Costas Lapavitsas’ new book ‘The Left Case Against the EU’ rails against the EU as a neoliberal citadel, fundamentally unstable and impervious to reform. Aaron met Costas to discuss his new book, his experiences as part of the Greek Syriza government and how the Left should approach the question of Europe.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At The World Transformed Dalia Gebrial sat down with Julia Salazar to discuss her stunning electoral victory in New York, sex work decriminalization and what it means to be electable in 2018.
Ash sat down with Spike Lee to talk cops, Kanye, and why an honest racist is better than a respectable liberal. BLACKkKLANSMAN is in UK cinemas on 24th August. A Novara Media Joint
Last September Aaron Bastani sat down with the world’s leading expert on Karl Marx; David Harvey. They discussed the relevance of Marx today, productivity, China and so much more. Enjoy.
“The main thing I’ve learned from working in the British media is that much of it is a cult. Afflicted by a suffocating groupthink, intolerant of critics, hounds internal dissenters, full of people who made it because of connections and/or personal background rather than merit.” The above tweet from Owen Jones set off an inferno […]
Aaron Bastani sits down with Momentum’s National Coordinator Laura Parker.
Whilst in Bonn Dalia Gebrial had the pleasure of interviewing Tetet Lauron of IBON International on a subject seldom discussed in UK discourses on climate change. The relationship between climate justice and the role of the military in climate catastrophe.
We had the enormous pleasure of being joined by Laura Pidcock MP on Monday’s Fix. We talked about whether you can be friends with Tories, why the media have gone for her and lessons that can be learned from the failures of New Labour.