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Opinion: The Slumflower Beef Has Exposed the Limits of Influencer Activism

by 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.

Opinion: 9 Books for Getting to Grips With the Climate Crisis

by Gaya Sriskanthan, Chris Saltmarsh & Adrienne Buller

To accompany our ongoing Climate Focus, we asked some of Novara's friends to share their top reading recommendations for understanding the defining issues of the climate crisis.

12 Books for Understanding the Future of Work

by Sarah Jaffe, Dalia Gebrial, Jamie Woodcock & Craig Gent

To accompany our focus series on the Future of Work, we asked some of our friends to share their top reading recommendations for understanding changes to the organisation of work and our working lives.

Bookshops, Bannon and the Fight Against Fascism

by James Butler

In light of the recent attack on a socialist bookshop in London, James Butler examines the international rise of fascism and what the left must do to defeat it.

Novara FM: Novara FM: SNOW DAY!

Your hardy editors bring you a Snow Day Special, where James Butler, Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker talk conspiracy theories, books that changed them, desire in politics – and what their younger selves would think of them now.

The Case for Left Book Clubs

by The Left Book Club Collective

Although the digital revolution has transformed political organising forever, the left still needs a real-world social network in order to effect change: the Left Book Club collective.

12 Books White People Should Read in Preparation for Becoming a Minority in Britain

by Adam Elliott-Cooper & Ashok Kumar

Recent research suggesting that by 2066 white people will be an ethnic minority in Britain has caused a storm in the right-wing press. Here's a short reading list to help the white-dominated left prepare to fight capitalism from their new societal position.