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Online debate archive
Where
now for European Social Democracy?
Debate on the future
of social democracy in Europe, organised with Social Europe, with contributors
from across Europe discussing Building the Good Society, a document written
in June 2009 by Labour's Jon Cruddas and Andrea Nahles of the SPD.
Debates
from Autumn 2009
Who
owns the progressive future?
British politics is at a turning point. The
electoral alliance that brought New Labour to power is disintegrating. The popularity
of Cameron's Conservatives is growing. What is the condition of Britain and what
will come next in the political life of the country?
Debates
from autumn 2008
Class and culture
Class has been the central organising principle
in the history of left politics, but in the last four decades new forms of capitalism
have transformed the cultures and social relations of class. The debate explores
these transformations.
Debates
from summer 2008
Cultures of capitalism
An exploration of critical and strategic questions
about contemporary changes in capitalism and modernity. What philosophical, cultural
and theoretical resources do we need to develop new understandings of political
and social transformation?
Debates
from autumn 2007
Left futures
Discussion of elements of an alternative left project
- political economy, identity, ethics - how can these elements be articulated
into an alternative left political project that has philosophical coherence? An
attempt to link the parts to the whole.
Debates from
summer 2006
Supported by the Amiel Trust
and
Middlesex
University Media Department