18 January, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Vision/Strategy
The current debate, in the UK and abroad, on the need to cut back the state in order to unleash the power of entrepreneurship and innovation in the private sector, builds upon a stark contrast that is repeatedly drawn by the media, business and libertarian politicians: a dynamic, creative...
22 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
This is the second excerpt from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. The campaign against Tate retaining BP sponsorship has been spearheaded by the arts collective Liberate Tate through a series of performance...
20 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Culture, Environment
In the wake of the news that several of major UK arts institutions have decided to renew sponsorship deals with BP, we present the first of two excerpts from Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil, a new publication that sets out the case against oil sponsorship of the arts. Here, James Marriott...
07 December, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement
Ursula Huws is, amongst other things, the director of the social and economic research consultancy Analytica. As part of NLP’s series of pieces around this year’s Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – Huws spoke to NLP's Ed Lewis about her contribution to the volume, 'Crisis as...
28 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Environment, International, Politics
As the Durban Conference on Climate Change begins, we present the first of several pieces about climate change and the climate justice movement: an extract from the newly published Politics of Climate Justice by the South African activist and academic, Patrick Bond. Here Bond argues that another...
16 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, International, Politics
Political economist Hugo Radice is a Life Fellow at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. In an interview with NLP’s Ed Lewis, he addresses a series of questions on the escalating crisis in the Eurozone. We are being told that the eurozone faces a...
12 November, 2011 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Europe, International, Politics
After four days of bargains and scheming behind closed doors, the pillars of the Greek political system have produced a “national unity government” – a term which isn't a misnomer if one excludes from the “nation” the various left parties, currently polling the same as or above the leading...
12 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Media, Vision/Strategy
Over the next few weeks NLP will present a range of material relating to the most recent edition of Socialist Register - The Crisis and the Left. We kick off with an exclusive presentation of David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we are serializing in six parts over consecutive...
04 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Health
Last month UNICEF released a report into child well-being in the UK, as a follow-up to their study in 2007, which ranked the UK in bottom place out of 21 developed countries for the wellbeing of children. Samia Aziz spoke to Agnes Nairn, who wrote the report, about her findings. Nairn is also the...
31 October, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, History, Politics
Now we know. We are in the midst of a prolonged economic crisis in which the output of the British economy fell by 7.2 per cent and growth has been close to stagnant for the last nine months. Yet Britain’s leading executives have been behaving as if they have personally pioneered an unprecedented...
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