Month: May 2024 | Novara Media

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.

12: How to Be a Good Friend

Moya and Ash get deep and meaningful before helping a listener who’s dating a “normie”.

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.

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. […]

Microdose: Reactionary Democracy

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

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

Salting the earth is the order of the day.

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

‘The more they keep coming back, the bigger the resistance seems to be getting.’

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

‘Prejudice and stigma around gender or sexuality is a red line for me.’

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.

Opinion

Striking workers at Grangemouth oil refinery in 2008. REUTERS/David Moir

‘Jobs or the Environment’ Is a False Choice Deployed by the Right

Polly Smythe

Good jobs, clean air.

Report

Activists blockading the Department for Business and Trade on Wednesday morning. Polly Smythe

Business Department Blockaded in Protest at Arms Exports to Israel

Polly Smythe

An arms embargo from below.

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