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After Deflating Thousands of Tyres, Eco-Saboteurs Are Thinking Up New Ways to Tackle SUVs

Clare Hymer

Since March 2022, guerrilla climate activists have deflated over 10,000 SUV tyres across 15 countries. We went out with the Tyre Extinguishers in Bristol to find out what eco-saboteurs might do next.

A far-right protester at a demonstration outside a hotel in Rotherham.

Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right

Charlotte England

A group of asylum seekers has been resisting eviction from a south London hotel for the last three weeks. But layers of outsourcing mean they don't even know who's trying to move them. Charlotte England reports.

How a Cumbrian Community is Building Working Class Confidence

Craig Gent

The cost of living crisis is only compounding crises of poverty and mental health nationwide. But one community in Barrow-in-Furness is pulling together.

What We Learned at the Latest Round of the Spycops Inquiry

Polly Smythe

Spycops may have sent information to blacklisters and they hated democratic accountability.

Far right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, speaks outside 10 Downing Street

White and Hindu Supremacists Are a Match Made in Heaven

Amardeep Singh Dhillon

Tommy Robinson’s Hindutva rant has cemented an alliance long in the making, writes Amardeep Singh Dhillon.

Two riot police with 'Polizia' on their jackets and blue helmets face a crowd marching towards them carrying banners

Italy’s ‘Fascist’ Government Is Imprisoning Anarchists Using Anti-Mafia Laws

Jack Harmsworth

Alfredo Cospito is imprisoned under '41-bis', a system so brutal even an American court compared it to 'torture'. Jack Harmsworth reports.

Should Schools Tackle Andrew Tate Head On?

Sophie K Rosa

We spoke to teachers and students about the influence of Andrew Tate in schools, viral misogyny, and what can be done about it.

I Went to a Queer Platonic Co-Parenting Meet-Up

Sophie K Rosa

More and more queer people are partnering up platonically in order to raise kids. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Alexander Darwall. Screengrab: Edison

Meet the UK’s ‘Most Loathed’ Landowner

Simon Childs

Devon landowner and maverick hedge fund manager Alexander Darwall, who managed to get wild camping banned, has previously been criticised for enclosing common land and had to apologise after a dodgy investment blew up in his face.

An image of Macron appears on the warning label of an oversized packet of cigarettes being held up as a protest banner. Crowds can be seen in the background

Could Pension Reform End Macron?

Olly Haynes

An attempt to raise the retirement age in France has sparked the biggest anti-government protests since the gilets jaunes. Olly Haynes reports.

CWU workers on strike. Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany

What Actually is a General Strike and is the UK Going to Have One?

Polly Smythe

There's been a lot of talk about general strikes recently. As unions take coordinated action, Polly Smythe explains what it would take for unions to call a general strike.

Italian protesters burn bills in protest at expensive energy. Kontrolab/IPA/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect

These Were the Moments That Made 2022

Simon Childs, Rivkah Brown, Clare Hymer, Aaron Bastani, Moya Lothian-McLean & Keir Milburn

A look back at some highlights and lowlights from the past year.

Here Are the Best Articles We Published in 2022, Picked By The Novara Team

the Articles team

From squatters-turned-slumlords to scoops about scabs, the Novara Media Articles team has been busy this year.

Two women - one older with long black hair, the other older with short curly brown hair and glasses - stand beside one another

How I Deradicalised My Terf Mum

Rivkah Brown

As the nation prepares for the high holiday of arguments, Rivkah Brown speaks to two people who won over rightwing friends and family.

LONDON, UK - August 19, 2013. Different To Let property signs in a row in London, UK

Welcome to Renting While Black

Carla Abreu

More than one in 10 Black and Asian people have found it hard to find a safe home because of discrimination. Carla Abreu speaks to some of them.

Busy scene inside the London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 building check in area, Heathrow Airport, England, UK

Northern Irish People Can’t Come Home For Christmas

Róisín Lanigan

It’s now easier – and cheaper – to travel from Britain to the Republic of Ireland than somewhere that's supposedly part of the same country – but Unionist politicians don't seem concerned.

Students Are Occupying Schools and Universities in Protest at Climate Chaos

Clare Hymer & Sam Knights

It’s been four years since striking students forced the climate crisis onto the global agenda. Now, they’re trying a new strategy. Clare Hymer and Sam Knights report.

Imagine shows cattle standing in a green field in front of a white cottage

Radical Farming is Going Mainstream—And Losing Its Edge

Maozya Murray

Imported from Latin America, agroecology aims to make farming sustainable. But government adoption of the policy is bringing the term into conflict with grassroots environmental groups.

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