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‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014

Aaron Bastani

Here Aaron Bastani takes a quick look at today's budget. Little has changed from the growth model leading up to the crisis of 2008 he says and the budget is filled with assumptions and projections that are bordering on delusional.

Novara FM: After Obama: US Politics Beyond 2016

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and Ashok Kumar ask what changing demographics and public attitudes mean for US politics after 2016.

Novara FM: European Elections 2014: Far Right Breakthrough?

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss this year's European elections. Is a breakthrough for the European far-right on the horizon and will it terminally undermine the European project?

Novara FM: Growth, Austerity, Poverty

On this week's show James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss Britain recent growth data. What does it tell us about austerity and what is it's relationship to declining wages and living standards?

Novara FM: Protest, Free Assembly and the Political Management of Austerity

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss moves in the UK since 2011 to inhibit freedom of association and assembly.

Novara FM: Failure of the 2010 UK Student Movement: A Diagnosis

This week's show asks why the UK student movement of 2010 proved incapable of enduring after the passage of the Higher Education Bill into law.

On University Strikes

In this brief video James Butler outlines what constitutes 'support' and acting in solidarity with striking workers in higher education.

Voices of Hackney Teachers on Strike

Interviews with striking teachers in Hackney on the third day of a regional NUT/NASUWT strike.

Burn Up Not Out; Four Suggested Projects

Aaron Peters

Aaron Peters discusses four potential projects for the social movement 'base' in the UK and why trade union funding to political parties, Labour or otherwise, is misguided.

Novara FM: Welfare ‘Dependency’ and the Crisis of Work

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the raft of incoming welfare reforms and their relationship to the political economy of austerity and any supposed 'recovery'.

Novara FM: Right On! Where next for Austerity Fundamentalism as Crisis deepens?

On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss 'the great moving right' show as crisis deepens and Plan A is seen for the abysmal failure it was always destined to be.

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