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  • The drip-by-drip erosion of our liberties in an age of austerity

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes

  • Why I can’t take Osborne or Cameron seriously when they promise to ‘wage war’ on tax evasion & avoidance

  • From passion to profit: exploitation under neoliberalism, or, how seriously should we take latte art?

  • Misdirection as technique of governance, or, “it’s student activists attacking freedom of speech, not the state!”

  • David Cameron as neoliberal prophet

  • CfP: Thinking Beyond Capitalism, Belgrade, June 24-26, 2015

  • What will post-democracy look like?

  • 10 political cliches that make me want to smash my radio

  • The corporate capture of democracy

  • The exciting future of governance

  • The Overton Window

  • David Cameron: “I’m hardcore and I know the score, I am disgusted by the poor”

  • Revisiting the Riots – Riots Reframed film screening

  • Workshop 11-12th November 2014 – ‘Occupying Politics in a Time of Alterity’

  • The political socialisation of Barack Obama

  • What will neo-neoliberal ideology look like?

  • Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation

  • Ever wondered about how Tony Blair interprets his own drift towards right-wing politics?

  • Adopting a homeless person

  • Cfp “The ‘Spaces and Places’ of Professional Work in the Post-crisis Economy” – RC52 ‘Sociology of Professional Groups’ Interim Conference, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, 19-21 March 2015

  • The next phase of post-democracy? Political disagreement becoming personal prejudice, or, stop being racist against the Tories

  • Owen Jones – The Establishment And How They Get Away With It

  • The World Cup in Brazil and the Political Economy of Mega Events

  • The politics of oil ownership

  • Making the ‘Precariat’: Unemployment, Insecurity and Work-Poor Young Adults in Harsh Economic Conditions

  • From “I’m alright, Jack” to “Fuck you, Jack”

  • CfP: Plunging into Turmoil: Social Sciences and the Crisis, Lisbon, 16-17 October, 2014

  • CfP: Youth Activism and Resistance Conference

  • The rise of think tanks

  • Nigel Farage vs. Tony Blair

  • “Stop closing down the debate!”: some thoughts on racism, free speech and UKIP

  • George Galloway: “I don’t want your fucking vote”

  • 31 things the current UK government have privatised or want to privatise

  • Floria Charity harassed by police and couple fined $746 for feeding homeless people

  • DIY Citizenship – A Symposium: Critical Making, Activism & Design

  • The Performativity of Social Movements (CC @TGJBrock)

  • CfP: How capitalism survives? A Marxist-Feminist perspective

  • Elizabeth Warren for President

  • The professionalisation of charities

  • Paul Krugman discusses Piketty with Bill Moyers

  • Paul Krugman Makes Rand Paul’s Head Explode With Facts In ‘Big Government’ Debate

  • Quantifying the time wasted by quasi-market systems

  • Tony Blair: ‘I say lies’

  • Caring in Crisis? Communications and Public Reactions to Humanitarian Crises and International Development Causes

  • Man Walks Out Of Question Time Studio Over Immigration Row

  • The politics of austerity

  • Is the state shrinking? Yes, even if John Redwood says it isn’t

  • Austerity comes to the Ukraine

  • The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies

  • Attila the Stockbroker on Bob Crow

  • Lacuna – new magazine on human rights

  • Tony Benn – The issue is Thatcher

  • The Iraq war: 10 years on

  • A public address to the British Government by Anonymous

  • Cameron’s declaration that “money is no object” has destroyed his austerity message

  • Paper Session Conceptualizing an Unequal Order: Historical Perspectives on the North-South Divide

  • New to Fox news: “Ask a Communist!”

  • Elizabeth Warren is pretty fantastic (as politicians go)

  • CfP: Sensing War, deadline 14 Feb 2014

  • Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity – places available for participants

  • Leo Panitch on Syriza’s success

  • The Progressive War on the 1%

  • What would a viable left-wing populist agenda for the UK look like?

  • Capitalism Is The Crisis

  • Noam Chomsky on “What is Anarchism?”

  • Call for papers – social movements and memories

  • The return of absolute poverty in the UK

  • Putin: “some of my best friends are gay”

  • The increasingly fuzzy boundary between public and private security

  • CfP: Young People, Precarious Work and Trade Unionism

  • Call for Papers: Futures in Question conference

  • CfP: ‘Where Now for Social Justice?’

  • CFP: “Inclusionary Youth Geographies: Changes, Challenges and Responsibilities”, IGU Krakow 2014

  • Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

  • Call for Papers -1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media – Where Are We Now? [Reopened due to relocation]

  • The coming war on charity?

  • The uk economy can no longer create enough jobs that pay well enough to keep people off benefits

  • CfP: Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

  • Call for Papers -1984: Freedom and Censorship in the Media – Where Are We Now?

  • Call for Papers on Young People, Precarious Work and Trade Unionism

  • The Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies (REPS) PhD Network

  • Bullets and batons in the US and Ukraine

  • CfP: Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

  • Boris Johnson and the End of History

  • Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: Reflections, Repercussions and Reverberations

  • Uncomfortable positions in local government: negotiating cohesion, inequality and change – Hannah Jones – Seminar tomorrow

  • “Only marxists and conmen want to cap energy prices!”

  • CfP: Social and Political Critique in the Age of Austerity

  • CfP: DEADLINE FRIDAY: Mapping the Field: Race, Racism and Ethnicity 31st January

  • The latent authoritarianism of libertarian politics

  • Imposing ‘market discipline’ on public services

  • The Slow Death of Press Freedom?

  • Economists are horrible people

  • So what do the Tea Party do now?

  • The Popularity of Public Ownership

  • The coming UK culture wars?

  • Inside the Mind of the Republican Party

  • If America has a communist President then perhaps Britain could have a socialist Prime Minister?

  • Activists fight for right to the city – Britons, Africans unite in urban struggles

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