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. ...
08 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
The dramatic scenes in English cities last August of burning buildings, bands of hooded and masked youths pillaging stores, and thousands of police patrolling major streets in riot gear were bound to trigger rash statements and knee-jerk reactions. Set against the political backdrop of steep...
19 November, 2011 // Category: Philosophy and Theory
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. To begin, we exclusively present David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we are serializing in six parts over consecutive weekends. You can...
18 November, 2011 // Category: History, Philosophy and Theory, Politics
In the first of a two-part review, political theorist Ed Rooksy examines the original perspective on the liberal tradition set out by Italian philosopher Domenico Losurdo in Liberalism: A Counter-History (Verso 2011). His critique of Losurdo and rival account of the nature of liberalism are...
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...
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...
11 October, 2011 // Category: International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics
Partisanship is a phenomenon, much like political correctness, that appears to be both highly prevalent and nearly universally opposed. Jon Stewart’s 'Rally to Restore Sanity', held last year, marked a highpoint of what one might call ‘liberal anti-partisanship’. It is ‘liberal’ though only in...
07 September, 2011 // Category: Culture, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory
Ivor Southwood tells the story of how, at a time when he was living in a condition of underemployment - relying on short-term contracts given to him at the last minute by employment agencies - he one morning made the mistake of going to the supermarket.1 When he returned home he found that an...
01 September, 2011 // Category: Economy, History, Philosophy and Theory
David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the history and evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on...
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