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Feature: Damned if EU do, damned if EU don’t

Carl Rowlands

The long-awaited in-out referendum on the UK's membership of the EU is set to happen in 2016 or 2017. Arguably lenient to EU membership historically, the Greek experience is making many question whether the left should push for Brexit.

4 Theses on Corbo-Futurism

Callum Cant

If Jeremy Corbyn is such a dinosaur, why are so many people turning to the left in search of a better future? Has the transformation of the left and failure of the New Labour led to a new form of engagement with electoral politics?

5 Reasons Catalonia’s Elections Will Be the Next Flashpoint in Europe

David Ferreira

Early elections have been announced in Catalonia. They are being seen as a replacement for a continually-outlawed independence referendum. With renewed efforts to win a pro-independence majority, the radical left could hold the balance of power.

3 Ways to Put Manners on Denis O’Brien

Ronan Burtenshaw

Irish oligarch Denis O'Brien is in the news again for issuing legal threats against satirical website Waterford Whispers. With an election coming up in the Republic how can this litigious billionaire’s influence on public life be curbed?

6 Misconceptions About the Iran Nuclear Deal

JT White

The deal on Iran’s nuclear programme has the potential to break with the tensions of the past. Yet the deal was made on wrongheaded assumptions about Iran. To this day we still view the country through a prism of falsehoods.

5 Reasons It’s Kicking Off in Turkey

Patrick Fleming

While the civil war continues in neighbouring Syria, Turkey has seen worrying developments in recent weeks - from the Suruç bombing and fighting between the PKK and the Turkish state, to Erdoğan's latest bid for outright control.

Bad for Business? 5 Ways a Corbyn Government Could Change the UK Economy

Tom Cutterham

Perhaps second only to 'aspiration', 'working with business' is among the most common dog-whistle refrains from the Labour leadership candidates. Dismissed by many for being 'anti-business', what would Corbyn really mean for the economy?

Curb Your Corbynthusiasm: 5 Thoughts on the Politics of Corbynism

James Butler

NovaraTV sat down with Jeremy Corbyn this week, whose Labour leadership campaign has made him the frontrunner and stirred discussion and debate across the left. Cutting through the hype, what are Corbyn's politics and where do they lead us?

7 Things I Learned from Chatting to Jeremy Corbyn

Aaron Bastani

Yesterday we interviewed Labour leadership hopeful, Jeremy Corbyn, for NovaraTV. Here Aaron Bastani discusses seven things he learned from talking to the bookies' new favourite.

7 Reasons Irish Water is Doomed to Fail

Ian Maleney

The Irish Water saga has intensified following a decision by the EU's statistics agency that the company must stay on the state's budget sheet. With recent figures showing a mere 43% payment rate on first bills, will Irish Water survive?

Just World Hypothesis and the Perpetuation of Victim-Blaming

George West

Victim-blaming is rife in today’s world, but why? And why do we often end up internalising the narratives that blame us? A contributing factor might be one that grounds capitalist individualism: Just World Hypothesis.

6 Reasons Jeremy Corbyn Could Win the Next General Election

James Meadway

Contrary to the expectations of many Jeremy Corbyn has been going from strength to strength in the Labour leadership election. The right say he'll make Labour unelectable, but how does their case stand up?

‘The weapon of the poor’: an irate Greek MP just gatecrashed a lecture to call for a default on the country’s debts

Craig McVegas

Today a Syriza MP commandeered a university conference lecture to deliver proposals for the direction of the Greek government following its capitulation to EU demands. Things got heated.

What is Growth? 6 Things You Should Know

John Evans

It's the political buzzword of our times, but how much to do you know about where growth comes from, who it benefits and what it ignores?

The rise in renting and how it hurts us all

Elizabeth Grey

Private renting is on the rise, but what are the knock-on effects for young people’s income, pensions and futures?

Osborne’s budget ‘surplus lock’ is a scam to encourage more borrowing from the City

Joel Benjamin

George Osborne's proposed budget 'surplus lock' will commit future governments to running surpluses when the country is not in recession. Not only will it restrict future public spending, it will channel public money into City banks.

7 Ways the Home Office’s Prevent Strategy is Turning Everyday People into Police

The Prevent strategy is entrenching racism and surreptitiously undermining our civil liberties. Comprehensive new measures build on an existing framework that has been targeting minority ethnic communities since 2001.

#StopArmingIsrael: 6 Reasons to Block the Factory

Sean O'Reilly

Today more than 20 activist groups are converging on a drone factory north of Birmingham to mark the anniversary of Gaza's bombardment by Israel during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

Feature: Damned if EU do, damned if EU don’t

Carl Rowlands

4 Theses on Corbo-Futurism

Callum Cant

5 Reasons Catalonia’s Elections Will Be the Next Flashpoint in Europe

David Ferreira

3 Ways to Put Manners on Denis O’Brien

Ronan Burtenshaw

6 Misconceptions About the Iran Nuclear Deal

JT White

5 Reasons It’s Kicking Off in Turkey

Patrick Fleming

Bad for Business? 5 Ways a Corbyn Government Could Change the UK Economy

Tom Cutterham

7 Things I Learned from Chatting to Jeremy Corbyn

Aaron Bastani

7 Reasons Irish Water is Doomed to Fail

Ian Maleney

Just World Hypothesis and the Perpetuation of Victim-Blaming

George West

6 Reasons Jeremy Corbyn Could Win the Next General Election

James Meadway

‘The weapon of the poor’: an irate Greek MP just gatecrashed a lecture to call for a default on the country’s debts

Craig McVegas

What is Growth? 6 Things You Should Know

John Evans

The rise in renting and how it hurts us all

Elizabeth Grey

Osborne’s budget ‘surplus lock’ is a scam to encourage more borrowing from the City

Joel Benjamin

7 Ways the Home Office’s Prevent Strategy is Turning Everyday People into Police

Matthew Cole

#StopArmingIsrael: 6 Reasons to Block the Factory

Sean O'Reilly

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Feature: Damned if EU do, damned if EU don’t

Carl Rowlands

4 Theses on Corbo-Futurism

Callum Cant

5 Reasons Catalonia’s Elections Will Be the Next Flashpoint in Europe

David Ferreira

3 Ways to Put Manners on Denis O’Brien

Ronan Burtenshaw

6 Misconceptions About the Iran Nuclear Deal

JT White

5 Reasons It’s Kicking Off in Turkey

Patrick Fleming

Bad for Business? 5 Ways a Corbyn Government Could Change the UK Economy

Tom Cutterham

Curb Your Corbynthusiasm: 5 Thoughts on the Politics of Corbynism

James Butler

7 Things I Learned from Chatting to Jeremy Corbyn

Aaron Bastani

7 Reasons Irish Water is Doomed to Fail

Ian Maleney

Just World Hypothesis and the Perpetuation of Victim-Blaming

George West

6 Reasons Jeremy Corbyn Could Win the Next General Election

James Meadway

‘The weapon of the poor’: an irate Greek MP just gatecrashed a lecture to call for a default on the country’s debts

Craig McVegas

What is Growth? 6 Things You Should Know

John Evans

The rise in renting and how it hurts us all

Elizabeth Grey

Osborne’s budget ‘surplus lock’ is a scam to encourage more borrowing from the City

Joel Benjamin

7 Ways the Home Office’s Prevent Strategy is Turning Everyday People into Police

Matthew Cole

#StopArmingIsrael: 6 Reasons to Block the Factory

Sean O'Reilly

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