28 December, 2010 // Category: Activism, Economy, Education, Politics
When he praised the students’ movement as “magnificent”, and credited it with setting an example for the rest of the left to follow in the battle against the Tory-Liberal austerity programme, Unite leader Len McCluskey spoke for a great many of the government’s opponents who drew real hope...
15 December, 2010 // Category: Economy, Education
Ha-Joon Chang is a leading development economist and critic of neoliberalism. His 2002 book Kicking Away the Ladder showed that today’s rich countries became rich by following precisely the policies they now deny to developing countries – his follow-up Bad Samaritans prompted Financial Times...
09 December, 2010 // Category: Activism, Education, Politics
Maeve Mckeown is a Political Theory PhD Student at University College London and has been a participant in UCLOccupation since it began over two weeks ago. She gave NLP’s Edward Lewis an insider’s account of the UCL occupation, increasingly seen as a vital hub of the student movement. Why did you...
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,...
21 November, 2010 // Category: Activism, Education
Later today Cambridge Defend Education is hosting a teach-in at King’s College against the cuts and increased tuition fees. Among those speaking: Alex Callinicos, Stefan Collini, Richard Seymour, Stathis Kouvelakis and NLP’s very own David Wearing. Priyamvada Gopal, English Faculty member at...
15 November, 2010 // Category: Activism, Education
Priyamvada Gopal teaches in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She writes political and cultural comment for the Guardian and is the author of The Indian English Novel: Nation, History and Narration. She spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty on the events at last weeks anti-cuts protest...
15 November, 2010 // Category: Activism, Education
In an article orginally published by America’s leading left-wing magazine and website The Nation (and reproduced with their kind permission), Jennifer O’Mahony examines students’ views on the protest against higher education cuts and tuition fee rises in London last week. Before we take the New...
02 October, 2010 // Category: Activism, Education
Michael Chessum has been active in Free Education, anti-cuts and Living Wage campaigns, as well as anti-war and Palestine solidarity activism. He co-founded the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) last year, and is now Education and Campaigns Officer at UCL Union. In this interview he...
18 March, 2010 // Category: Education
Priyamvada Gopal describes the marketisation of higher education unleashed by New Labour as a result of which the intrinsic value of education is being steadily eroded. Freedom, democracy and widening social participation through education are fine ideas. Especially in other people’s countries...
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