Keir Starmer’s Position on Austerity Is Almost Identical to the Tories’
Aaron Bastani
The difference? Labour is less honest about it.
Tag: social democracy
The Housing Boom Replaced Social Democracy. Now We Have Neither
Aaron Bastani
Could rising mortgage rates radicalise even the property-owning middle class?
Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All
James Meadway
16-24-year-olds want spending cuts over tax increases.
It’s Win or Die for Scottish Labour. So Why Is the Party Fighting to Lose?
Finn Smyth & Coll McCail
Anas Sarwar's charisma may not be enough to bring the party back from the brink today.
A Plague of Blue Locusts: On Police Power
Mark Neocleous joins James Butler to unravel the knot of police power, sovereignty and social order.
When Will China Be the World’s Most Powerful Country? Interview With Martin Jacques
Will the 2020s be the decade when power decisively shifts from the United States to China? How important is the country’s rise in broader historic context – and is that why we are seeing an emerging Cold War between Washington and Beijing? And do appeals to a ‘civilisation-state’ undermine the power of universal values and […]
The Socialist Manifesto: Bhaskar Sunkara
James Butler is joined by Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin, to discuss the past and future of socialism.
A Crisis of the Imagination | Aaron Meets Rutger Bregman
“Taxes” was the word on everyone’s lips after the annual Davos conference this year. The man who had dared utter it amongst the financial elite was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian whose no nonsense savaging of the establishment brought him viral fame. His latest book ‘Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There’ argues […]
For a Left Populism: Chantal Mouffe
On #NovaraFM James Butler is joined by leading theorist of populism Chantal Mouffe. They discuss populism left and right, sovereignty, the nation-state – and the durability of classical socialism
Public Capital and Transition: Robin Blackburn on the Corbyn Project
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Robin Blackburn, former editor of the New Left Review and professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, to discuss the political economy of Corbynism.
Killing Us Softly: A Short History of Biopower in the NHS
Sophie Monk and Joni Cohen
There’s No Going Back to Social Democracy
A.R. Naraghi
Larry Sanders: “We Don’t Really Know Who the Labour Party Is”
Josiah Mortimer
‘We are socialists, they are social democrats’: An Interview with Austria’s Socialist Youth
James McAsh
Opposition to Momentum’s Festival Comes From Fear of the New Politics It Represents
Andrew Dolan
The Problems of Podemos
Matt Myers
5 Things Jeremy Corbyn Could Learn from ‘Revolutionary Reformism’ in Sweden
Carl Rowlands
Is Labour the Exception?
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler ask if, and why, Labour is the exception among Europe’s faltering parties of social democracy