21 January, 2012 // Category: International, Racism
Israel's Dead Soul, by Steven Salaita, Temple University Press, 2011, 176 pp. Open a liberal publication after a major Israeli military operation, and you are as likely as not to find some scribbler fretting introspectively over the state of Israel’s soul. Dying, decaying, dirtied, corrupted,...
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. ...
10 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, Religion, The Right
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, brings together a decade of his writings on conservatism. In the second of a two-part interview he discusses his book...
08 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, Racism, The Right
Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His latest book, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, brings together a decade of his writings on conservatism. In the first of a two-part interview he discusses the book with...
21 October, 2011 // Category: Foreign policy, Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Terror/War, The Right
The campaigning group Spinwatch launched a report on two right-wing think-tanks at the House of Commons last week. Co-authored by NLP’s Tom Mills, The Cold War on British Muslims argues that British neoconservatives are waging ideological warfare against Muslim and left-wing groups, and liberal...
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...
29 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Foreign policy, International, Racism
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
17 September, 2011 // Category: Law, Racism
On Monday 8th August, in South London, three hundred young people gathered outside Battersea’s Lavender Hill police station “taunting” the police to come out. In Nottingham, three police stations were attacked including Canning Circus police station, which was firebombed. The Pembury Estate in...
26 July, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Media, Politics, Racism
In his classic text The Sociological Imagination, C Wright Mills observed that ‘men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction… the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live.’ [1] He argued that the job of...
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...
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