October | 2016 | Novara Media

Prison, Bogotá. Pablo Romero / Flickr / CC.

Long Read: Inside Patio Six

Zoe P-C

Our reporter talks to guerrilla fighters imprisoned Patio Six, a high-security unit in the Good Pastor prison for women, Bogotá. They recount their experiences of life behind bars, and discuss their hopes for the Colombian peace process.

Calais Migrant Camp: The State So Far

Alex Fusco

Calais's migrant camp is under attack. The French and British states have been failing the people living there for years, so why is this happening now?

Novara FM: What’s So Great About Britain?

This week on NovaraFM, Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani are joined by Michael Walker and Zoe Gardner to discuss British identity and new models for citizenship.

#Slaveroo, Industrial Action and Cooperativism: What Does the Future of the Digital Platform Economy Hold?

Jim Benfield

Recent strikes by Deliveroo and UberEats workers drive home the threats to rights and conditions behind the growth of the digital platform economy. What does the future hold for these technologies and our relationship to them?

The Fragility of Legitimacy: A Queer Critique of Hillary Clinton

Long Read: Towards a Queer Crisis: On Capitalism & Compulsory Heterosexuality

Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen)

For most of the history of capitalism, heterosexuality has been mandated by law. Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen) examine the role of compulsory heterosexuality in capitalism, and consider how it can be disrupted.

Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow

Climate change is being driven by more than just big name oil and gas firms like BP. A whole network of industries contributes to and relies on environmental destruction. Here are five of the worst offenders based in London.

Podemos 2.0: Towards a Party-Movement?

Pablo Castaño Tierno

Following the disappointing results obtained by the coalition Unidos Podemos in the Spanish election earlier this year, a growing number of Podemos leaders have called for the need to restructure the party.

Larry Sanders: “We Don’t Really Know Who the Labour Party Is”

Josiah Mortimer

Josiah Mortimer interviewed Green party candidate Larry Sanders, brother of Bernie, about his running in the Witney by-election, Jeremy Corbyn, and the possibility of a Green-Labour alliance in the next general election.

Long Read: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Communists? Red Scares, Then and Now

John Medhurst

John Medhurst examines the infamous 'Zinoviev Letter' incident, and draws parallels between the 'red scares' of the 1920s and the current media campaign to discredit Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum.

Novara FM: May’s Britain: People and Multitude

On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani examine contemporary British politics through the concepts of ‘the people’ and ‘the multitude'.

The Cost of Being a Model Minority: Neoliberalism and the British Sikh Family

Symrun Chatha

While the British Sikh population has often been framed as a 'model minority', their success is only understood in neoliberal terms, and has come at great human cost.

Why the Movement for Scottish Independence Has to Remain Radical

Liam Young

Nicola Sturgeon has fired the starting gun on the prospect of a second Scottish independence referendum, but if #indyref2 is to succeed it will need to recapture the radicalism which galvanised working class people the first time around.

What even is anarchafeminism?

On this week's Killjoy FM, Ray Filar is joined by Alexis Calvas and Sami Capulcu, as they discuss bringing anarchism to feminism and feminism to anarchism

Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy

Jessica Brown

In May the mental health for schools champion was fired for criticising government policy, suggesting the Tories are more concerned with PR than children's mental wellbeing.

Long Read: ‘I’m not looking for a new England’: On the Limitations of Radical Nationalism

Kojo Koram

As UK politics veers wildly to the right, some people are attempting to rehabilitate a progressive English nationalism as part of a left project to push back against a rising tide of xenophobia and racism. Kojo Koram examines the limitations of this project.

Long Read: Inside Patio Six

Zoe P-C

Calais Migrant Camp: The State So Far

Alex Fusco

Novara FM: What’s So Great About Britain?

#Slaveroo, Industrial Action and Cooperativism: What Does the Future of the Digital Platform Economy Hold?

Jim Benfield

The Fragility of Legitimacy: A Queer Critique of Hillary Clinton

Alessandro Granato

Ched Evans, State Violence and the Politics of Rape

IMOBastani: Self Employed? You’re Probably in Poverty

Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow

Podemos 2.0: Towards a Party-Movement?

Pablo Castaño Tierno

Long Read: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Communists? Red Scares, Then and Now

John Medhurst

Novara FM: May’s Britain: People and Multitude

The Cost of Being a Model Minority: Neoliberalism and the British Sikh Family

Symrun Chatha

Why the Movement for Scottish Independence Has to Remain Radical

Liam Young

What even is anarchafeminism?

Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy

Jessica Brown

Long Read: ‘I’m not looking for a new England’: On the Limitations of Radical Nationalism

Kojo Koram

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Long Read: Inside Patio Six

Zoe P-C

Calais Migrant Camp: The State So Far

Alex Fusco

Novara FM: What’s So Great About Britain?

#Slaveroo, Industrial Action and Cooperativism: What Does the Future of the Digital Platform Economy Hold?

Jim Benfield

The Fragility of Legitimacy: A Queer Critique of Hillary Clinton

Alessandro Granato

Ched Evans, State Violence and the Politics of Rape

IMOBastani: Self Employed? You’re Probably in Poverty

Long Read: Towards a Queer Crisis: On Capitalism & Compulsory Heterosexuality

Sophie Monk & Joni Pitt (Cohen)

Exposing London’s Dirty Energy Complex: 5 Companies (and Industries) Causing Climate Change

Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik and Charlie Satow

Podemos 2.0: Towards a Party-Movement?

Pablo Castaño Tierno

Larry Sanders: “We Don’t Really Know Who the Labour Party Is”

Josiah Mortimer

Long Read: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Communists? Red Scares, Then and Now

John Medhurst

Novara FM: May’s Britain: People and Multitude

The Cost of Being a Model Minority: Neoliberalism and the British Sikh Family

Symrun Chatha

Why the Movement for Scottish Independence Has to Remain Radical

Liam Young

What even is anarchafeminism?

Department for Education Emails Reveal a Crisis in Children’s Mental Health Policy

Jessica Brown

Long Read: ‘I’m not looking for a new England’: On the Limitations of Radical Nationalism

Kojo Koram

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