11 July, 2011 // Category: Culture, Employment & Welfare, Law, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Owen Jones is a union lobbyist turned political commentator. He has written for a wide range of publications and has been prominent on television and radio since the publication of his new book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Verso, June 2011). Recently he caught up with Sam Grove to...
04 July, 2011 // Category: Culture, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Media
Owen Jones is a union lobbyist turned political commentator. He has written for a wide range of publications and has been prominent on television and radio since the publication of his new book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Verso, June 2011). Recently he caught up with Sam Grove to...
16 February, 2011 // Category: International, Vision/Strategy
Iselin Asedrotter Stronen is a social anthropologist, studying for a PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is researching social movements in Venezuela, doing her fieldwork in the barrios of Caracas. In discussion with Samuel Grove she explores in detail an extensive range of issues...
11 October, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Media
Dan Hind was a journalist and publisher until 2009, when he left publishing to focus on campaigning for media reform. He is the author of The Threat to Reason and, most recently, The Return of the Public. He spoke to Samuel Grove about his proposals for popular participation in the process of...
17 August, 2010 // Category: Law, Media
The ability of dominant elites to exploit crises and configure them in ways appropriate to their narrow interests is a capitalist staple. The economic crisis was articulated as a stock market crisis meriting a massive transfer of wealth to the financial class. Equally when the elites refer to...