Trans Rights Are Human Rights
Shon Faye takes on the media preoccupation with trans people in light of the recent decision to reform the Gender Recognition Act.
“Everything Has Gone Quiet”: Speaking to Ex-Miners 40 Years After the Pit Closures
by Mica Soellner
It's been 40 years since Thatcher shut down the coal industry, plunging many mining communities such as South Wales into decades of economic devastation. In their own words, what are the long term impacts of this on local life, and what is the way forward?
3 Myths About Riots
by Callum Cant
Riots are often individualised; put down to criminality, gangs, and moral decline, rather than treated as political eruptions. Here are 3 correctives to some common myths about riots.
2017, So Far
On #NovaraFM James Butler, Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani discuss 2017 so far. What have they got right and wrong?
Corbyn Is Wrong to Indulge Migration Myths – Free Movement Must Be Defended
by Caroline Lucas
Giving up on freedom of movement is a huge backwards step, and being a nice guy shouldn't excuse Jeremy Corbyn for pandering to baseless myths on migration, argues Green co-leader Caroline Lucas.
Long Read: Back in the SFRY: Yugo-Nostalgia and Dreams of Communism
by Charlie Ebert
In 1992 one of the world's most prosperous communist countries collapsed in bloodshed. Now, a quarter of a century later, much of the population of former Yugoslavia look back with nostalgia at the communist days of old.
“We Are Workers”: U.S. Graduate Student Workers Fight for Union Recognition
by Grant Macdonald
Graduate student workers are fighting for union recognition. But universities are blocking their efforts, knowing that if they obstruct long enough, Donald Trump could rescue them from having to afford them their rights.
‘Pacifism; It’s Over’: The Story of Morocco’s Hirak Movement
by Hassan Ashahbar, Thérèse Di Campo, and Joe Hayns
The Hirak movement, centred in Morocco's Rif region, demands social change: ‘a university, a hospital, and work’. It has been met by brutal repression by the Makhzan: a word for the combined apparatus of the ruling class. But the Makhzan is now on the back foot, and tomorrow's protest is set to be the biggest yet, report Hassan Ashahbar, Thérèse Di Campo, and Joe Hayns from Morocco.
Politics, Power, Change: Will Davies on Corbyn and Beyond
James Butler and Eleanor Penny speak with Will Davies on Corbyn and beyond.
Is the BBC Impartial?
On #NovaraFM Aaron Bastani and Tom Mills ask whether the BBC is, or ever can be, politically impartial?
Long Read: Lessons for the Anti-Fascist Left From a White Supremacist Conference
by Matt Broomfield
Posing as a white supremacist, Matt Broomfield tried to learn how fascism works today and how to fight it. Here are some lessons for the anti-fascist left going undercover at a white supremacist conference.
3 Ways to Make Your Labour Membership Count
by Margaret Corvid
So you've joined Labour? Here are three tips from Margaret Corvid, Marxist and secretary of her local Constituency Labour Party, for those on the left who want to make their membership count.
7 Reasons We’re Taking Direct Action Against Fracking in Lancashire
by Chris Saltmarsh and Leah Lapautre
After years of popular opposition being ignored by both the government and fracking company Cuadrilla, protectors in Lancashire are resorting to direct action to stop the proposed first fracking site in the UK. Here are seven reasons why two protectors are taking part in the blockades.
‘What Does Gentrification Mean to You?’ Asking Teenagers in Elephant and Castle
by Ciaran Thapar
Youth worker Ciaran Thapar interviews the young people he works with in Elephant and Castle about gentrification in the area.
Long Read: Climate Apocalypse Vs. Liberal Utopianism: The Arguments For and Against the End of the World
by Nicholas Beuret
Over the past few days there have been a series of arguments and rebuttals around a recent New York Magazine article about impending climate catastrophe, opening a debate about what facts mean for environmental action and the politics of fear.
Solidarity at Sea: Could Facebook Help Cruise Workers Fight Back?
by Miranda Hall
Cruise workers experience both some of the worst working conditions and unique barriers to collective organising. Can social media networks help crew members overcome these barriers and provide a starting point for building a movement?
Long Read: The Hairpin Drop: The Radical Origins of Pride in the UK
by Emily Jessica Turner
Radical. Rebellious. Resistant. This is the real history of Pride in the UK.
Long Read: A Story of Queer Riot
by Joni Cohen + Sophie Monk
"Police were barricaded inside, the queers outside, on the street. This spatial switch shows the upheaval of power in this clash. For these glorious hours, the sanctuary of the bar was no longer needed."