Farewell from NLP
by The Editors
New Left Project has closed. Here the editors offer some parting reflections on their experiences running the site.
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New Left Project has closed. Here the editors offer some parting reflections on their experiences running the site.
What are the key features and dynamics of the global political economy that the left needs to understand?
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In the midst of increasing anti-immigration rhetoric and policy, people continue to resist, dissent and formulate alternative narratives.
Two years after the government's 'Go Home' vans, an increasingly hostile environment has created a form of cultural politics that dehumanises and circulates fear.
Tim DiMuzio discusses his book, 'The 1% and the Rest of Us: A Political Economy of Dominant Ownership' with NLP's Tom Mills.
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On her 100th birthday, Christian Høgsbjerg pays tribute to the life of Chinese-American political activist, Grace Lee Boggs.
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Contemporary counter-extremism policies targeting British Muslims are rooted in the Cold War opposition to détente.
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With the Labour Party still in reeling in the wake of May's disaster, we spoke to former front-bench Labour MP Bryan Gould - formerly one of the party's most prominent critics of economic orthodoxy - about what went wrong.
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Speculative fiction has been mired in controversy over race in recent months but missing from the conversation has been the reality that the genre has never been the province of 'the West' alone.
In an era of constrained public finances, only ideology prevents us from taking measures such as rent controls that are consistent with both deficit reduction and social justice.
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Has US power in the Middle East weakened and is this responsible for an increase in violence?
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The only international fact-finding delegation granted access to Gaza following Israel’s 2014 assault on the territory, Operation Protective Edge, found evidence of grave legal violations by Israeli...
A guest post from Clifford Singer* Are you 'Old Labour' or 'New Labour'? For 'wealth creators' or against them? A supporter of 'aspiration' or not? The whole debate around Labour’s future...
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A guest post from David Wearing. I will try and be constructive on what is, by any measure, a truly horrible morning. We’re now going to have to recognise the scale of challenge. Yes, we were...
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A guest post from David Wearing. I've voted according to the same basic rules wherever in the country I've lived: (1) Vote tactically to avoid the least bad outcome. (2) Boost a proper left...
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Like neighbouring Streatham, Brixton was at one stage an affluent middle class suburb. But for decades it has been a hub for Londoners of African-Caribbean descent, who began to settle there after...
In a recent article for Truthdig, I examined the transcripts of several European parliamentary resolutions and debates about recognising Palestine. They revealed overwhelming support for a...
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Read an interesting article last night in the Sociological Review on attitudes to poverty in working-class Teesside. It was published in 2013 and based on 60 interviews conducted between 2008 and...
A big day for Gadi Eisenkot, as he is sworn in as the new chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Eisenkot has decades of experience enforcing Israeli rule in places that aren’t Israel,...
Roger Cohen, America's Jonathan Freedland, claims that ‘the fundamental issue’ in Israel’s forthcoming election is ‘whether Israel can return to the Zionism of the founders of the modern state and...
A guest post from Natalie Sharples* Tax is a hot topic. From the political parties to the Archbishop of Canterbury, today everyone is talking tough on corporate tax dodgers. But whilst words are...
A series of articles on the history and politics of race and class in Britain, based around Satnam Virdee’s new book, ‘Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider’ (2014).
Can we move beyond simple narratives in our politics and media to see the complex realities of immigration?
What are the problems with contemporary urban living and how can we resist and argue for alternatives to the neoliberal city?
Wit, provocateur, sharp social satirist. Oscar Wilde was, famously, all these things, but he was also a highly engaged participant in the radical political circles of late Victorian London. Nowhere was his stature as a serious political thinker more evident than in his 1891 essay, ‘The Soul of Man under Socialism.’