healy is the Secretary of Green Left and is on the steering committee of the national anti-cuts organisation, the Coalition of Resistance Against Cuts and Privatisation. He met NLP’s Edward Lewis in mid-December to talk about the origins, structure and strategy of the coalition, and about...
12 December, 2010 // Category: Environment, Vision/Strategy
Derek Wall is an economics lecturer and writer. He has been a member of the Green Party since 1980 and was Green Party Principal Speaker from 2006 to 2007. He is a founder of the Ecosocialist International and Green Left and maintains a blog here. NLP’s Edward Lewis interviewed him about his new...
09 December, 2010 // Category: Activism, Education, Politics
Maeve Mckeown is a Political Theory PhD Student at University College London and has been a participant in UCLOccupation since it began over two weeks ago. She gave NLP’s Edward Lewis an insider’s account of the UCL occupation, increasingly seen as a vital hub of the student movement. Why did you...
02 November, 2010 // Category: Environment, Politics
Derek Wall is an economics lecturer and writer. He has been a member of the Green Party since 1980 and was Green Party Principal Speaker from 2006 to 2007. He is a founder of the Ecosocialist International and Green Left and has written widely on green politics. His latest books are The Rise of the...
23 September, 2010 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
John Baker is Associate Professor of Equality Studies at University College Dublin, and a member of the UCD Equality Studies Centre and the School of Social Justice. He is the author of Arguing for Equality and co-author of Equality: From Theory to Action and Affective Equality: Love, Care and...
17 September, 2010 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
John Baker is Associate Professor of Equality Studies at University College Dublin, and a member of the UCD Equality Studies Centre and the School of Social Justice. He is the author of Arguing for Equality and co-author of Equality: From Theory to Action and Affective Equality: Love, Care and...
22 August, 2010 // Category: Foreign policy, Politics
Michael Neumann is a Professor of Philosophy at Trent University, Canada. He has long been a tireless critic of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, and has written extensively on the topic. He has also sharply intervened in debates within the Palestinian solidarity movement about a two-state...
14 August, 2010 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory
In the second part of a discussion of left-wing political philosophy, Edward Lewis and the political philosopher Stuart White discuss how to institutionalise the values of the left, focusing in particular on the idea of an unconditional basic income. Part one of this interview can be read here. ...
28 July, 2010 // Category: Philosophy and Theory
Stuart White is a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and a member of Demos’s advisory council. He writes about political philosophy and its application, and is the author of Equality and The Civic Minimum. He spoke with Edward Lewis about the philosophical foundations of the left and their...
04 July, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Europe
Steve McGiffen has been associated in various capacities with the Socialist Party of the Netherlands since 1999, and though he now lives in France, continues to work as a translator for the party. He is a former official of the United European Left Group in the European Parliament, and edits...
25 June, 2010 // Category: Vision/Strategy
In the second part of this extensive discussion, Wright lays out a framework within which to conceive of strategies for radical social transformation, and discusses the fundamental challenges to such transformation in the world today. Part one of this interview can be read here. You describe...
15 June, 2010 // Category: Vision/Strategy
Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. This discussion focuses on his recently published book, Envisioning Real Utopias. In this part, the focus is on the foundations of emancipatory alternatives to capitalism, and the existing practices that...
08 June, 2010 // Category: Politics
Steve McGiffen has been associated in various capacities with the Socialist Party of the Netherlands since 1999, and though he now lives in France, continues to work as a translator for the party. He is a former official of the United European Left Group in the European Parliament, and edits...
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