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7. From the United Nations to a World Transformed

The Special Relationship is back! After a hectic summer period Aaron and Freddie are back to discuss the state of Left politics from London to New York. You can also find this podcast on Apple Podcasts. Aaron’s article for openDemocracy: The fight for climate justice will not be won inside the halls of power – […]

by Aaron White

Naomi Klein: “The moral crisis is inextricable from the ecological crisis”

This piece was originally published by openDemocracy. For the past two decades, Naomi Klein has been a leading voice exposing the social and environmental injustices of neoliberal capitalism. From revealing the appalling conditions experienced by those working at the bottom of the global supply chain, to documenting the ‘shock doctrine’ agenda imposed by disaster capitalists […]

by Freddie Stuart

How facial recognition technology is bringing surveillance capitalism to our streets

This piece was written for and published by openDemocracy’s new ourEconomy section. The original can be found here. Facial recognition cameras are bringing the datafication of the internet to the real world, threatening our right to privacy and public space. Last month it was revealed by the Financial Times that facial recognition cameras had been used to […]

by Freddie Stuart

Breaking the Brexit Binary: The Future of Democratic Internationalism

If internationalism is going to oust isolationism in Britain it needs to do more than present itself as the moral alternative to Brexit – we need tangible proposals for both the future of Europe and a wider project for a progressive global international. Breaking the Brexit Binary With the Brexit debacle still very much unresolved, […]

by Aaron White

Subversive Space: The Effectivity of Occupy Wall Street

To help contextualize the Gilets Jaunes protests in France, it is useful to return to an analysis of the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 and the theories of Guy Debord and Henri Lefebvre to understand the effectivity of urban mobilizations that simplify the political space and creatively critique the dominant ideology. The Occupy Wall […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Contradictions of Capital

The wealth disparity of the world we live in today is unlike any recorded in living memory. The centralisation of wealth has seen global society fractured, and the widening of political fault lines. The result is a struggle between those with a monopoly on wealth, and those without access to its rewards; but it is […]

by Freddie Stuart

TWT: A Return to People Politics

I have been lucky enough in recent weeks to attend a number of events organised or supported by the British left-wing political organisation Momentum, and see for myself the political gusto of the Corybnite movement. It is a zeitgeist to behold. Aaron White recently authored a column detailing the unique aesthetics of Momentum’s The World Transformed (TWT) conference […]