11 August, 2010 // Category: Activism, Economy, Politics, Vision/Strategy
The NLP cuts debate has consisted of an opening argument by Richard Seymour, and responses from Sunny Hundal, Tom Denning, Andrew Fisher, Kevin Blowe and David Wearing. Here, Richard Seymour draws the debate to a close with a consideration and discussion of the various responses to his original...
05 August, 2010 // Category: Activism, Politics
Tom Denning is a member of The Commune, an organisation which stands for communism from below, and writes here in a personal capacity. He is involved in a local anti-cuts committee in London. In the past month, while the contributors to this debate have been writing their pieces, a real movement...
04 August, 2010 // Category: Activism, Politics
Richard Seymour has written an ambitious article on the real ideological agenda behind the Coalition’s cuts and why Labour has found it incredibly difficult to respond adequately. I have some quibbles about how the past is represented. Briefly, I think that a fair bit of Labour party rhetoric...
03 August, 2010 // Category: Politics
In the face of the deepest cuts to public spending for a generation, New Left Project is hosting a debate on the cuts and how the left should respond. We open with a deep and searching analysis of the economic, ideological and strategic dimensions of this issue from the writer and blogger Richard...
23 July, 2010 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
“I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.” - Neil Kinnock, Glamorgan, 7 June 1983 The neoliberal ontology of the human being, that is, its conception of what a human being actually is, reveals a great deal about its...
08 June, 2010 // Category: Politics
Steve McGiffen has been associated in various capacities with the Socialist Party of the Netherlands since 1999, and though he now lives in France, continues to work as a translator for the party. He is a former official of the United European Left Group in the European Parliament, and edits...
23 May, 2010 // Category: Politics
I stood for Labour in the 2010 General Election and spoke to hundreds of people during the campaign. It is clear to me that Labour must reanalyse its place in British politics and society, and I want to contribute to that debate. I am yet to decide who to support as leader, but think the most...
12 May, 2010 // Category: Politics
A funny thing happened to me on the way to the polling station. A producer for a well-known television company rings to discuss a possible spot on a high-profile election night comedy special. But sadly it is not my legendary comedic talent she is after. Instead, my role would be to leaven the...
10 May, 2010 // Category: Politics
The moment that I realised that yet again I would be unable to join in, herd-like, with something that people were saying was vital and urgent was when I heard the roar of approval for Nick Clegg. I’m talking, of course, about the ‘purple revolt’ of Take Back Parliament, the coalition...
02 May, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Politics
Without prejudice to the outcome of this most unpredictable of elections, the task of surveying and assessing the legacy of Gordon Brown is certainly an important one. It is a task taken up - with wit, verve and erudition – by Christopher Harvie; senior academic, Member of the Scottish...
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