Anarco-Syndicalism – A New World in The Shell of The Old?
On this week’s show Aaron Peters is joined by ‘Joseph Kay‘ from Solidarity Federation as they discuss anarcho-syndicalism as an approach to working-class organisation
View ArticleWhat is the Role of the Intellectual Within Crisis?
On this week’s show Aaron Peters is joined by Federico Campagna as they discuss the role of the intellectual in relationship to the body politic before focusing on the role of the intellectual (or lack...
View ArticleDEBT>DEBT>DEBT
On this week’s show Aaron Peters is joined by David Graeber author of ‘Debt: the First 5,000 Years’ as they discuss debt embedding it within the context of the Great Recession.
View ArticleWhat is Revolution?
On this week’s show Aaron Peters and James Butler discuss the concept of revolution – is the binary of reform and revolution a useful one in informing ‘what is to be done’? NOTES ‘Revolution’...
View ArticleFor the Mob
Certain of our esteemed betters who scrape their living together in disreputable papers telling us all what we should think have of late become obsessed – haunted – by the spectre of the mob, which has...
View ArticleEngland and the Politics of Englishness
On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Peters are joined by Niki Seth-Smith as they discuss the politics of English nationalism and ‘Englishness’.
View ArticleUtopia and Ideology: Bacon’s ‘New Atlantis’ to Bitcoin
On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss the relationship between utopia, politics and technology asking ‘what is the utopia of capital‘?
View ArticleIMO: Why Is Britain A Post-Industrial Economy?
Aaron looks at how capitalism evolves to deal with labour struggles.
View ArticleCommunal Luxury
On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani are joined by Kristin Ross as they discuss her new book “Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune”.
View ArticleOMFG: When Were White People Invented?
Ash Sarkar asks the people of London one question: When were white people invented?, looking at the way racial structures have emerged in the past and where that leaves the identity of ‘whiteness’ today.
View ArticleThe Invention Of Whiteness
On this weeks Novara FM, Ash Sarkar is joined by Kerem Niscanioglu as they discuss the discursive formation of whiteness thoughout history. Click the Resource links to see the paintings referenced on...
View ArticlePost-Colonial Ecologies
On this weeks #NovaraFM Ash Sarkar discusses climate, conquest and capitalism with Anna Lau from Platform, a group involved in ecological justice movements, and James Butler.
View ArticleAfter the Fall: When Political Movements Fade but Change the World
On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani talk about failure, triumph and the history of modern revolution.
View ArticleParis Attacks: The Aftermath and the History
This week Ash Sarkar is joined by Eleanor Penny, James Butler and Sam Kriss to discuss the Paris attacks, the political responses and how they can be understood in the context of migration and...
View ArticleTerms of Engagement: Ideology
In this new series for Novara TV, James Butler looks at the history and multiple usages of the word ‘Ideology’ and explores how it can be usefully deployed to describe and improve the world we live in.
View ArticleIs Political Art Good?
James Butler and Ash Sarkar discuss the potential for art to succeed in articulating radical politics without being dogmatic or trite.
View ArticleTerms of Engagement: Democracy
Democracy is something we can all agree on. But what does it actually mean? James Butler looks at the many ways the word gets used politically and what it means to attempt to run a government or an...
View ArticleIMO: No Problem with Genocide? Britain, have a word with yourself
As a recent poll shows the majority of Britons do not explicitly object to their countries colonial history. What was the full scale of the damage caused by empire? And how can we make amends?
View ArticleOMFG: What is Islamophobia
Ash Sarkar examines how a state-sponsored distrust of ‘Muslimness’ in the west has led to the emergence of new racisms, blurring the boundaries between scientific and cultural definitions.
View ArticleIdentity Politics: What’s Your Position?
On this week’s show Ash, James and Aaron discuss some of your questions about identity politics, where does the term come from and how can it be useful in understanding the history of our identities?
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