Opinion

Queer People Have Had to Rely on Each Other This Year, and Christmas Is No Exception

Harry Gay

In the absence of adequate government support, queer people have created networks, organisations and structures to care for each other throughout the pandemic, writes Harry Gay. Christmas will be no different.

Could ‘Cancelled Christmas’ Help Us Imagine a World Beyond the Nuclear Family?

As we process the collective pain of ‘cancelled Christmas’, some people are imagining forms of connection and care beyond the nuclear family, writes Sophie K Rosa, ones that might help sustain us in crises to come.

Spain Is Considering a Four-Day Week – What’s Stopping Britain Doing the Same?

James Meadway

To a British public jaded by a decade of austerity, a four-day week seems like a pipe dream, writes James Meadway. Yet as the authors of a new book argue, and as developments in Spain demonstrate, that is far from being the case.

A man walks down a bombed-out street in Sa'ada, Yemen.

To Be Taken Seriously, Open Labour Needs to Do Much, Much Better on Yemen

David Wearing

A recent Open Labour pamphlet manages to minimise and misrepresent the world’s worst humanitarian disaster in just two sentences. David Wearing argues if Labour’s soft left is serious about internationalism, it will have to do better on the most consequential issue in British foreign policy since the Iraq war.

Green Capitalism Will Never Succeed in Tackling Climate Breakdown

Leon Sealey-Huggins

We're now beginning to see the contours of 'green capitalism' - and it's not pretty. Meaningful responses to the climate crisis will only succeed if they address global inequalities, argues Leon Sealey-Huggins - which also means our solutions cannot be 'beyond politics'.

9 Books for Getting to Grips With the Climate Crisis

Gaya Sriskanthan, Chris Saltmarsh & Adrienne Buller

To accompany our ongoing Climate Focus, we asked some of Novara's friends to share their top reading recommendations for understanding the defining issues of the climate crisis.

Meat Without Animals Isn’t Some Utopia. It’s a Future Already on Its Way

Aaron Bastani

Major developments in lab-grown meat have quietly passed most of us by, writes Aaron Bastani. But a world where we live within our planet’s limits while eating beef and lamb, and where animals need not suffer, isn’t some far-off future - it's already on the horizon.

To Bring About a Just Transition, Unions and the Climate Movement Must Work Together

Chris Saltmarsh

Right now, trade unions and climate organisations have neither the radical politics nor militant strategies needed for a just energy transition. Chris Saltmarsh spoke to union activists about where we're going wrong.

We’ll Always Have Paris?

Adrienne Buller

Joe Biden’s victory marks the end of four years of US climate denial and isolationism. But rather than celebrating a return to the glossy theatrics of diplomacy, we need to make ever stronger demands for climate justice on a global scale, argues Adrienne Buller.

The Conservative Government is a Threat to National Security

David Wearing

With the announcement of a £16bn boost to military spending, the Tories are once again positioning themselves as the party of 'national security'. But from the mishandling of the pandemic to inaction on the climate crisis, it's they who are our biggest threat, argues David Wearing.

The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

Nadia Whittome

Activists and lawyers should not have had to intervene this week to stop the Tories deporting people with a legal right to be in the UK, writes Nadia Whittome MP. The Jamaica deportation flight shows that for the Home Office, if you're black, poor and have a foreign passport, that's enough to fast-track you out.

Is It Time for the Left to Back Nuclear Energy?

Craig Gent

In recent years, much of the green left has quietly dropped its historic opposition to nuclear energy in favour of 'constructive ambiguity'. With the need to decarbonise more pressing than ever, Craig Gent asks if the left needs to get off the fence.

The Collapse of the Arcadia Group Spells the End of Britain’s High Street – When Will Politicians Act?

Aaron Bastani

If the Tories continue to offer no analysis of capitalism beyond doing nothing and saying 'that’s the market', the crisis of Britain’s high street - and with it, household and regional inequality - will only get worse, writes Aaron Bastani. Instead, we must repurpose high streets for the public good.

