A Crisis of the Imagination | Aaron Meets Rutger Bregman

“Taxes” was the word on everyone’s lips after the annual Davos conference this year. The man who had dared utter it amongst the financial elite was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian whose no nonsense savaging of the establishment brought him viral fame. His latest book ‘Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There’ argues […]
She Wants to Leave… but He’s Keeping the House!

Bercow’s bombshell puts Brexit on hold and May’s government in meltdown. On tonight’s #TyskySour Paul Mason surveys a country in consititutional chaos.
Farage’s Ukip Must Not Be Rehabilitated
Recent media coverage of the UK Independence Party has drawn stark comparisons between the party under Nigel Farage and so-called 'Ukip 2.0' under successor Gerard Batten. George Newth argues this discontinuity is being greatly exaggerated, and is only aiding Farage's self-reinvention as a moderate politician.
What Next? Brexit Deadlock and Beyond
James Butler is joined by Dawn Foster and Michael Walker to break apart the week's parliamentary manoeuvrings on Brexit and the politics of the negotiations.
As Isis Falls, a Humanitarian Crisis Is Rapidly Unfolding in North-Eastern Syria
As the media fixates on 'Isis brides', the Syrian Democratic Forces are struggling to keep thousands of people alive in the desert, with little help from international aid groups. Novara Media and the Rojava Information Centre report from the frontline.
I’m Sorry, the BBC Has Now Lost It

From ‘public’ audiences filled with Tory activists to not even attempting to have political balance on panels – and even getting the most basic of facts wrong, Aaron Bastani thinks the jury is clearly out. The BBC has totally lost it when it comes to news and current affairs.

Zombie Blairites and National Service
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin talk national service, zombie Blairites, Brexit and how working class caricatures have influenced political movements.
Labour Is Now Crafting a Vision for Twenty-First Century Socialism
Forget the Tories' dull explosion, the Independent Group, and internal party sabotage led by Tom Watson. This week saw something more important than all of the above - the foundations of how a Corbyn government would build twenty-first century socialism, argues Aaron Bastani.
Sidelined No Longer, Sex Workers Led the Women’s Strike
At the heart of a feminism for all, the push for sex worker rights is a movement in which women who experience intersecting oppression and who have been marginalised by mainstream feminism are fighting back and winning.
Free Money for Everyone!

Free money for everyone – sounds bonkers, right? Well maybe not. With advocates of UBI (Universal Basic Income) popping up everywhere, perhaps this is the solution to increasing populations and technological innovations.
She’s Lost Control, Again With Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour is in the house to discuss May’s Brexit catastrophe , Tom Watson’s ploy to kick out Corbyn and Corbynism after Brexit.
As the Far Right Comes for Feminism, Women in Spain Have Gone on Strike
In Spain, millions of protesters have taken to the streets for International Women's Day. Amid a conservative backlash against feminism's social and political demands, they are marching and striking against domestic violence, inequality at work, unrecognised forms of labour and transphobia.
Who Was Rosa Luxemburg?

Rosa Luxemburg was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. She was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century and her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy scandalised people at the time both from the left and the right. We sent Eleanor Penny to Berlin on the 100th anniversary of her death […]
Sisterhood and Solidarity: How Pakistan’s Feminists Started an Anti-War Movement
As women in Pakistan prepare for the country’s second International Women’s Day March, the feminist movement has adopted an anti-war agenda that attacks militarism from an explicitly anti-capitalist, feminist and postcolonial perspective.
5 Reasons Feminists in Leeds Are Striking on 8 March
Wrenched from its radical roots in the struggles of working class women, International Women’s Day has been increasingly defanged in the name of corporate interest. Luke Dukinfield makes the case for reclaiming it.
Chris Grayling: Chaos Entity

This is Chris Grayling’s world, and we’re all just living in it.
Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Institutional Racism

“Does the left have an antisemitism problem? Do the Tories get a free pass on Islamophobia? And what does it mean to be “institutionally racist”? Tonight Michael Walker is joined by Eleanor Penny and David Wearing to discuss these questions.
Millennial Socialism

The capitalist press have clocked “millennial socialism”. Can they deal with an egalitarian future? Michael Walker is joined by Aaron Bastani and Callum Williams of the Economist.