Tag: capitalism
Long Read: The Left Won’t Win the 2020s by Clinging to the Corpse of the Labour Party
by Jonas Marvin
Downstream: Why It’s Eco-Socialism or Collapse
Climate change is better understood as climate systems breakdown, and it’s only through the lens of the latter that we can grasp the scale of the crisis ahead. On this episode of Downstream, Aaron Bastani is joined by Mat Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton to discuss their new book, Planet on Fire: A Manifesto for the […]
Analysis: What Does the European Super League Furore Tell Us About Modern Capitalism?
by Aaron Bastani
Analysis: The Suez Canal Block Told Us a Lot About Capitalism and Sovereignty
by Aaron Bastani
Review: Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?
by Aaron Bastani
Long Read: Money Can’t Free Britney – But a Strike Could
by Eleanor Penny
Opinion: How Harry and Meghan Quit the Royal Family to Join the US Aristocracy
by Ash Sarkar
Downstream: Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato
What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.
Novara FM: I Am Not My Work
Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.
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 […]
Novara FM: Capital, Care and Crisis
Analysis: The Rich Are Skipping the Vaccine Queue. What Are We Going to Do About It?
by James Meadway
Novara FM: Ten Years of #NovaraFM
Opinion: Sex and the City Is Back and I Couldn’t Help but Wonder: Will the Show Finally Throw Off Shackles of Capitalism?
by Eleanor Penny
The Bastani Factor: Britain Is Now Fyre Festival
During the Covid pandemic the failures of Britain’s model have become painfully clear, from 80,000 deaths to a test and trace system which isn’t good enough. The latest shambles on free school meals demonstrates that these aren’t the result of a few bad individuals, or random mistakes, but the result of forty years of privatisation […]