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...
20 December, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Europe
Dr. Nat O’Connor is a Policy Analyst for TASC (Think-Tank for Action on Social Change), an independent think-tank that seeks to combat Ireland’s high level of economic inequality (they have a multi-person blog at www.progressive-economy.ie). James Arnold interviewed him about the economic...
10 October, 2010 // Category: Europe, History
New Left Project’s David Wearing reviews two books exploring key episodes in French history, the revolutionary decade of 1789-1802 and the Paris Commune of 1871. The Oxford History of the French Revolution, by William Doyle (Oxford University Press, 496pp) The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the...
03 September, 2010 // Category: Europe, Foreign policy
Nine years after it was delivered, Tony Blair’s speech to the 2001 Labour Party conference remains a chilling piece of hubris and hypocrisy. Britain’s government, he claimed, was not only concerned with the well-being of its own people but with the entire planet. “The starving, the wretched,...
04 July, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Europe
Steve McGiffen has been associated in various capacities with the Socialist Party of the Netherlands since 1999, and though he now lives in France, continues to work as a translator for the party. He is a former official of the United European Left Group in the European Parliament, and edits...
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