Report: OnlyFans’ Ban – and Its Suspension – Shows That Banks Have a Chokehold on Sex Work
Marin Scarlett
A muddled legal landscape provides the perfect cover for financial institutions to discriminate with impunity, writes Marin Scarlett.
Tag: activism
Report: A Deportation Flight Just Left for Vietnam. Why Was It So Hard to Stop?
Rivkah Brown
Despite the valiant efforts of activists, the Home Office flight went ahead as planned on Wednesday afternoon. Rivkah Brown looks at why it couldn’t be stopped.
Report: A Group of Renters Just Won £19,000 From Their Billionaire Landlord – And They’re Just Getting Started
Rivkah Brown
In a historic victory for renters everywhere, Somerford Grove Renters successfully sued their lawyered-up landlord and are now preparing dozens more suits. If successful, they stand to win half a million pounds. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: England’s Footballers Are Changing the Conversation. It’s Time the Left Caught Up
Chardine Taylor-Stone
The left can't let its anxieties about nationalism stop it from joining, and shaping, the conversation around football, writes Chardine Taylor-Stone.
Opinion: Rich States Would Rather Let Poor People Die Than Waive Coronavirus Vaccine Patents
Charlie Young
Only 0.8% of people in low-income countries have been vaccinated against Covid-19, versus 42.2% in high-income countries. Charlie Young on how our governments have created vaccine apartheid in the ruthless pursuit of Big Pharma profits.
Report: We Are Occupying an Israeli-Owned Arms Factory to Protest Zionist Settler Colonialism
An activist occupying an arms factory in Leicester
An activist occupying an Israeli-owned arms factory in Leicester speaks to Sophie K Rosa about the importance of direct action in opposing Zionist settler colonialism.
Analysis: The Tories’ Anti-Protest Clampdown Will Hit Black and Brown People Hardest
Zehrah Hasan, James Aiken and Callum Lynch
The government is introducing a raft of legislation to enhance police powers and quash dissent. As always, racialised protesters will be at the sharp end of this authoritarianism, write Zehrah Hasan, James Aiken and Callum Lynch.
Downstream: The Influencer Industrial Complex. Interview With Moya Lothian-McLean
The last few years have heralded the rise of the influencer: social media users who have, in essence, found a way to get paid for being themselves on the internet. But has this commodification of the self poisoned the public sphere? Or are we witnessing the end of gatekeeping – and the beginnings of a […]
Opinion: The Slumflower Beef Has Exposed the Limits of Influencer Activism
Ash Sarkar
A plagiarism dispute in which a Black influencer has demanded 'reparations' from her white peer demonstrates the limits of social media activism and a politics constructed around white guilt, writes Ash Sarkar.
Novara FM: The Bodies on the Gears: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm argues in How to Blow Up a Pipeline that the climate movement must act against the infrastructure of death. He joins James Butler to discuss.
Report: ‘They Lose Out on Being Kids’: The Activists Campaigning to End School Exclusions
Francesca Newton
School exclusions socially segregate the most vulnerable children, preparing them only for life in the margins. Francesca Newton reports on the activists calling for the punishment to be abolished.
Black Britannia: The Legendary Congress That Radicalised a Generation
Bryan Knight
In 1967, a radical congress brought together activists, artists and academics from around the world to discuss the most pressing issues of the day. In the final instalment of Black Britannia, Bryan Knight looks at the lasting impact that headlining speaker, American Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael, had on British Black radicalism.
Obituary: The Opposite of a Cynic: David Graeber, 1961-2020
James Butler
Novara Media would likely not exist without anthropologist and activist David Graeber, who died on Wednesday. He helped give us the confidence to start out, and the conviction that left media – and especially left media that is able to think for itself – actually matters, writes James Butler.
Report: How We Won: The Customers Who Saved Their Local Market
Laith Saad
Loyal customers banded together to save their beloved local market from eviction in what became one of the most innovative fights against gentrification in recent memory. Laith Saad reports in the first instalment of How We Won, a new series which celebrates the victories of grassroots campaigns across the country.
‘I Tried to End My Life’: Covid-19 Exposes the Injustice of ‘never-ending’ Prison Sentences
Naomi Larsson and Alexandra Genova
Under the new coronavirus restrictions, the safety and wellbeing of prisoners still jailed under the draconian and now-abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence will be put at further risk. In an exclusive video and article, prisoners currently serving the sentence speak to Novara Media about how they are being impacted.
Beyond Bernie: the Democratic Socialists of America Are Organising for the Bigger Picture
Eleanor Salter
For the Democratic Socialists of America, the project to change the horizons of American politics does not begin and end with the presidential race. The organisation's strength lies in its ability to organise at both an electoral and grassroots level, writes Eleanor Salter.
Opinion: The Criminalisation of Solidarity With Rojava Should Worry Us All
Iida Käyhkö
The arrest of British YPG recruit Dan Newey's father and brother shines a light on the government's escalating campaign to criminalise people travelling to Northern Syria to join the Rojava revolution, writes Iida Käyhkö.
Report: Activists Have Occupied an Abandoned High Security Police Station
Harriet Williamson
Activists have occupied the abandoned high security police station at Paddington Green, London. The successful occupation, which started on 7 February, has ambitions for creating a lasting impact in the local community. Harriet Williamson reports.