19 October, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy
"Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who makes its laws". -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1838 The great challenge for the left today, not least the UK labour party, is posing a genuine alternative to the economics of austerity that currently dominates policy across...
14 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Vision/Strategy
The Occupy movement that has spread with remarkable speed across the U.S. is coming to London tomorrow. New Left Project will be running a series of articles looking at issues of relevance to the protest, including the role of the financial system in the economic crisis, alternative ways of doing...
06 October, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Foreign policy, International
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
28 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Foreign policy, International
Greg Muttitt worked for many years with the arts and social justice charity Platform, exposing the global impact of the oil industry. His first book, based on almost a decade of research, is Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq. It provides a forensic, behind-the-scenes account of...
01 September, 2011 // Category: Economy, History, Philosophy and Theory
David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the history and evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on...
29 August, 2011 // Category: Economy, History, Philosophy and Theory
David Graeber is a Reader of Anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5000 Years, has just been published in the UK. It looks at the evolution of debt as both a moral and an economic concept, drawing on anthropological evidence...
12 August, 2011 // Category: Culture, Economy, Gender equality, Philosophy and Theory, Vision/Strategy
Jonathan Rutherford is professor of cultural studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings journal. He is co-editor of The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox as well as author and editor of books on culture, gender and politics. He spoke to Edward Lewis about the challenges...
27 July, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Europe, International
Hungary, 2010. A new conservative government comes to office with a radical, largely undeclared programme. It embarks on plans to ‘reform’ the public sector, involving massive numbers of redundancies in government, and one-sided changes to what it describes as an over-generous pension scheme....
04 July, 2011 // Category: Culture, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Media
Owen Jones is a union lobbyist turned political commentator. He has written for a wide range of publications and has been prominent on television and radio since the publication of his new book, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (Verso, June 2011). Recently he caught up with Sam Grove to...
22 June, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Europe, International, Politics, Vision/Strategy
The only way to describe recent developments in Greece is to refer to a peaceful popular insurrection that has led to an open political crisis. The mass gatherings at city squares at the centres of all major Greek cities continue to gather momentum. Since the 25th of May, Athens and most Greek...
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