“In a society like ours in which people tend to be very isolated and neighbourhoods are broken down, community structures have broken down, people are kind of alone,” writes Noam Chomsky. Speaking in the run-up to International Workers Day, the renowned academic outlined the root of this isolation as observed […]
I am writing to you from the luxurious couch at Starbucks in the courtyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral. I work just down Ludgate Hill at a well known Spanish financial institution (let’s just say the name sounds like ‘panderer’) as a personal finance manager and have been coming here for […]
“If the Man was sticking it to me, well then I’d stick it to the Man” Health is everywhere right now. With the Olympics on the horizon, for good or bad (and let’s face it – that sponsorship rollcall is a who’s who of rotters), every man, woman, child and […]
Political movements around the world seem to agree that our current democratic model is broken. In using alternative modes of decision-making, consensus has become an integral element of process. However, critics have said seeking full consensus prevents progress, particularly in the second stage of a movement. Do these downsides outweigh […]
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face… And now abideth faith, hope, charity… but the greatest of these is charity.” (I Corinthians 13:12-13) Through the dark glass of international politics, witness a curious spectacle. Indian politicians are calling for India to refuse British aid, whilst […]
Paul Mason is Economics Editor of BBC Newsnight and the author of several books including Meltdown and Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere. The OT caught up with Paul to get his views on the trajectory of the financial crisis and the unrest it has helped spawn, the Occupy movement’s successes […]
Reaping the Whirlwind: Nigel Lawson and the ’80s Roots of the Economic Crisis – The OT is given a tour of Britain’s political ruins by Robin Ramsay, editor and publisher of Lobster Magazine and author of The Rise of New Labour. The Occupied Times: If you were to pick one event […]
Mark Fisher is an author, political and cultural theorist and a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths. The OT asked Mark about the concept behind his book ‘Capitalist Realism’, his thoughts on the culture of neoliberalism and his assessment of the global unrest that has sprung up over the last two years. […]
Celebration of the international labour movement across the globe has taken on many different moods depending upon the political context of the time, sometimes celebratory, at other times volatile. Today, the stakes are high, and the struggle is of vital importance. May Day originated as a commemoration of the Haymarket […]
Visionary economist Harry Shutt, author of ‘Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for a post-capitalist era’, tells it how he sees it to The Occupied Times. Occupied Times: Tell us about the situation in Greece – are we seeing a corporate takeover? Harry Shutt: In Greece, the global financial ‘syndicate’ (including […]