31 March, 2011 // Category: Activism, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His most recent book is In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and Sam Gindin). Leo spoke to NLP’s Edward Lewis about the...
24 March, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His most recent book is In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives (with Greg Albo and Sam Gindin). Leo spoke to NLP’s Edward Lewis about the...
06 March, 2011 // Category: History, Politics, Vision/Strategy
The following letter is an exclusive excerpt from The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg. It is introduced by Peter Hudis, one of the editors of the volume. Introduction to Rosa Luxemburg’s Letter to Clara Zetkin of January 11, 1919 This letter was written in the immediate aftermath of the abortive...
03 March, 2011 // Category: Activism, Environment, Vision/Strategy
The first part of this series discussed the ways in which an understanding of advances in human psychology have laid the basis for a transformation in the way civil society groups operate. Attempts to promote “win-win” scenarios or reach new audiences by appealing to certain types of motivation...
23 February, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Environment, Europe, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Caroline Lucas is the leader of the Green Party. She is also an MP for Brighton Pavilion, making her the only elected Green member of parliament. I caught up with her this evening to ask about how her first term in office is going, the Green Party’s response to the government’s cuts and the...
16 February, 2011 // Category: International, Vision/Strategy
Iselin Asedrotter Stronen is a social anthropologist, studying for a PhD at the University of Bergen, Norway. She is researching social movements in Venezuela, doing her fieldwork in the barrios of Caracas. In discussion with Samuel Grove she explores in detail an extensive range of issues...
12 February, 2011 // Category: Activism, Environment, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
A couple of months ago, in early December – the same day students and others were gathering in Parliament Square to defend the idea of an education system to serve the common good – upwards of a hundred members and campaigners from a whole range of environmental and development NGOs met in a...
11 January, 2011 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
The world is upside down. Tim Montgomerie is gently mocking himself, to appreciative laughter, in a room full of the same left-wing bloggers who daily accuse him of spreading lies on Twitter. Meanwhile, Polly Toynbee and Laurie Penny are being roundly criticised with the same medium for being...
06 January, 2011 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
Joseph Healy is the Secretary of Green Left and is on the steering committee of the national anti-cuts organisation, the Coalition of Resistance Against Cuts and Privatisation. He met NLP’s Edward Lewis in mid-December to talk about the origins, structure and strategy of the coalition, and about...
31 December, 2010 // Category: Activism, Religion, Vision/Strategy
Tim Holmes has one thing in common with George Osborne - they both went to Saint Paul’s School in London. In November, he was invited to speak to the school’s Christian Union. An edited transcript of that talk follows, in which he gives a wide-ranging analysis of the injustices inflicted by the...
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