Novara FM: Nina Power: Decapitalism
On #NovaraFM, Nina Power joins James Butler to talk about ‘decapitalism’ – from severed heads to sovereignty to contemporary anticapitalism and more.
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All The Best: Commentators Wake From 7 Month Coma Unaware Politics Has Changed
Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly return to the Novara shipping container to talk Nick Cohen’s coma, Frank Sinatra’s being a comrade, the prescience of Seumas Milne, and of course - melt of the week.
The Lockdown: WTF Is Prison Even For?
On The Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann ask: what is prison actually for? They discuss the history of the prison, its relationship to capitalism and colonialism, and what this means for our criminal justice system today.
Novara FM: 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.
All The Best: DUP… Easy As 1, 2, 3
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin return for yet another episode of All The Best exploring the chaos at the heart of Brexit, please enjoy and tell your comrades about it
Novara FM: 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.
All The Best: You Lost, but Call It a Purge If It Makes You Feel Better
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin return for episode three of All The Best, with a new feature – “Melt of the Week” – and a highly developed discourse on the ethics of growing human organs in pigs
The Lockdown: Britain’s Prison Industrial Complex
The Lockdown is a show all about prisons and the criminal justice system in Britain. Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss what the prison industrial complex looks like in Britain and why privatisation in the prison system matters.
Novara FM: Climate and Capital: After COP23
James Butler is joined by Asad Rehman and Suzanne Dhaliwal to talk about climate change, global justice, and the aftermath of the latest conference in Bonn.
All The Best: Steve Kinnock: Leader, Captain, Legend
Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin record the second episode of All The Best in the wake of the BBC’s #LabourSummer
Novara FM: Sovereignty, Austerity, Nationalism: Britain and Europe
On #NovaraFM, Dawn Foster and Michael Walker join James Butler to discuss some of the driving forces behind recent political stories: sovereignty, austerity, nationalism.
Novara FM: Exponential Technologies: What Do They Mean?
On #NovaraFM, Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the exponential trends behind a range of disruptive technologies which, some claim, pose a threat to market capitalism and the society of work.
All The Best: Pass the Duchy’s Tax Bill to the Cayman Isles
After a false start Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin kick off All The Best with an eye watering opening gambit featuring the indefatigable Ash Sarkar. Take care, be well.
Novara FM: The Future That Never Was: 1997 and After
On #NovaraFM, Richard Power Sayeed joins James Butler to talk 1997: the Macpherson Inquiry, Blair, Diana & more.
TyskySour Audio: Necessary Trouble With Sarah Jaffe
Michael Walker speaks to Sarah Jaffe about protest in the US since the financial crisis. Sarah gives a long-view assessment of struggle under Obama, before laying out how social movements have responded to Trump.
Novara FM: Peter Frase: Life After Capitalism
On #NovaraFM, James Butler speaks to Peter Frase of Jacobin, author of Four Futures, about life after capitalism and the politics of the future.
Novara FM: Housing: Crisis and Inequality
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Dawn Foster and Danny Dorling to discuss the housing crisis in contemporary Britain.
Novara FM: Michael Hardt: Assembly
On #NovaraFM, Michael Hardt joins James Butler to discuss his new book (co-authored with Antonio Negri) 'Assembly'.