ACFM: Trip 46: Death
Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew face the inevitable.
Tag: death
Novara FM: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living
In an era suffused with loss and grief, for the dead and the yet to be born, how do we politicise our mourning? Critic Sarah Jaffe talks about her search for the ghosts of capitalism in her new book, From The Ashes.
Red Flags: I Have Incurable Cancer. How Do I Live the Time I Have Left?
Sophie K Rosa
Sophie K Rosa addresses a reader with stage four breast cancer, and shares her own relationship with death.
Analysis: Sheku Bayoh’s Death Shows Scotland Is No Progressive Haven
Jonathon Shafi
A public inquiry has finally opened into whether race was a factor in the killing of Sheku Bayoh in police custody. But whatever the outcome, his treatment in death is a harsh wake up call.
The Bastani Factor: How Britain Starved Ireland
Today the island of Ireland has a smaller population than it did 200 years ago. How did that happen, and what has it got to do with free market capitalism? Aaron Bastani explains how London politicians and Irish landlords exploited a crisis in the name of an ideology – in the process wrecking the lives […]
Feature: Changing Attitudes to Death Could Help Us Create a Fairer Society
Sophie K Rosa
Coronavirus has changed the way we grieve and forced more people to confront the reality of death. Is this an opportunity to radically transform our relationship to mortality? Sophie K Rosa reports.
Long Read: Labouring Through Birth and Death
Jenny Nelson
Birth and death both demand complex, intensive care work; of the sort dismissed by capitalism and silenced by societal taboos. In this week's Long Read, Jenny Nelson explores the labour of the beginning and end of life.
Novara FM: ‘The Lady Is Not Returning’ – Examining the Thatcher Legacy
On this week's show James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss the legacy of the recently deceased former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.