Disability discrimination act protest 1995

25 Years on From the Disability Discrimination Act, Disabled People Still Face Oppression and Injustice

Ellen Clifford

It's no wonder disability rights legislation has failed, writes Ellen Clifford, when the very category of disability is essential to upholding capitalism. Disabled people will never be gifted full equality under a system that, in order to justify itself, needs them to have a worse experience of life than those better suited for exploitation.

An aerial photograph of mineral mines, overlaid with map imagery.

Can We Go Green Without Plundering the Global South?

Harpreet Kaur Paul

Is it possible to decarbonise the Global North's energy supply chains without yet more wealth and resource extraction from the Global South? Only by prioritising flourishing for all, argues human rights lawyer Harpreet Kaur Paul.

The Police Are Going Backwards On Institutional Racism – And Their Most Powerful Officer is In Denial

Ash Sarkar

Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick’s claim that nobody is being stopped and searched because of the colour of their skin is a gross insult to the public's intelligence, writes Ash Sarkar. Whatever progress has been made in tackling racism is now in retreat.

Queer People Have Had to Rely on Each Other This Year, and Christmas Is No Exception

Harry Gay

Could ‘Cancelled Christmas’ Help Us Imagine a World Beyond the Nuclear Family?

Sophie K Rosa

Spain Is Considering a Four-Day Week – What’s Stopping Britain Doing the Same?

James Meadway

To Be Taken Seriously, Open Labour Needs to Do Much, Much Better on Yemen

David Wearing

Green Capitalism Will Never Succeed in Tackling Climate Breakdown

Leon Sealey-Huggins

9 Books for Getting to Grips With the Climate Crisis

Gaya Sriskanthan, Chris Saltmarsh & Adrienne Buller

Meat Without Animals Isn’t Some Utopia. It’s a Future Already on Its Way

Aaron Bastani

To Bring About a Just Transition, Unions and the Climate Movement Must Work Together

Chris Saltmarsh

We’ll Always Have Paris?

Adrienne Buller

The Conservative Government is a Threat to National Security

David Wearing

The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

Nadia Whittome

Is It Time for the Left to Back Nuclear Energy?

Craig Gent

The Collapse of the Arcadia Group Spells the End of Britain’s High Street – When Will Politicians Act?

Aaron Bastani

25 Years on From the Disability Discrimination Act, Disabled People Still Face Oppression and Injustice

Ellen Clifford

Can We Go Green Without Plundering the Global South?

Harpreet Kaur Paul

The Police Are Going Backwards On Institutional Racism – And Their Most Powerful Officer is In Denial

Ash Sarkar

The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

Shielders Have Been Abandoned During Lockdown – It Can’t Happen Again

Jamie Hale

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Opinion

Queer People Have Had to Rely on Each Other This Year, and Christmas Is No Exception

Harry Gay

Could ‘Cancelled Christmas’ Help Us Imagine a World Beyond the Nuclear Family?

Sophie K Rosa

Spain Is Considering a Four-Day Week – What’s Stopping Britain Doing the Same?

James Meadway

To Be Taken Seriously, Open Labour Needs to Do Much, Much Better on Yemen

David Wearing

Green Capitalism Will Never Succeed in Tackling Climate Breakdown

Leon Sealey-Huggins

9 Books for Getting to Grips With the Climate Crisis

Gaya Sriskanthan, Chris Saltmarsh & Adrienne Buller

Meat Without Animals Isn’t Some Utopia. It’s a Future Already on Its Way

Aaron Bastani

To Bring About a Just Transition, Unions and the Climate Movement Must Work Together

Chris Saltmarsh

We’ll Always Have Paris?

Adrienne Buller

The Conservative Government is a Threat to National Security

David Wearing

The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

Nadia Whittome

Is It Time for the Left to Back Nuclear Energy?

Craig Gent

The Collapse of the Arcadia Group Spells the End of Britain’s High Street – When Will Politicians Act?

Aaron Bastani

25 Years on From the Disability Discrimination Act, Disabled People Still Face Oppression and Injustice

Ellen Clifford

Can We Go Green Without Plundering the Global South?

Harpreet Kaur Paul

The Police Are Going Backwards On Institutional Racism – And Their Most Powerful Officer is In Denial

Ash Sarkar

The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

Shielders Have Been Abandoned During Lockdown – It Can’t Happen Again

Jamie Hale

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