Why do some antisemites love Israel? What’s the relationship between Jewishness and whiteness? Why is our public conversation about antisemitism such a mess? Matt Lieb and Eleanor Penny talk Jewishness, Zionism and the rise of the far right.
Chuka’s being paid £450 an hour to renew “the progressive centre”. Should the left be worried? And can anyone bring centrism back from the dead? Grace Blakeley and John McTernan debate!
What do you do when your protest art becomes the backdrop to an arms industry party? These artists withdrew their work and set up their own exhibition to hold the Design Museum to account.
As Tommy Robinson gets boosted by the UK press, and Brazil’s stock market backs Jair Bolsonaro. We ask: Why are the mainstream media, big business and fascists all besties? With Ash Sarkar and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera.
On the 13th of October the Democratic Football Lads Alliance tried to march through central London. They were prevented from marching their intended route by an anti-fascist demonstration led by women and non-binary people.
On this week’s episode of The Bastani Factor Aaron looks at some of the biggest stories of the week, including the Observer giving space to the most marginalised voices in Britain and the fact that the climate is very likely screwed.
Tonight Dan Carden MP makes his #tyskysour debut, on May’s speech, his journey to Westminster, and his brief as shadow minister of international development. With Michael Walker and Eleanor Penny.
On a 14-square mile patch of western France known as Notre-Dame-des-Landes, a world is being constructed, a way of living, formed through common endeavour and a knowledge of and sensitivity to the landscape and its ecosystems. It’s a messy process that was started 10 years ago when climate activists started to squat the area to […]
At The World transformed 2018 Aaron Bastani sat down with Leo Panitch, editor of the Socialist Register and distinguished research professor at York University. They talked socialism, party democracy, mandatory reselections and more.
Callum Cant on why it’s all kicking off everywhere (for fast food workers).
At The World Transformed 2018, Eleanor Penny met National Organising Director at the Working Families Party Nelini Stamp. They discussed white supremacy, working class organisation strategies, the future and hope.
With empty seats, and few big ideas. Michael, James and Aaron discuss what the Tories can salvage from Birmingham.
At The World transformed 2018 James Butler met with David Graeber to talk Momentum,dual power, co-option, the extra-parliamentary left and winning.
John McDonnell MP, the Shadow Chancellor, dropped in to the Novara Media studio at The World Transformed to discuss Marx, flak from the press, and drop hints on the identity of the future governor of the Bank of England.
After Keir Starmer’s speech, is Labour now the Party of Remain? And what have we learnt about the unions and Momentum from #Lab18.
Ash sat down with Karma Nabulsi (Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford) to talk about why Palestine is Britain’s problem – and what the left should do about it.
At The World Transformed 2018 Grace Blakeley talks to Paul Mason about the consequences of Labour’s first steps towards moving beyond capitalism.
On tonight’s #tyskysour, in our third episode live from The World Transformed, Michael Walker will discuss workers on boards and wealth funds, with Ian Lavery, the IPPR’s Matt Lawrence, Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani.