28 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Religion
The Occupy London camp outside Saint Paul’s Cathedral was unique. No other protest in hundreds of cities across the world was so passionately engaged with the church. That gave the church a chance to learn from the movement. In an essay called “The Judgement of the World” Archbishop Rowan...
23 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Culture, Vision/Strategy
Earlier this month New Left Project helped launch Paul Mason's thought-provoking account of the popular struggles that defined 2011. We've been publishing a series of articles and interviews that continue the discussion about issues raised in the book—the political importance of the 'graduate...
16 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement
The public sector pensions dispute is at a crucial juncture. The outcome is of huge importance to the working class. A victory would fuel the resurgence of working class confidence and organisation and encourage wider resistance to the Con-Dem government’s austerity programme. The assault which...
08 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Gender equality, Vision/Strategy
Emma Dowling was a panellist in one of the discussions at last week's event to mark the publication of Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere by Paul Mason. Earlier that day, she discussed her analysis with NLP co-editor John Brissenden. Your work seems to be very wide-ranging, eclectic almost, and I...
31 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, International, Terror/War
Sakurai Kunitoshi is a member of the Okinawan Environmental Network, professor (and until 2010 the President) of Okinawa University, and a Councilor of the Japan Society of Impact Assessment. He spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty on the history and impact of US military basing in Okinawa. What is the...
30 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Book Review, International
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, by Paul Mason, Verso, 2012, p237 Anyone who experienced first-hand the student occupations and protests at the back end of 2010 will find themselves – upon reading the chapter on that subject in Paul Mason’s new book, 'Why It's...
27 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Economy
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at Portland State University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy and he is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. In the first of a series of regular columns for NLP Hahnel considers whether the...
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. ...
06 January, 2012 // Category: Activism, Vision/Strategy
The beginning of the new year seems an appropriate time to reflect upon the progress, and potential, of what must surely rank as one of the most astonishing and encouraging developments of 2011: the emergence and rapid spread of the Occupy movement. Most participants in, and observers of, the...
02 December, 2011 // Category: Activism, Environment, International, Vision/Strategy
As the Durban Climate Change Conference (COP 17) continues, we present the views of a range of international climate justice activists and writers on where the movement should go from here. Contributors were asked to produce a short response to the following question: The current outlook for...
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