17 May, 2012 // Category: Activism, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? talked to Ed Lewis and Samuel Grove about the status of capitalist realism, social media and the challenges for the left today. [Editor's note: this piece was mistakenly billed as 'Part 1' of a two part interview. However, what...
14 May, 2012 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
Simon Hardy is socialist activist and writer and is a founding member of Anticapitalist Initiative, a new organisation for the UK radical left. He spoke to NLP's Ed Lewis about why he believes a new project of this kind is needed. Tell us about the origins of Anticapitalist Initiative and what...
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...
30 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last month New Left Project published an edition of Dan Hind's new pamphlet, Common Sense: Occupation, Assembly and the Future of Liberty, which makes a powerful case for generalising the model of public meetings and discussion popularised by the Occupy movement, to empower 'the 99%' to reclaim...
26 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Politics
Development officer, community mobilizer, public defender – the Ugandan MP wears many caps. This situation applies across much of sub-Saharan Africa, where acting as representative on a national assembly may rank only second among an MP’s chief concerns. This article takes a closer look at the...
24 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Environment
There is a difference between radicals and reformers. Radicals believe we need fundamental “system change” because as long as the system is left in place it will prove impossible to solve important problems. Absent system change, radicals believe solutions can only be partial and remain...
15 April, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Foreign policy, International
In December Egyptian prosecutors and police raided 17 offices of 10 groups identifying themselves as “pro-democracy” NGOs, including 4 US based agencies. Fourty three people, including 16 US citizens, were accused of failing to register with the government and financing the April 6th protest...
30 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Vision/Strategy
This week saw the online launch of a new international organisation for radical social transformation, the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (IOPS). Two of the founding members, Michael Albert of ZNet and Jason Chrysostomou of Project for a Participatory Society UK, spoke to...
29 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last week NLP attended the launch of a new book, Public Service on the Brink – a timely edited collection describing the denigration of the public service ethos over the last three decades. Tom Mills spoke to one of the book’s contributors, the PCS’s General Secretary Mark Serwotka, about the...
28 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Media, Racism
Stephen Harper is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research interests span political and social issues in British television, critical theory and cultural geopolitics. He has written academic articles on a wide range of subjects including British...
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