07 May, 2012 // Category: Activism, Culture, Gender equality, Law, Philosophy and Theory
New Left Project recently hosted a vigorous debate on pornography between two feminist writers – the journalist Sarah Ditum who took a pro-porn stance, and the academic and activist Gail Dines who holds an anti-porn stance. After a brief summary of the debate (which can be skipped if you have...
20 April, 2012 // Category: Philosophy and Theory, Terror/War
Any British or American reader who picks up this book is more than likely to have come across a sort of joke French intellectual called Bernard-Henri Lévy, usually known as BHL in France, where the acronym has become his signature. They may have come across his name during the recent Dominique...
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...
12 April, 2012 // Category: Gender equality, History, Philosophy and Theory, Racism
Charles W. Mills is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Racial Contract and has written extensively about racism and political theory. In an interview with Tom Mills he discussed his views on race, liberalism, capitalism...
10 April, 2012 // Category: International, Philosophy and Theory
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 attitude to the role of theory, fact and human nature in political argument....
15 March, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Philosophy and Theory
Last month we published an article by Richard Seymour, 'We are All Precarious - On the Concept of the "Precariat" and its Misuses', criticising conventional analyses of the precariat and arguing for its re-conceptualisation as a 'populist interpellation' arising from the conditions generated by...
14 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the second of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the relationship between...
12 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the first of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the early development of...
15 February, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
'Our challenge to be a young country is not just economic, it is social and moral. Look at 'the wreckage of our broken society.' Tony Blair, 1995 'What is it I am really passionate about? It is actually social recovery as well as economic recovery. I think we need a social recovery, because as...
10 February, 2012 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Introduction: Standing for the precariat In its current formulation, the concept of ‘the precariat’ is unconvincing, impressionistic and certainly tinged with millennial Weltschmerz. It is Guy Standing of Bath University who has done the most to popularise the concept and, at the same time,...
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