Tag: communism
Downstream: The Truth About the GDR | Aaron Meets Katja Hoyer
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the experiment of communist East Germany drew to an end. Yet for a time it was a successful project, raising living standards against massive odds and providing stability for the first time in half a century. So is it time to re-assess Europe’s most wealthy, and advanced […]
Analysis: Italy’s Far Right Is About to Win Big As Unelected Government Falls
by Matteo Tiratelli
ACFM: Trip 21: Unity and Difference
Analysis: For David Graeber, Theory and Action Were Inseparable
by Thomas Swann
Opinion: Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of
by Aaron Bastani
Analysis: Did China Just End Extreme Poverty?
by Aaron Bastani
ACFM: #ACFM Microdose: Jeremy Gilbert on Folk Music
Downstream: When Will China Be the World’s Most Powerful Country? Interview With Martin Jacques
Will the 2020s be the decade when power decisively shifts from the United States to China? How important is the country’s rise in broader historic context – and is that why we are seeing an emerging Cold War between Washington and Beijing? And do appeals to a ‘civilisation-state’ undermine the power of universal values and […]
Novara FM: Capital, Care and Crisis
Novara FM: Ten Years of #NovaraFM
Novara FM: After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia
Novara FM: Nightmarch: The Inner World of the Naxalites
Alpa Shah spent seven nights on a secret march with communist guerrillas in India. She joins James Butler to tell their story.
Obituary: An Everyday Anarchist: David Graeber, 1961-2020
by Paul Mason
David Graeber - anthropologist, author, anarchist and friend to many - died this week in Venice aged 59. A lifelong fighter for social justice, his ultimate achievement will be in the “everyday communist society” we create, writes Paul Mason.
Opinion: Trump’s Attack on ‘Anarchists’ Is Just the Latest Red Scare
by Ruth Kinna, Matthew S Adams and Thomas Swann
The spectre of anarchism, invoked by Donald Trump and repeated without challenge in the mainstream media, reinforces the strategic demonisation of movements like Black Lives Matter that expose and mobilise against persistent injustices, write Ruth Kinna, Matthew S Adams and Thomas Swann.
The Bastani Factor: Victims of Anti-Communism with Vincent Bevins
Aaron Bastani interviews author of 'Jakarta Method', Vincent Bevins, to examine the historic legacy of anti-communism, and the murder programs done in its name.
The Bastani Factor: Victims of Anti-Communism With Vincent Bevins
The historic sins of communism and fascism are well documented. Often ignored, however, is murder and violence done in the name of anti-communism, and how this underpinned new forms of empire during the Cold War. Aaron Bastani interviews author of ‘Jakarta Method’, Vincent Bevins, to examine the historic legacy of anti-communism, and the murder programs […]
The Bastani Factor: Humankind: a Hopeful History – With Rutger Bregman
Last year Davos viral sensation Rutger Bregman toured the tv studios of Britain finding that “on average, British journalists are the least curious of all.” He found just one exception to this rule, his interview with Aaron Bastani for Novara Media. Rutger is back, this time promoting his new book Humankind which argues that altruism […]