15 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Gender equality
TThis article is from issue 49 of the journal Soundings and is available online exclusively at NLP. Since the Coalition government was 'elected' in the United Kingdom in May 2010, we have opened our newspapers each day to litanies of cuts to services - in health care; domestic violence...
08 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
The dramatic scenes in English cities last August of burning buildings, bands of hooded and masked youths pillaging stores, and thousands of police patrolling major streets in riot gear were bound to trigger rash statements and knee-jerk reactions. Set against the political backdrop of steep...
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...
05 December, 2011 // Category: Economy, Foreign policy, International
As part of our series of material related to the most recent edition of the Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – New Left Project's Ed Lewis interviewed Adam Hanieh about the international political economy of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Hanieh is a lecturer in development...
03 December, 2011 // Category: Economy
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. To begin, we exclusively present David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we have been serializing over the last three weekends. This is part...
28 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment, International
Twenty Years ago, at the Earth Summit, the world’s Governments signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to create a legally binding framework to address the challenge of climate change. Today, the Green House Gas emissions that contribute to climate change have increased not...
26 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment
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. To begin, we exclusively present David Harvey's contribution to the volume, which we are serializing in six parts over consecutive weekends. You can...
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...
15 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Environment
Larry Lohmann is a scholar and activist who works with The Corner House, a UK-based NGO that supports democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice. As part of NLP’s series of pieces around this year’s Socialist Register – The Crisis and the Left – Lohmann spoke to Ed...
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...
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