09 May, 2012 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, The Right
Let’s start with a question: if I asked you to think of a place that sums up what’s wrong with Britain, where would you choose? For some people, it’s the City of London: all those bankers who broke the economy just a few years ago and are now back to business as usual - complete, of course, with...
03 May, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Gender equality
The first lap dancing club in the UK opened in 1995. Since then lap dancing has become part of mainstream culture, with the 300+ lap dancing clubs nationwide visited by well-known figures such as Stephen Hawkings and Rihanna. Jennifer Hayashi Danns, 28, worked as a lap dancer for two years...
29 March, 2012 // Category: Activism, Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Politics, Vision/Strategy
Last week NLP attended the launch of a new book, Public Service on the Brink – a timely edited collection describing the denigration of the public service ethos over the last three decades. Tom Mills spoke to one of the book’s contributors, the PCS’s General Secretary Mark Serwotka, about the...
22 March, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Vision/Strategy
“The most important thing a worker ever produces is himself….” -Raymond Williams I’ve lived in eight cities over the past seven years; worked for at least twelve employers in a variety of industries with and without pay; gone without healthcare, unemployment insurance, and a stable...
19 March, 2012 // Category: Education, Employment & Welfare
Parents of young children, currently hard-pressed to meet the £15,000 sometimes required to meet annual full-time childcare costs in the UK, might be surprised by a recent initiative from the soft-left grouplet Next Generation Labour. Next Generation Labour call for a '24 hour National Childcare...
15 March, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Labour movement, Philosophy and Theory
Last month we published an article by Richard Seymour, 'We are All Precarious - On the Concept of the "Precariat" and its Misuses', criticising conventional analyses of the precariat and arguing for its re-conceptualisation as a 'populist interpellation' arising from the conditions generated by...
14 March, 2012 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Employment & Welfare, History, International, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin and the co-editor with Philip Mirowski of The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In the second of a two part interview he spoke to NLP’s Tom Mills about the relationship between...
02 March, 2012 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, History, Vision/Strategy
Profiteering energy companies raise average bills to record levels. Train fares climb up to 8% above inflation. Rents in places like London are at an all time high. All this against a background of real wage stagnation, increasing unemployment and creeping inflation: what has the British left’s...
16 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Labour movement
The public sector pensions dispute is at a crucial juncture. The outcome is of huge importance to the working class. A victory would fuel the resurgence of working class confidence and organisation and encourage wider resistance to the Con-Dem government’s austerity programme. The assault which...
15 February, 2012 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Philosophy and Theory, Politics, The Right
'Our challenge to be a young country is not just economic, it is social and moral. Look at 'the wreckage of our broken society.' Tony Blair, 1995 'What is it I am really passionate about? It is actually social recovery as well as economic recovery. I think we need a social recovery, because as...
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