06 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
The beginning of the new year seems an appropriate time to reflect upon the progress, and potential, of what must surely rank as one of the most astonishing and encouraging developments of 2011: the emergence and rapid spread of the Occupy movement. Most participants in, and observers of, the...
14 November, 2011 // Category: Activism, International, Vision/Strategy
Norman Finkelstein is one of the world's foremost scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the author of, most recently, Beyond Chutzpah, which systematically documents the realities of Israel's human rights record, and This Time We Went Too Far, an analysis of Israel's assault on Gaza in...
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...
01 September, 2011 // Category: Economy, History, Philosophy and Theory
David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the history and evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on...
29 August, 2011 // Category: Economy, History, Philosophy and Theory
David Graeber is a Reader of Anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on anthropological evidence...
21 July, 2011 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Religion
Al-Qaeda returned the Enlightenment to the political agenda. The debate about the significance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Bush administration’s subsequent ‘war on terror’ was framed, in part, as a debate about Enlightenment values. For many the attacks spoke above all to the...
13 July, 2011 // Category: History, Politics
In early twentieth century America many thinkers perceived and reacted to a shift towards judgement by experts, an apparent realisation of an influential tradition in political thought that has conceived of political judgement as a technical skill. Some, like Walter Lippmann[1], championed...
04 May, 2011 // Category: Activism, International, Vision/Strategy
‘Solidarity’ has been the mantra of the British student movement – #solidarity its hashtag. In the face of sneering caricatures and smug prejudice, students in their tens of thousands have been moved, on more than one occasion over the past seven months, to protest the government’s...
22 April, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Media
Dan Hind was a publisher for more than ten years, working for, among others, Penguin and Random House. In 2009 he left the industry to develop a program of media reform. In The Return of the Public he argued for the democratisation of the media is a prerequisite for self-determinaton and rational...
21 April, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Media
Dan Hind was a publisher for more than ten years, working for, among others, Penguin and Random House. In 2009 he left the industry to develop a program of media reform. In The Return of the Public he argued for the democratisation of the media is a prerequisite for self-determinaton and rational...
23 February, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Environment, Europe, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Caroline Lucas is the leader of the Green Party. She is also an MP for Brighton Pavilion, making her the only elected Green member of parliament. I caught up with her this evening to ask about how her first term in office is going, the Green Party’s response to the government’s cuts and the...
09 February, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, International, Law, Politics
Nicholas Shaxson is a British journalist and Associate Fellow of Chatham House. His most recent book, Treasure Islands, is a highly readable and often shocking account of the murky world of offshore finance. The book provides serious intellectual ammunition to the growing campaigns in Britain and...
24 January, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, International
Make no mistake about it: despite attempts by some to downplay the significance of the biggest leak of secret documents in the history of the Middle East conflict, the Palestine Papers are explosive. Their content will not surprise those who have been paying attention. Nonetheless, as Ali Abunimah...
21 January, 2011 // Category: International, Politics, Racism
Ece Temelkuran is one of Turkey’s most prominent journalists. A recipient of the Turkish Journalist of the Year and the Pen for Peace awards, she is a persistent foe of right-wing nationalist currents in her country and has suffered death threats over her writings on the Kurds and the Armenians....
15 December, 2010 // Category: Economy, Education
Ha-Joon Chang is a leading development economist and critic of neoliberalism. His 2002 book Kicking Away the Ladder showed that today’s rich countries became rich by following precisely the policies they now deny to developing countries – his follow-up Bad Samaritans prompted Financial Times...
13 December, 2010 // Category: Economy
Ha-Joon Chang is a leading development economist and critic of neoliberalism. His 2002 book Kicking Away the Ladder showed that today’s rich countries became rich by following precisely the policies they now deny to developing countries – his follow-up Bad Samaritans prompted Financial Times...
08 September, 2010 // Category: Foreign policy, Media
For decades Gideon Levy has used the platform provided by the liberal Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz to shine a light on the brutal realities of Israel’s occupation. His journalism, along with that of his colleague Amira Hass, has been an invaluable resource not only for Israeli readers but,...
21 July, 2010 // Category: Foreign policy
Norman Finkelstein is one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals writing about the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the author of many books on the topic, most recently Beyond Chutzpah, an exhaustive account of Israel’s human rights record, and This Time We Went Too Far (reviewed in NLP),...
15 July, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Foreign policy
The coalition’s commitment to severe spending cuts makes it difficult to predict with any certainty what its foreign policy will look like, although improvements on the status quo seem unlikely. One policy that is becoming increasingly clear, however, is a determination to promote British arms...
13 July, 2010 // Category: Activism, Foreign policy
Norman Finkelstein is one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals writing about the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the author of many books on the topic, most recently Beyond Chutzpah, an exhaustive account of Israel’s human rights record, and This Time We Went Too Far (reviewed in NLP),...
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