Local Election Results
Michael Walker, Dawn Foster and Richard Seymour take a look at the local election results.
Novara FM is a podcast about the ideas, people and movements that wield power in our lives.
After Windrush: Britain and Migration
On #NovaraFM, James Butler, Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar look at the politics of the recent Windrush crisis, the history of migration policy in the UK, and ask: what could a left-wing migration policy look like?
On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.
Anti-Semitism and the Left
Eleanor Penny is joined by Rachel Shabi and Ian Saville to discuss anti-semitism on the left and the media’s recent attacks on Jewdas.
Notes From Below: No Politics Without Inquiry!
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by three editors from Notes From Below – Jessica Thorne, Callum Cant and Seth Wheeler – to discuss the history and theory of Workers’ Inquiry and current strike action.
Russia: Democracy, Oligarchy, Repression
James Butler is joined by Simon Pirani, author of ‘Change in Putin’s Russia’, and Tom Rowley, editor of openDemocracy Russia, to discuss the nature of the Russian state, its politics, and the forthcoming elections.
Novara FM: SNOW DAY!
Your hardy editors bring you a Snow Day Special, where James Butler, Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker talk conspiracy theories, books that changed them, desire in politics – and what their younger selves would think of them now.
Czech M8? Smears, Media & the Left
On #NovaraFM, Richard Seymour joins James Butler and Aaron Bastani to talk about right-wing smear campaigns, the changing shape of the press and the vexed relationship between media and politics.
Taking It Back: Public Ownership in the 21st Century
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Grace Blakeley, Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker to discuss public ownership from nationalisation to socialisation – and what a truly democratised economy might look like.
A Century of Suffrage?
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Zoe Williams, Ash Sarkar and Eleanor Penny to discuss the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918, which offered limited suffrage to women, and discuss the changing face of feminism in the past century.
A German Spring?
On #NovaraFM, Mark Bergfeld joins James Butler to discuss German politics, from #NoGroKo movement against a new grand coalition, the Left Party, the rise of the far right and German social movements.
Faultlines: Liz Fekete on Racism, Europe and the New Right
On #NovaraFM, James Butler and Ash Sarkar are joined by Liz Fekete, director of the Institute of Race Relations, to talk about racism, resistance and the rebirth of the right.
Carillion: Scam, Scandal, Opportunity
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Grace Blakeley and Ann Pettifor to discuss the decline and fall of Carillion, outsourcing, financialisation – and how to transform public investment in Britain.
Lexit 2019?
On the first #NovaraFM of 2018, James Butler and Aaron Bastani discus Brexit, ‘Lexit’ and the progress and potentials of leaving the European Union. Are we all Lexiters now?
2017: Year in Review
James Butler is joined by three Novara Media editors – Aaron Bastani, Ash Sarkar, and Michael Walker – to look back over 2017’s political highs and lows, successes and failures, breakthroughs and reversals.
Nina Power: Decapitalism
On #NovaraFM, Nina Power joins James Butler to talk about ‘decapitalism’ – from severed heads to sovereignty to contemporary anticapitalism and more.
Radical Happiness: Lynne Segal
James Butler is joined by Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, and longstanding left feminist, to discuss radical happiness, utopia and political joy.
Budget2031
Aaron Bastani is joined by Grace Blakeley and James Meadway as they ask whether the recent budget offered conclusive proof that Britain’s economic model is dead.