Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Engaging the Imperial Mode of Living

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In their powerful book The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism (Verso, 2021), Ulrich Brand and M...
Friday, 24 December 2021

Business as usual: on re-establishing ‘order’ in British politics.

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There is a sense of excitement in the current reporting on developments in British politics. The Labour Party is leading in opinion polls vi...
Thursday, 2 December 2021

Staff working conditions are student learning conditions – more than just a slogan!

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Yet again, staff at universities across the UK are out on strike to defend their working conditions and pensions. Unsurprisingly, university...
Sunday, 31 October 2021

Nothing to Lose but our Chains: reflecting on workers’ key role in resisting capitalist exploitation.

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There is widespread pessimism about workers’ potential to take successful industrial action in the UK today. Structural transformation from ...
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Sunday, 26 September 2021

Our History is the Future: On Indigenous peoples' central role in overcoming capitalism!

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In the autumn of 2016, a large alliance of Indigenous peoples and their non-Indigenous supporters blocked the path of yet another oil pipeli...
Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Is capitalism structurally indifferent to gender?

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A sweep through key arguments about the abstracting logic of capital will yield a common emphasis, which is a stress on the “indifference” o...
Monday, 2 August 2021

The fight over USS pensions and the role of the so-called ‘independent’ pensions regulator

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Yet again, university employers (UUK) and the University and College Union (UCU) are at loggerheads over the future of the sector’s USS pens...