29 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last week NLP attended the launch of a new book, Public Service on the Brink – a timely edited collection describing the denigration of the public service ethos over the last three decades. Tom Mills spoke to one of the book’s contributors, the PCS’s General Secretary Mark Serwotka, about the...
22 March, 2012 // Category: Economy, Politics
We know by now that George Osborne is a species of economic illiterate. Cutting government spending in a weak economy makes the economy weaker, not stronger. Demand falls, meaning firms sell less. If firms sell less, they cut wages and make redundancies. A vicious circle is established. And firms...
20 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Media, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Editor's note: Today we are excited to launch our publication of a new ebook by Dan Hind on the Occupy movement and deliberative politics. In Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, Dan makes a powerful case for the need to generalise the model of public meetings and...
14 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the second of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the relationship between...
12 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the first of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the early development of...
29 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and whose latest book is The Plot Against the NHS (with Stewart Player). He spoke to NLP co-editors Alex Doherty and Ed Lewis about the political struggle over the NHS and...
15 February, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
'Our challenge to be a young country is not just economic, it is social and moral. Look at 'the wreckage of our broken society.' Tony Blair, 1995 'What is it I am really passionate about? It is actually social recovery as well as economic recovery. I think we need a social recovery, because as...
25 January, 2012 // Category: International, Politics
Paul Street is an activist and author whose works include Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11, The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power, and Crashing the Tea Party: Mass Media and the Campaign to Remake American Politics. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty...
16 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Book Review, Culture, Europe, History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, The Right
The Crisis of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age by Alana Lentin and Titley, Zed Books, 2011, 284 pp. Defending Multiculturalism: A Guide for the Movement by Hassan Mahamdallie (ed.), Bookmarks, 231 pp. In 2011 David Cameron brought neo-Powellite racism to the heart of Government. ...
09 January, 2012 // Category: International, Politics, Terror/War
An established public intellectual and key liberal supporter of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when Michael Ignatieff became the leader of the Canadian Liberal Party in 2008, it seemed only a matter of time before he would become prime minister. Derrick O’Keefe, a Vancouver-based social justice...
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