The Most Influential Leftist You’ve Never Heard Of
Ash Sarkar meets Peter Mertens
Class politics is back.
Downstream is an in-depth interview show featuring conversations with activists, authors, economists, politicians, scientists, philosophers and thinkers of all stripes.
Economics Guru on How British Politics Is About to Collapse
The two-party system is over.
British politics is about to completely change.
The Truth About the Smartphone Supply Chain
Aaron meets Nicolas Niarchos
What’s in your phone?
The UK’s Last ‘Red Wall’ Is Crumbling. Inside the Fight for Wales
Aaron Bastani reports from South Wales.
Who will triumph is Wales tense Senedd battle?
Europe’s Ancient Myths, Current Crises & Future Possibilities
Ash Sarkar Meets Historian Roderick Beaton
How did Europe begin?
China’s Internet, Sci-Fi, AI & Tech Optimism Explained
Aaron Bastani Meets Yi–Ling Liu
What lies on the other side of the Great Firewall?
Is Liberalism Finally Waking up to the Crises It Has Caused?
Aaron Bastani Meets Adrian Wooldridge
How liberalism destroyed itself.
The Right Is Winning. Here’s How We Change That.
Aaron Bastani Talks to Ash Sarkar
Woke is dead. So what comes next?
The Middle Class Is Collapsing. Fascism Could Be Next.
Aaron Bastani Meets Clara Mattei
The lies of mainstream economics.
We Are Witnessing the Return of Empires & the End of Nations
Aaron Bastani Meets Rana Dasgupta
What comes after nations?
The Next Shocks Will Hit Wealthy Countries Hardest. Here’s Why
Aaron Bastani Meets John Rapley
Rich doesn’t mean resilient.
How the Democrats Abandoned Working People
Ash Sarkar meets Eric Schlosser
The American state has been captured by corporate interests.
Mandelson & the Perverted Fantasies of New Labour Liberalism
Ash Sarkar meets Maurice Glasman
Is this the end of the neoliberal order?
Vape Shops, Crypto and Luxury Watches: How Money Laundering Is Everywhere
Aaron Bastani Meets Oliver Bullough
How trillions of dollars are laundered each year.
China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown
Ash Sarkar Meets Ai Weiwei
The West is going backwards.
2008 Whistleblower on the Next Big Crash
Ash Sarkar meets Ann Pettifor.
The financial system will ‘blow itself up.’
Exposing the Lies of the 20th Century
Aaron Bastani meets Tariq Ali.
How elites captured history.
Venezuela, China and the End of the Dollar
Aaron Bastani meets Glenn Greenwald
This is about far more than oil.