21 May, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Media, Politics, The Right
Last week Boris Johnson wrote an opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph in which he explicitly called for the appointment of a free-market, pro-business Tory to succeed the outgoing BBC Director-General Mark Thompson. This new Director-General, Johnson said, must change the BBC, which he...
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...
20 April, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, International, Terror/War
The increasingly close relationship between Google and the US “democracy promotion” apparatus recently took a new turn with the launch of a new, private, non-profit organisation designed to leverage the resources of major US corporations in manipulating democratic movements in (initially) four...
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...
09 April, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, History, International, Vision/Strategy
As a university lecturer, I often find that my students take today’s dominant economic ideology – namely, neoliberalism – for granted as natural and inevitable. This is not entirely surprising given that most of them were born in the early 1990s, for neoliberalism is all that they have known. In...
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...
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...
13 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Culture, Media
In an article in early 2011 the Deterritorial Support Group wrote that those judging political activism from afar, detached from real life in city streets, could be “forgiven for thinking that the prime concern of class struggle today is social media”. This judgement could only have been...
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...
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