2024 | Novara Media

Report: Palestine and Climate Activists Are Joining Forces at UK University Encampments

Clare Hymer

Students from climate and Palestine campaigns are working together to highlight universities’ links to arms and fossil fuel companies and share lessons in how to hold occupations. Clare Hymer reports.

Novara Live: Biden Pauses Weapons Shipment to Israel

The United States have halted a shipment of weapons including high munition bombs to Israel. Plus: Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to Labour; and southern Brazil has been hit by catastrophic flooding. With Michael Walker and Femi Nylander.

The strike at Amazon Coventry in November 2023. REUTERS/Carl Recine

Report: Amazon Is Holding Special Union-Busting Seminars for Workers

Polly Smythe

Workers are being bombarded with anti-union propaganda ahead of a vote to recognise the GMB. Polly Smythe reports.

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Red Flags: Do My Violent Kinks Make Me Less of a Feminist?

Sophie K Rosa

In this month’s instalment of Red Flags, Sophie K Rosa doesn’t sugar-coat her advice to a reader unsettled by her desire to submit to her boyfriend.

Novara Live: Israeli Tanks Capture Rafah Border Crossing As Netanyahu Rejects Ceasefire Deal

Israel has begun its long-awaited Rafah operation, with IDF tanks capturing Gaza’s side of the border crossing. Plus: Protest encampments spread across UK universities; and Ash Sarkar goes head to head with Labour’s Emily Thornberry on BBC Politics Live. With Moya Lothian-McLean and Mike Bankole.

If I Speak: 12: How to Be a Good Friend

Moya and Ash get deep and meaningful before helping a listener who's dating a "normie".

Novara Live: Israel Tells 100,000 Palestinians to Flee Rafah

Israel have ordered 100,000 Palestinians to leave the crowded city of Rafah in southern Gaza. Plus: more fallout from the local and mayoral elections including right-wingers fuming that Sadiq Khan has been re-elected. With Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar.

Downstream: George Galloway’s Plan to Destroy the Labour Party

George Galloway has been elected as a member of parliament for four separate constituencies – with only Winston Churchill beating him. Perhaps more remarkably still, he won on three of those occasions while not being a member of a major political party. Most recently he became the MP for Rochdale, in the north of England. […]

ACFM: Microdose: Reactionary Democracy

How do politicians and pundits end up normalising the far-right? Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon explain in a Microdose interview.

Novara Live: Tories Wrecked in Local Elections

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss Tories’ thrashing in local elections. Plus: The Greens make commendable gains; and a Labour source blames an election defeat on Hamas.

Opinion: The Tories Are Fast-Tracking Misery While They Still Can

Moya Lothian-McLean

Punitive, miserable policies are the death rattle of a government facing electoral armageddon, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.

Novara Live: Hundreds Arrested at UCLA Palestine Protest, Immigration Raid Shutdown in South London

Police have arrested hundreds of Palestine protestors at a UCLA encampment. Plus: a south London immigration raid has been blocked by the community; and Labour have diluted yet another policy offer. With Moya Lothian-McLean and @NoJusticeMTG

Report: Protesters Block Coach Moving Asylum Seekers, As Resistance to Rwanda Plan Mounts

Charlotte England

Dozens of people blocked a coach in south London to stop it from taking asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm against their will, amid a week of direct action against deportations.

Novara FM: Your Neighbour Kills Puppies

Imprisoned animal rights activist Tom Harris tells Rivkah Brown about a campaign that inspired Palestine Action.

Opinion: I Would Have Voted for George Galloway, But Then He Said Gay People Aren’t ‘Normal’

Aaron Bastani

Aaron Bastani once admired George Galloway’s principled stance on Palestine - but in a recent Novara Media interview, the Rochdale MP expressed “shocking” views on homosexuality.

Novara Live: Riot Cops & Pro-Israel Mobs: the Crackdown on US College Palestine Protests

Protests against the war in Gaza at US College campuses have been met with a crackdown by law enforcement and violence from a pro-Israel mob. Plus: Jamie Driscoll joins the show live ahead of the North East mayoral election. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.