Novara FM: How We Might Live: Architecture and Culture
James Butler is joined by Owen Hatherley, culture editor of Tribune Magazine to talk architecture - socialist and otherwise - and the politics of culture.
Novara Live: Starmerama
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani are joined by ex-MP and Starmer supporter Paul Sweeney to discuss the Labour leadership, new details about the Bolivian coup, and the spread of coronavirus.
Opinion: Angela Rayner’s Record on Education Is a Warning to the Left
Sol Gamsu
Having a good backstory and performing well in the media only goes so far, argues Sol Gamsu. What matters in the end is politics.
Opinion: With a US Trade Deal Threatening NHS Drug Prices, could Public Pharma Save Us From Big Pharma?
Sammy Luney
Donald Trump wants the NHS to pay more for drugs. Instead we should make our own, argues junior doctor Sammy Luney.
Novara Live: UCU Strikes Back
On tonight’s show Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker are joined by Jo Grady to discuss the recent UCU strikes, the money behind the Keir Starmer campaign, and the issue of free speech on university campuses.
How the US Far Right Are Trying to Interfere in Labour’s Leadership Election
Aaron Bastani
Turning Point UK - the British version of a US group with extensive links to the far right - has spent £15,000 on Facebook ads attacking the Labour party and, in particular, leadership candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey, reveals Aaron Bastani.
Novara Live: Bernie Hits the Jackpot
Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani and Dalia Gebrial discuss Bernie’s big win in Nevada, ballots dropping in the Labour leadership race, and the start of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing.
Novara Live: Floods and Fury
On tonight’s show Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss record flooding across parts of England and Wales, the most spikey Democratic debate so far, and the BBC giving a Tommy Robinson supporter a national megaphone (again).
Explainers: Keir Starmer: Not the Safe Choice for Labour?
David Wearing argues that with only a few years left to prevent climate breakdown, Labour’s new leader has to both win the next general election, and then push through a major transformation of our economic model in a single parliament. So can Labour afford to go back to the politics of the centre left, which […]
Opinion: The Criminalisation of Solidarity With Rojava Should Worry Us All
Iida Käyhkö
The arrest of British YPG recruit Dan Newey's father and brother shines a light on the government's escalating campaign to criminalise people travelling to Northern Syria to join the Rojava revolution, writes Iida Käyhkö.
Novara Live: Points Mean Prizes
On the day the government releases plans for a points based immigration system, Michael Walker is joined by Ash Sarkar and James Meadway to assess what it means for migrant rights in Britain.
Opinion: Populist Austerity – This Is the Real Johnsonomics
Phil Jones
With the government nationalising Northern Rail and floating the idea of a mansion tax, what looks to some like a move to the left for the Conservatives, is in fact populist austerity in action, argues Phil Jones.
Opinion: Marketising the Mental Health Crisis: How the CBT Empire-Builders Colonised the NHS
Paul Atkinson
New Labour's flagship talking therapy service, IAPT, has become an empire, offering assembly-line state therapy to a society suffering the mental ill-health of late stage capitalism, writes psychotherapist Paul Atkinson.
Novara Live: Novara REACTS to C4 Labour Leadership Debate
On this episode of #TyskySour Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani react to the Channel 4 Labour leaders debate, plus discuss the eugenicist in Number 10, and Tory threats to privatise the BBC.
ACFM: #ACFM Trip 8: Acid Urbanism
Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn discuss Acid Urbanism, including The Right to the City, Communist Follies and Reclaiming the Streets.
Opinion: The Government’s Inadequate Response to Flooding Is Further Proof It ‘just doesn’t get’ Climate Change
Hannah Martin
Storm Dennis and Storm Ciara are just the latest in a string of increasingly severe weather events that have devastated entire regions, caused mass travel disruption, and confirmed that the UK government has no coherent or credible plan for the challenges our changing climate will inevitably bring, writes Hannah Martin.
International: Miners in Georgia Are Staging Wildcat Strikes in a Bid to Survive As Their Working Conditions Worsen
Volodya Vagner
In pictures: Manganese in one of Eastern Europe's hippest new travel destinations are dying as a result of poor working conditions, entrenched by decades of neoliberal reform. Volodya Vagner reports on the workers fighting back.
Novara Live: Why Trade Unions Matter
Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker are joined by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey to discuss his new book ‘Why You Should Be a Trade Unionist’.