Novara Live: Unequal Burden
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani are joined by Dr Sonia Adesara to discuss why BAME communities are hardest hit by coronavirus. Plus the latest on the #LabourLeaks
Report: Labour Official Who Undermined Party and Mocked Staff Was in Running for General Secretary Under Starmer
Aaron Bastani
Exclusive: Emilie Oldknow, a former senior official at Labour HQ and a union executive, who plotted to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and called colleagues 'pube head' and 'smelly cow', was in the running for Labour's top job. Aaron Bastani reports.
Novara FM: The Economy Goes on Holiday
James Butler is joined by Will Davies, to discuss the 'holiday of exchange value' and the political economy of the pandemic.
The Burner: The Burner Episode #219: Steer Calmer With Keir Starmer
Can Keir Starmer's opposition strategy enable a pro-social lifting of the lockdown measures? Plus, a look into New Zealand's response to the lockdown.
Novara Live: Bigger Than Bernie (With Megan Day and Micah Uetricht)
Jacobin’s Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht join Michael Walker to talk about their new book ‘Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism’
Coronavirus Means Unpaid Domestic Labour Might Finally Get the Recognition It Deserves
Grace Blakeley
As the coronavirus crisis wears on, it will become increasingly difficult to ignore the gendered division of labour in our society, which sees the work undertaken, mostly by women, sidelined and devalued. Perhaps, in the aftermath, that will change, writes Grace Blakeley.
International: Locked Down But Not Out: 15,000 Sign Up to Rent Strike Campaign in Spain
Coordinadora de Vivienda de Madrid
Despite the country having become a pandemic hotspot with over 18,000 deaths, Spanish landlords are continuing to force evictions upon people who are unable to make rental payments, or who are forced to squat by long waiting lists. But tenants' unions and mutual aid groups are fighting back.
The Burner: The Burner Episode #218: Dystopia Now?
The lockdown is about to be renewed – but what do we actually know about the scientific group advising on it? Plus, why is dystopia in such easy reach in responses to the pandemic?
Report: Labour Staff Members Express Dismay With Union’s Response to Leaked Documents
Aaron Bastani
Rank-and-file Labour staffers have told Novara Media they feel “stunned” at their branch executive’s choice to emphasise the fact of the leak over its extraordinary contents, writes Aaron Bastani.
Novara Live: Forensic Opposition
Why is Keir Starmer focused on an “exit strategy”, and how will he respond to the #LabourLeaks? Plus, COVID-19 and Donald Trump defunding the World Health Organisation.
‘I Tried to End My Life’: Covid-19 Exposes the Injustice of ‘never-ending’ Prison Sentences
Naomi Larsson and Alexandra Genova
Under the new coronavirus restrictions, the safety and wellbeing of prisoners still jailed under the draconian and now-abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence will be put at further risk. In an exclusive video and article, prisoners currently serving the sentence speak to Novara Media about how they are being impacted.
Opinion: We Are Angry Too. But Now Is Not the Time to Quit the Labour Party, We Must Stay and Defend It
Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett
It is difficult to do justice to the anger we feel at the revelations exposed by the leaked Labour report, write MPs Ian Lavery and Jon Trickett. But it is precisely because we are so aggrieved that we - and you - must stay to see this through.
The Burner: The Burner Episode #217: a Tech Exit to Covid-19?
James Butler asks: what would a tech-led exit from lockdown look like? And James Meadway tells us what we should make of the OBR’s ‘bouncing ball’ scenario on the economic shock.
Novara Live: The Coronavirus Crash (With Adam Tooze)
As economies around the world go into deep freeze, Aaron Bastani is joined by economic historian Adam Tooze to discuss the scale of the downturn and what it means for modern capitalism.
The Burner: The Burner Episode #216: Labour Leaks and UK’s Coronavirus Response
Ash Sarkar tackles the weekend’s leak of an internal Labour dossier and what it reveals about what was going on at the top of the party. Plus, leading thinkers on the left tell us about how the UK should really be responding to the coronavirus crisis.
Novara Live: Sabotage From Above
The #LabourLeaks show how top-level staff sabotaged the Labour’s election chances and drove a culture of racism and bullying. We break down the key revelations on tonight’s #TyskySour
Opinion: The Labour Party’s Culture War Over Racism Has Pitted Marginalised Communities Against One Another
Ash Sarkar
The Labour party's selective objection to racism for factional purposes put Jewish members in the firing line of an internecine battle, pitted communities against one another, and threw black and Muslim members to the wolves, writes Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: ‘I feel both furious and vindicated’: the Leaked Report Explains Why Labour Didn’t Help Me After Grenfell
Emma Dent Coad
Former MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, is described as a 'grade 1 tool' in the leaked Labour report. If senior Labour party figures hadn't held her in such contempt, she writes, perhaps they would have supported her campaign in 2017 and sent additional caseworkers in the aftermath of the Grenfell fire.