Interview: David Harvey
Professor David Harvey talks to Aaron Bastani about capitalism, crisis and social movements post-2008.
Tag: austerity
Interview: Natalie Bennett
Aaron Bastani questions the leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett, on the rise of UKIP, human-made climate change and the party’s proposal for a guaranteed basic income.
‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: 5 Things About #Budget2014
Aaron Bastani
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.
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?
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?
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.
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
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’.
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.