December | 2015 | Novara Media

Long Read: Rewrite or Escape the EU? Two Strategies from Southern Europe

Steve Rushton

Sunday Long Read: The rise of Podemos in last week’s Spanish election brings questions of EU membership back into the frame. What can we learn from Greek and Catalan radicals ahead of the UK’s referendum?

5 Things to You Need to Know About the Spanish Election Results

Javier Moreno Zacarés

Partido Popular came first in yesterday's Spanish election, despite losing a third of its voters. The previously entrenched two-party system has been well and truly cracked open by Podemos and Ciudadanos, while it remains unclear who will govern.

Long Read: ‘No one represents us’: On the Links Between Podemos and the Indignados

Carlos Delclós

Sunday Long Read: Spain goes to the polls today for the first time since 2011 and the year of the indignados. Podemos, often touted as the party of the indignados, has had a difficult year but is on course for a comeback.

Spain Decides: 5 Keys to Understanding the Spanish General Election

Kate Shea Baird

Since 2011 Spain has seen bank bailouts, a massive anti-austerity movement and a strengthened Catalan independence campaign. Here’s a guide to what’s at stake in this weekend’s general election.

4 Reasons Why Clean Energy Must be Public Energy

Archie Davies

Tired ideological tropes and ingrained vested interests are stopping cities from securing clean, democratic and socially just energy systems. It’s time to take our power back.

Terms of Engagement: Terms of Engagement: Democracy

Democracy is something we can all agree on. But what does it actually mean? James Butler looks at the many ways the word gets used politically and what it means to attempt to run a government or an organisation 'democratically'.

Long Read: Coming Home? Labour and the Unions

Edd Mustill

Sunday Long Read: Following Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership election, the Fire Brigades Union has voted to re-affiliate to the party, opening up old and new questions about the nature of the union-Labour link.

Novara FM: What’s Happening In Syria?

On today's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the Syrian civil war and the emergence of ISIL. Has the establishment of a caliphate fundamentally changed the idea of 'political islam' for adherents?

7 Reflections on the Battle of Parliament Square and the 2010 Student Movement

Craig McVegas and Arianna Tassinari

It's five years since the ‘Battle of Parliament Square’, when students marched on parliament to oppose the tripling of tuition fees. Many left bloodied, others radicalised and many more exhausted. Here are some thoughts on what we can learn.

7 Ways in 7 Days We Can Show Solidarity with the People of Syria

Tabitha Bast

Feeling powerless following parliament’s vote to bomb Syria and not sure what to do next? Somewhere between overwhelming hopelessness and heading off to join the YPJ there are a range of everyday acts of solidarity. Here are a week’s worth.

6 Reasons We Need an Intersectional Approach to Climate Change

Maddy Winters

At the recent London Climate March, stewards tried to push the Global South bloc to the back of the protest, exemplifying the way NGOs routinely sanitise the environmental movement in spite of the people worst affected by climate change.

Long Read: On Airstrikes

James Butler

Sunday Long Read: The parliamentary vote to bomb Syria has provoked indignant rage across the country. Why is the case for airstrikes so shaky, who our Cameron’s allies and what support can we offer those in - and fleeing from - the region?

Novara FM: Is Political Art Good?

On this week's show James Butler and Ash Sarkar discuss the potential for art in articulating radical politics.

3 Reasons Hilary Benn’s Use of the International Brigades to Justify Bombing Syria Was Ignorant

Javier Moreno Zacarés

In his lauded speech in the Commons this week, Hilary Benn invoked the memory of the antifascist International Bridges to justify the bombing of Syria. In doing so, he ignored history to bolster British jingoism.

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