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...
02 May, 2012 // Category: Culture, Labour movement
Alex Niven is a writer, blogger, and academic from Northumberland. He also edits the Oxonian Review. In an interview with William Farrell he discusses his first book Folk Opposition, which explores the left’s relationship with anti-establishment populism in British culture. What’s wrong with...
07 April, 2012 // Category: Culture, Gender equality
This week we have run a debate abot pornography and feminism between freelance writer and journalist Sarah Ditum and anti-porn academic and activist Gail Dines. In this last part, Dines argues that opposition to porn ultimately derives from a philosophical commitment to equality and the idea that...
03 April, 2012 // Category: Culture, Gender equality
This is the second part of our debate on feminism and pornography between Gail Dines, anti-porn activist and author of Pornland: How Porn is Hijacking Our Sexuality, and Sarah Ditum, a freelance journalist and writer and critic of anti-porn feminism. Here Dines responds to Ditum's opening piece,...
02 April, 2012 // Category: Culture, Gender equality
This week NLP is running a debate about the approach that leftists and feminists should take towards pornography. The debaters are Gail Dines, an anti-porn activist and professor and author of Pornland: How Porn is Hijacking Our Sexuality, and Sarah Ditum, a freelance journalist and writer on...
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...
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...
02 February, 2012 // Category: Culture
The Coalition Government’s long awaited Film Policy Review (published Monday 16th Jan and available here) was overshadowed by David Cameron’s comments during a visit to Pinewood Studios. Cameron summarized the Coalition’s attitude to the cinema in the following way: “Our role, and that of...
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. ...
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...
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