04 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Health
Last month UNICEF released a report into child well-being in the UK, as a follow-up to their study in 2007, which ranked the UK in bottom place out of 21 developed countries for the wellbeing of children. Samia Aziz spoke to Agnes Nairn, who wrote the report, about her findings. Nairn is also the...
21 February, 2011 // Category: Activism, International
Joana Ramiro is a post-graduate student of politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She is co-founder of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts and a member of the National Committee of the socialist youth movement Revolution. She blogs at www.volume3blog.blogaspot.com ...
22 December, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Media
Agnes Nairn is co-author of Consumer Kids: How big business is grooming our children for profit. She spoke to Samia Aziz about how children are targeted and manipulated by today’s corporate marketing strategies, and the social and psychological impacts of this rapidly intensifying phenomenon. ...
23 November, 2010 // Category: Activism, Politics
A major focus of the ongoing work of Tony Benn - perhaps the most iconic figure on the British left - is to communictae with young people about politics (see, for example, his latest book, Letters to My Grandchildren). Shortly before the latest student protests he spoke to Samia Aziz, herself a...
02 October, 2010 // Category: Activism, Education
Michael Chessum has been active in Free Education, anti-cuts and Living Wage campaigns, as well as anti-war and Palestine solidarity activism. He co-founded the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) last year, and is now Education and Campaigns Officer at UCL Union. In this interview he...
14 September, 2010 // Category: Culture, Racism
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London and has taught at the University of Sussex and Brunel University. His most recent book is a User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation and he has also written extensively on Western foreign...
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