17 May, 2012 // Category: Activism, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? talked to Ed Lewis and Samuel Grove about the status of capitalist realism, social media and the challenges for the left today. [Editor's note: this piece was mistakenly billed as 'Part 1' of a two part interview. However, what...
14 May, 2012 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
Simon Hardy is socialist activist and writer and is a founding member of Anticapitalist Initiative, a new organisation for the UK radical left. He spoke to NLP's Ed Lewis about why he believes a new project of this kind is needed. Tell us about the origins of Anticapitalist Initiative and what...
04 May, 2012 // Category: Europe, Politics, Vision/Strategy
The first round of the French Presidential elections has raised important lessons for the democratic left – about both organisation and ideas. The media is talking about how well the far right did. But the socialist left did well too. More than one in ten electors voted for the Front de Gauche....
04 May, 2012 // Category: International, Racism, Vision/Strategy
Ben White is a freelance journalist and writer specialising in Palestine/Israel. His work has appeared in the Guardian, the New Statesman, and Electronic Intifada. He is the author of 'Israeli Apartheid' (2009) and, most recently, 'Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and...
30 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last month New Left Project published an edition of Dan Hind's new pamphlet, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, which makes a powerful case for generalising the model of public meetings and discussion popularised by the Occupy movement, to empower 'the 99%' to reclaim...
17 April, 2012 // Category: Book Review, History, Labour movement, Vision/Strategy
Socialism with a Northern Accent: Radical traditions for modern times, by Paul Salveson, Lawrence & Wishart, 2011 George Galloway’s recent triumph in the Bradford West by-election probably wasn’t, as claimed, “the most sensational victory in British political history”. But it was an undeniably...
12 April, 2012 // Category: International, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Alison Edgley is Lecturer in Sociology of Health at Nottingham University and author of The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky. She spoke to Robert McLaren about Chomsky's work, focusing in this part on his relationship to contemporary social and political science. Part One, in which...
09 April, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, History, International, Vision/Strategy
As a university lecturer, I often find that my students take today’s dominant economic ideology – namely, neoliberalism – for granted as natural and inevitable. This is not entirely surprising given that most of them were born in the early 1990s, for neoliberalism is all that they have known. In...
30 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Vision/Strategy
This week saw the online launch of a new international organisation for radical social transformation, the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS). Two of the founding members, Michael Albert of ZNet and Jason Chrysostomou of Project for a Participatory Society UK, spoke to...
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...
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