Leigh Phillips
Leigh Phillips is a regular Red Pepper writer and was previously a Brussels-based journalist and Red Pepper's Europe correspondent.
Recent articles ▾
Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup
Leigh Phillips looks at Richard Dawkins’ proposal to put scientists instead of bishops in the House of Lords
Leigh Phillips says that the idea of 'showing respect for the dead' seems to be somewhat selective
Andrew Bowman and Leigh Phillips look at how central banks have used the crisis to carve out a new role – from propping up bankers to toppling governments
Leigh Phillips argues that the radical privatisation of education is leading to creationist teaching in US classrooms
Leigh Phillips examines the response from former European Central Bank chief, Jean-Claude Trichet on how to solve the eurocrisis
Imagine an app that would tell bosses which of his workers was most likely to want to join a union. Leigh Phillips writes on the creepier side of new technologies
Leigh Philips reviews Castro by Reinhard Kleist
Leigh Phillips reviews Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson
Leigh Phillips talked to Debtocracy director Aris Chatzistefanou about the left and the current situation in Greece
The bail-out has been the perfect excuse for Europe to bypass Portuguese citizens entirely, says Leigh Phillips
In the biggest shift of powers to the EU in 50 years, under Europe’s new system of ‘economic governance’, Brussels gets a veto over all wage, public spending, and taxation decisions
Austerity could spell the end for the euro, argues Leigh Phillips
Leigh Phillips on Catherine Ashton and the EU's response to the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.
Leigh Phillips traces the emergence of comic-book journalism
As austerity bites across Europe, Leigh Phillips surveys the resistance
Leigh Phillips on the current state of the French trade union movements
The Roma are experiencing a fresh wave of repression across Europe. Leigh Phillips reports
The EU's college of cardinals has picked its first pope, writes Leigh Phillips.
So why aren't we angry?
While the Left Party in Germany scored 12 per cent in the recent Bundestag elections, in the rest of eastern Europe the left still languishes in the post-Soviet doldrums. Leigh Phillips spoke to Stefan Zgliczynski and Jane Hardy about its prospects
Leigh Phillips analyses the far left results in the recent German, Portugese and Greek elections
Cohn-Bendit's Europe Ecologie victory in France emboldens the Green right across Europe but does it also mean the death of traditional green principles asks Leigh Philips
If the collapse of capitalism can't improve the left's chances, what will? {Red Pepper's} Europe correspondent, Leigh Phillips, surveys the political landscape after the European elections
Almost 500 million people were entitled to vote in this year's European elections. Yet between the lobbyists and the bureaucrats, it's hard to claim the EU is a continental-scale democracy. Leigh Phillips asks who pulls the strings in Europe, and what we can do about it
Geoffrey Millard, 25, a former US Army sergeant, is president of the Washington DC chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the War. He spoke to Leigh Phillips about how he became an activist in the anti-war movement
The way the internet works at the moment, you can access a blog by an anti-war teenager from Utah on an equal footing with the website of the US defence department. But all that could change if some of the big internet service providers get their way. Leigh Phillips warns of the threat to the internet as we know it
