15 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Gender equality
TThis article is from issue 49 of the journal Soundings and is available online exclusively at NLP. Since the Coalition government was 'elected' in the United Kingdom in May 2010, we have opened our newspapers each day to litanies of cuts to services - in health care; domestic violence...
13 December, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Vision/Strategy
On October 26th a woman was raped at Occupy Glasgow and the previous week a woman was raped at Occupy Cleveland. There has been relatively little reporting on these incidents, either in the news or among activists. The incidents are a dreadful personal tragedy for the women involved, but what...
11 November, 2011 // Category: Gender equality
Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, based at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Freedom Paradox, Growth Fetish and, most recently, Requiem for a Species. In the second part of a two part interview he...
09 November, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Religion
Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, based at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Freedom Paradox, Growth Fetish and, most recently, Requiem for a Species. In the first part of a two part interview he speaks...
15 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Gender equality, International, Racism, Vision/Strategy
Editor's note: This piece by two Americans active in the U.S. occupy movement discusses some of the ways in which racial, sexual, religious, and other oppressions have been replicated and challenged within the occupied space. We publish this piece both as a frank discussion of some of the...
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...
04 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Gender equality, Media, Philosophy and Theory, Politics
In her first book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, journalist and activist Laurie Penny argues that the commodification, sexual objectification and degradation of women’s bodies, is key to maintaining advanced capitalist societies. If women said ‘No’ – no to pornification, no...
01 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Gender equality, Media, Philosophy and Theory, Politics
In her first book, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism, journalist and activist Laurie Penny argues that the commodification, sexual objectification and degradation of women’s bodies, is key to maintaining advanced capitalist societies. If women said ‘No’ – no to pornification, no...
22 July, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Politics, Racism
‘Blue Labour’ is in serious trouble – perhaps even dead in the water. In a remarkably ill-judged interview with the Daily Telegraph, the faction’s most prominent intellectual and organisational driving force, Lord Glasman, emphatically pushed a button marked ‘self-destruct’ – calling...
27 May, 2011 // Category: Gender equality, Racism
Feminism is making a comeback. Aided by the internet, women across the globe are resisting gender oppression in all its old and new manifestations, making global connections and reclaiming feminism for a new era. Since its inception, feminism has faced much external criticism, but it has also...
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