18 January, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Vision/Strategy
The current debate, in the UK and abroad, on the need to cut back the state in order to unleash the power of entrepreneurship and innovation in the private sector, builds upon a stark contrast that is repeatedly drawn by the media, business and libertarian politicians: a dynamic, creative...
06 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
The beginning of the new year seems an appropriate time to reflect upon the progress, and potential, of what must surely rank as one of the most astonishing and encouraging developments of 2011: the emergence and rapid spread of the Occupy movement. Most participants in, and observers of, the...
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...
02 December, 2011 // Category: Activism, Environment, International, Vision/Strategy
As the Durban Climate Change Conference (COP 17) continues, we present the views of a range of international climate justice activists and writers on where the movement should go from here. Contributors were asked to produce a short response to the following question: The current outlook for...
14 November, 2011 // Category: Activism, International, Vision/Strategy
Norman Finkelstein is one of the world's foremost scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict. He is the author of, most recently, Beyond Chutzpah, which systematically documents the realities of Israel's human rights record, and This Time We Went Too Far, an analysis of Israel's assault on Gaza in...
12 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Media, Vision/Strategy
Over the next few weeks NLP will present a range of material relating to the most recent edition of Socialist Register - The Crisis and the Left. We kick off with an exclusive presentation of David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we are serializing in six parts over consecutive...
23 October, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Gustav Landauer was the most important anarchist thinker in Germany after Max Stirner. He was born in 1870 of a middle-class Jewish family in Karlsruhe in southern Germany. As a student he joined the German Social Democratic Party (SPD). Due to his political activities, which led to a spell in...
20 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
Tim Gee is an activist, a blogger and a campaigns trainer. His first book Counterpower: Making Change Happen is published today. It looks at the strategies and tactics that have contributed to the success (or otherwise) of some of the most prominent movements for change, from India’s Independence...
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...
14 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Vision/Strategy
The Occupy movement that has spread with remarkable speed across the U.S. is coming to London tomorrow. New Left Project will be running a series of articles looking at issues of relevance to the protest, including the role of the financial system in the economic crisis, alternative ways of doing...
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