5 Videos on the Last 100 Years of Housing in the UK
by Novara Reporters
The housing crisis in the UK is becoming an unavoidable issue for mainstream politicians and media alike, and is set to remain a key agenda item over the coming years. Listed below are five short videos examining themes which link James Butler’s interview with a Balfron Tower evictee, the recent acclaimed LRB article ‘Where will we […]
5 Reasons Gypsies and Travellers Hate Eric Pickles (and Why You Should Too)
by Craig McVegas
From the violent eviction of travellers from Dale Farm in 2011 to more recent scaremongering over an influx of Roma ‘child snatchers’ and ‘beggars’ over the New Year, Travellers and Gypsies continue to be the media’s favourite folk devils and antiziganism shows no signs of ceasing to be the most socially acceptable form of racism. […]
Bang On The Money: Four More Reasons to Support the Universal Basic Income
by Adam Ramsay
Andrew Dolan recently wrote a list of seven reasons to support a universal basic income. It has been well received and I agree with nearly all of it. Below are four more reasons to support the UBI. 1. We all have a right to the shared bounty of the land. Wealth is made from a […]
Novara FM: Future Imperfect: LGBT History Month Special
Workplace Reappropriation: An 8-Point Guide for the Unfulfilled
by The Secret Employee
Reappropriation is when an individual or group reclaims something which rightfully belongs to them without consent. Workplace reappopriation amounts to a worker or group of workers taking back the products of their labour within the workplace. In short, stealing from work. In this guide ‘The Secret Employee’ offers 8 tips on thinking it through, planning […]
4 Reasons the Privatization of Sussex University Services Affects Us All
by Alia Al Ghussain
The anti-privatization campaign at Sussex University has been one of the catalysts for a recent resurgence in political activity on campuses across the UK. A major hurdle Sussex campaigners have had to overcome is conveying to fellow students the consequences that privatization of university services has – for all of us. Here, Alia Al Ghussain […]
Do They Owe Us a Living? 7 Reasons the Universal Basic Income is Worth Fighting For.
by Andrew Dolan
The Universal Basic Income (UBI) – sometimes called the Unconditional Basic Income, Citizens’ Income or Social Wage – has in recent times become a focus of economic discussion across the political spectrum. While column inches in the Financial Times and The Economist have been racking up, academics such as Stuart White have been articulating how […]
Novara FM: IndyRef: What Could a ‘Yes’ Vote Mean North, and South, of the Border?
4 Things the Wythenshawe and Sale East By-election Tell Us (About English Party Politics)
by Aaron Bastani
The recent death of Labour MP Paul Goggins recently triggered a by-election in Wythenshawe and Sale East. The vote took place yesterday with the results being finally declared in the early hours of this morning. What do those results tell us, if anything, about where the political parties stand ahead of May’s elections to the European […]
3 Years On… 7 Fragments on the Latest Winter Rebellions
by Craig McVegas
Next to the storming of Millbank, 9th December 2010 arguably saw the most notable ‘moment of excess’ of the Coalition-era student movement. Over the course of about ten hours, thousands of young students from universities, colleges and schools found themselves on the wrong end of police batons, riot shields and horse charges. Suddenly, aggressively, masses […]
12 Reasons Why England Can’t Ignore Scotland’s #Indyref
by Adam Ramsay
On Monday Novara Wire published this article by Nicola Seth-Smith. Seth-Smith sought to highlight why those in England should care about this year’s referendum on Scottish independence and some of the more radical possibilities of any vote to leave the union. Below, Adam Ramsay makes his own contribution as to why those in England can’t […]