Truncheons at Dawn
When a filmmaker and a solicitor investigated the policing of protest, they found secret manuals, imperial legacies and dirty tricks.
Novara FM is a podcast about the ideas, people and movements that wield power in our lives.
Abolishing Prisons Is Only the Start
How can we build a world that has no need of policing? Rivkah Brown finds out with scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
A Simple Plan to Save the World
Mass rewilding, worldwide socialist planning and universal veganism? It won't be easy but it's our best shot at the good life, say the authors of Half-Earth Socialism.
How We Normalised the Apocalypse
Can humanity turn back from the brink? Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat on breaking the spell of end-times nihilism.
Putin’s Philosopher and the Global Far Right
Who is Aleksandr Dugin? Benjamin Teitelbaum introduces the spiritual leader of traditionalism, an idea that unites illiberal regimes around the world.
What Can Art Galleries Teach Us About Class Oppression?
The Tate's collection is a lesson in the making of class, explains Nathalie Olah.
Who Has the Right to Sex?
Amia Srinivasan and James Butler explore the philosophical grey zones between power, intimacy and violence.
Sex Sells
The left often defends sex workers, but how often do we defend sex work? Women from the Queer Whore Collective speak to Rivkah Brown.
The Age of Endless War
What if our efforts to make war more humane have also made them unwinnable? Yale professor Samuel Moyn speaks to Aaron Bastani.
History, Humanity, Heresy
Archaeologist David Wengrow upends everything we thought we knew about social evolution in a new book written with David Graeber.
Revenge of the Real
Benjamin Bratton on solving the climate crisis with planetary-scale politics.
Notice Me!
Is modern politics governed by the demand for recognition? And what happens when that collides with the internet? Will Davies explains.
Riots and the Red Flag
#ACFM's Keir Milburn offers a bloody and boisterous workers' history of Leeds.
NO ONE WAY WORKS: Political Organisation for the 21st Century
Rodrigo Nunes joins James Butler to throw light on left melancholia and the future of political organisation.
Sex, Dissidence, Desire
Jonathan Dollimore joins James Butler to talk sex, subversion and truly dangerous knowledge.
Police State of Mind
Rivkah Brown presents a special episode examining how the blue tentacles of police power creep into our lives.
Afterburn
Kate Aronoff explores climate denialism, oil companies' predictions of the future, and the fate of the Green New Deal.
Get Free
Annelien De Dijn asks us: what if everything you thought you knew about freedom was wrong?