Election Reactions: On Being Told to Vote Because People Died For It.
Eleanor Penny
Election Reactions on NovaraWire: quick responses and reflections in the wake of #GE2015
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Election Night Live Blog
Novara Reporters
Rolling coverage of election night, live from Novara HQ. Updates from Craig McVegas and Aaron Bastani.
5 Reasons Why I Won’t Vote in #GE2015
Raph Schlembach
Election week on NovaraWire continues: In this instalment, the question of national elections is framed in terms of citizenship, exclusion, and the boundaries of ‘legitimate’ political action.
12 Reasons to Vote Green in this General Election
Adam Ramsay
Election week on NovaraWire continues: Never mind the Labour party - if you want to break the pro-austerity hegemony in Westminster, only a vote for the Greens can provoke a left turn for electoral politics, argues Adam Ramsay.
4 Reasons Working-Class Radicals Should Vote Labour on 7 May
Daniel Randall
Election week on NovaraWire continues: Is there a case to be made for radicals to give conditional support to Labour in this week's election? Daniel Randall from the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory thinks so.
9 Anarchist-Friendly Reasons to Vote in 2015
Ina Fever
Election week on NovaraWire: Do elections matter to radicals, or is the game fixed whoever you vote for? Here's why abstainers might want to take a different approach in 2015.
5 Ways Hotel Workers are Leading One of the Most Important Union Struggles in the UK
Ewa Jasiewicz
The London hotel sector is known as the 'Bermuda Triangle' of union organising. There are no collective union agreements in any of the major chains. Impossible to break in? Luckily there are over 1000 hotel workers in the capital fighting to win.
Barts Health: The Real-Life Consequences of PFI in the NHS
Carol Saunders
The realities of the Private Finance Initiative's role in the decimation of the NHS are at their most stark in the case of Barts Health. The east London NHS Trust covers 6 hospitals and will owe £7.1bn in PFI debt, while politicians remain silent.
PFI, the Banks, and the People Uncovering the Biggest Threat to the NHS
Joel Benjamin
This election is being dominated by discussion of the national books and the future of the NHS. Curious then that the big issue connecting the two - the Private Finance Initiative - hardly features in the papers or debates.
London’s Housing Crisis: 4 Problems and 6 Solutions
Christian Garland
In the election run-up, the housing crisis has conveniently been taken off most agendas apart from the odd nod to 'affordable homes' or the building of a handful of new houses. Here are the pressing problems in housing and some ideas of how we address them.
Meet the Key Players in the Golden Dawn Trial
Will Horner
The high-profile trial of over 70 Golden Dawn members, including sitting MPs, has been delayed today. A defendant turned up without a lawyer, forcing the court to adjourn, and two witnesses were assaulted by Golden Dawn members on their way to the trial.
Greece shows there’s no going back to the ‘before crisis’ era of electoral politics
Will Horner
The Greek experience shows that we're seeing a political crisis in the wake of the global economic crisis. Take note: the mundane predictability of general elections - the lesser-of-two evils, ‘blue or red’ choice - belongs to the ‘before crisis’ era.
‘Deep’ State, Subversion and Legitimacy
Rosa Gilbert
On last week's Novara FM, Aaron and James discussed the relationship between elections and the activities of the 'deep' state. Rosa Gilbert wrote a piece reflecting on that conversation and the tactics of the deep state in Northern Ireland.
6 Things Warwick University’s New Temp Agency Tells Us About Academic Precarity
John Murray
Warwick University has announced plans to employ all casual staff through an internal temp agency. Anti-casualisation campaigners have targeted the move as an insidious form of outsourcing which threatens the whole sector.
‘Happy Thatcher’s Dead Day’: Twitter Remembers the Iron Lady
Novara Reporters
Today marks the second anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher. Twitter has been reflecting on the moment we learned "the lady's not returning."
The struggle for decent homes cuts to the heart of post-crisis Britain
Lewis Bassett
We're told that growth is back, yet all around working class people are being smothered with escalating rents - many being forcibly moved or made homeless. What is the 'housing crisis', what makes it so bad and what is the answer?
11 Quick Reflections on the Leaders’ Debate
Adam Ramsay
Last night's seven-way leaders' debate brought in a third of TV viewers, and was the only time ahead of the general election that David Cameron and Ed Miliband will be in a studio together. The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon seems to have pulled out in front, with Farage also polling highly.
4 Reasons Why Technological Unemployment Might Really Be Different This Time
Nick Srnicek
What does automation mean for the future of employment? Some fear it will cast us to the scrapheap while the automated economy grinds on; others argue technological developments have always created new jobs. But could it ever mean something different entirely?