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...
17 June, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Politics, Racism
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has spent his academic life mapping the social, political and medical geographies of Britain, concentrating on inequality and differences in life chances. He is the author of Injustice: Why Social Inequality...
14 June, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Politics
Danny Dorling is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. He has spent his academic life mapping the social, political and medical geographies of Britain, concentrating on inequality and differences in life chances. He is the author of Injustice: Why Social Inequality...
12 May, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, International
Neoliberalism was originally the ruling class response to the return of crisis in 1973/4, after the Great Boom. The extent to which it was successfully imposed in a particular country depended on the extent to which the power of organised labour had been reduced. Where it had not been, or...
09 May, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, International
Offshore tax havens played a central role in causing the global financial crisis. And almost nobody has noticed. The first reason why tax havens helped cause the crisis is that they offered banks a get-out-of-regulation-free card. In short: if you can’t do it at home, go offshore and do it...
01 May, 2011 // Category: Activism, Economy, Politics
The session of Prime Minister’s Questions held on 27 April is likely to be remembered for David Cameron’s casually sexist put-down of a Labour shadow minister during an exchange on health service reforms. However, the bigger story of the day, and a probable contributing factor towards...
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