In his latest book Rupturing the Dialectic: The Struggle against Work, Money and Financialization, Harry Cleaver makes an emphatic case for the importance of a continuing focus on class struggle and here in particular the role of the working class rather than [...]
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In response to the Eurozone crisis, austerity and restructuring has been imposed on the European Union’s (EU) peripheral member states in order to receive financial bailout loans. And yet, workers have not simply accepted these restructuring pressures. They have organised and fought back [...]
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In his remarkable collection of essays Theory As History, Jairus Banaji makes two significant claims about how to conceptualise capitalism and our historical understanding of it. First, capitalism as a mode of production cannot be reduced to the specific form of exploitation around wage [...]
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At the next World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Toronto/Canada (15-21 July 2018), I am organising a panel on the topic ‘Free Trade, Labour Movements and the Search for Alternatives’. This call for Papers is open until 30 September and you can submit your proposals [...]
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On Thursday, 11 May 2017, George Kokkinidis, Leicester University, gave a seminar at the Nottingham Sumac Centre on the objectives and principles of Greek Solidarity Co-ops in the ongoing crisis. While Greece gave in to the restructuring demands by the European Union (EU) in the summer of [...]
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UNRAVELLING THE POLITICS OF DISARRAY
Fifth Annual Postgraduate Conference in Politics and International Relations
University of Nottingham, 15th June 2017
Clive Granger Building, University Park
The new challenges facing societies across the globe have dismantled [...]
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Brexit demonstrated clearly what many had perceived to be impossible: European integration is reversible. The potential breakup of the European Union (EU) has been welcomed by people on the political right as well as some on the left. While the former hail the return of national sovereignty, [...]
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China is generally regarded as the new economic powerhouse in the global political economy. Some even talk of an emerging power, which may in time replace the US as the global economy’s hegemon. And yet, there is a dark underside to this ‘miracle’ in the form of workers’ long hours, low pay [...]
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