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Downstream: The British Military is Actively Involved in the Gaza Genocide w/ Matt Kennard

Investigative journalist Matt Kennard joins Aaron Bastani to discuss Britain’s complicity in the genocide of Palestinians, following a series revelations published in Declassified UK. In an extensive conversation about the shifting sands of global se…

Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like? w/ Jodi Dean

After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism’ as the best way to describe our growing society of serfs and…

Downstream: We Have to Break Up With The USA w/ Angus Hanton

The ‘special relationship’ is central to how Britain conducts its foreign policy and perceives itself as a country. The argument goes: proximity to Washington allows London to maintain a semblance of its former prestige and power.

Novara FM: Rojava After Assad: Where Next for the Kurdish Struggle? w/ Elif Sarican

On the 8th December 2024, the Assad regime in Syria fell, replaced by a group of former jihadists called Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. In the north east of the country, in a territory called Rojava, a feminist socialist revolution has been ongoing for since…

Novara FM: The Absurdity of Rearmament w/ Khem Rogaly

The US is no longer supporting Ukraine. And, in response, the UK and Europe are rearming. The Germans are taking off their hallowed debt brake to allow it. The French want a European Army. And Keir Starmer is talking tough about the capabilities of t…

Downstream: Why Don’t We Have Any Hope? w/ Jonathan White

When we talk about politics – whether it’s the climate, the economy or constitutional reform – the thing that’s at stake is an idea of ‘the future’. These days, the idea of imminent societal or ecological breakdown necessarily means adopting the fram…

ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield

What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance…

Novara FM: Did Pandemics Make the Modern World?

Lockdown was one of the defining experiences of our lives, but it was far from unique in history. From the plantation to the infirmary and from the leper colony to the stay at home order, contagion and confinement are inextricably intertwined.

Downstream: Everything We’re Told About the History of the West Is Wrong w/ Josephine Quinn

In 1996 Samuel Huntington published ‘The Clash of Civilizations’. At the time its hypothesis was counter-intuitive. Despite the supremacy of the United States after the Cold War, the ascent of globalisation would not lead to the end of history,

Novara FM: The Decades Long Plan that Made Trump Possible w/ David Adler

Read any of the mainstream press at the moment and you’ll hear the same thing: major things are happening in America. But what if this sudden shift was an illusion? David Adler is Co-General Coordinator of the Progressive International,