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...
18 December, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Environment
This article is from issue 45 of the journal Soundings and is exclusively available online at NLP. Emissions trading is the EU’s flagship measure for tackling climate change, and it is failing badly. While in theory it provides a cheap and efficient means to limit greenhouse gas reductions within...
25 November, 2010 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Education
The following is the text of a talk I gave at a teach-in at King’s College, Cambridge last Sunday, organised by Cambridge Defend Education. So this hour is billed as a debate between myself and Richard Seymour on the topic of “Cuts – necessity or ideology?”. Well, in the first place,...
16 November, 2010 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy
Life is full of serendipitous moments, as Vodafone executives found out recently when they escaped a gargantuan tax bill. It was something I found out too, when I decided to organise a protest about it in my home city Liverpool. I’d love to portray myself as a gutsy, political firebrand, but the...
05 November, 2010 // Category: Corporate power
To intrude on someone else’s democracy as it reaches electoral fever pitch feels a little insensitive, especially when you are in a room full of Democrats, watching them get pummelled. And yet I found myself in just this situation at The Nation’s offices in downtown New York City on Tuesday...
11 October, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Media
Dan Hind was a journalist and publisher until 2009, when he left publishing to focus on campaigning for media reform. He is the author of The Threat to Reason and, most recently, The Return of the Public. He spoke to Samuel Grove about his proposals for popular participation in the process of...
19 August, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Health
It has become overwhelmingly clear that the Coalition government is using the deficit and the claimed need for “austerity” as a pretext to greatly boost the power of the private sector vis-à-vis the public sector. The main battlefield in their assault is the NHS. The Guardian reports that...
10 August, 2010 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Health
My own contribution to the NLP cuts debate (more of a discussion, as it turns out) comes in two halves. Other contributors have placed some focus on future activism, and the second half of this piece will offer a few points on that subject, specifically on the task of making the political argument...
01 August, 2010 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Environment
“American environmentalism emerged in the context of the most rapid economic expansion in history and matured in the technological culture that capitalism had spawned. To the extent that it has been a response to technology itself, American environmentalism has been shaped by it. And it has been...
15 July, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Foreign policy
The coalition’s commitment to severe spending cuts makes it difficult to predict with any certainty what its foreign policy will look like, although improvements on the status quo seem unlikely. One policy that is becoming increasingly clear, however, is a determination to promote British arms...
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