Not falling for it this time
It’s time to shake off forty years of establishment manipulation says Andy Anderson
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Reviews
The State in Capitalist Society by Ralph Miliband (republished by www.merlinpress.co.uk £16.95) Ralph Miliband was a major figure in the marxist revival which became known as the New Left in the 1960s. A founder of New Left Review and the Socialist Register, the State in Capitalist Society (1969) remains a key work of modern marxist […]
Issue 56: whae’s like us?
In Issue 56 we launch a year-long look at other small countries and regions which have similarities to Scotland to explore if there are lessons Scotland can learn – and to try to do something to bridge the political isolation that Scotland suffers in international terms. In this issue we have an analysis of the state of politics in Iceland by party group chairman for the Movement, a member of the Icelandic Parliament, activist and poet Birgitta Jónsdóttir. We also have an overview of left politics in Holland by Tiny Kox, Senator for the Socialist Party in the First Chamber of the Dutch States-General.
Web review
“Princes and priests soon saw an enemy in the press. Type was in their opinion the most serious form that lead could take…. The rich classes – otherwise the conspiring classes – shut out as far as they could all knowledge of their doings, alleging that their object was to prevent the dissemination of ‘heresy […]
Kick Up The Tabloids
SNOW! EH, THAT’S IT
Comment
In this issue we are going to try to delve down below the top-level problems on which everyone now has an opinion and see if it is possible to draw out some of the deeper, fundamental problems of the way we live in the 21st century to see if, in fact, we can clean up our mess after all.
Root of this evil
Neil Davidson argues that it’s not money that got us into this mess - it was the myths we bought with it
Work isn’t working
Isobel Lindsay looks at how ‘work’ is now as much a part of the neoliberal ideology of control as it is about producing things
Why we fight
Alan McKinnon shows that the UK and US ‘defence’ policy is in fact a ‘projection of power’ policy with the primary purpose of defending the commercial interests of transnational companies
No such thing as failure
John Barker shows that the ideological ‘consultants’ who distort public policy are not only unaccountable, they appear to damage everything they touch