Nina Power: Decapitalism
On #NovaraFM, Nina Power joins James Butler to talk about ‘decapitalism’ – from severed heads to sovereignty to contemporary anticapitalism and more.
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Radical Happiness: Lynne Segal
James Butler is joined by Lynne Segal, Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, and longstanding left feminist, to discuss radical happiness, utopia and political joy.
Sovereignty, Austerity, Nationalism: Britain and Europe
On #NovaraFM, Dawn Foster and Michael Walker join James Butler to discuss some of the driving forces behind recent political stories: sovereignty, austerity, nationalism.
The Future That Never Was: 1997 and After
On #NovaraFM, Richard Power Sayeed joins James Butler to talk 1997: the Macpherson Inquiry, Blair, Diana & more.
Peter Frase: Life After Capitalism
On #NovaraFM, James Butler speaks to Peter Frase of Jacobin, author of Four Futures, about life after capitalism and the politics of the future.
I voted remain, but ignoring the outcome would be terrible for democracy
'One of the major fault lines of this referendum was a hatred of elites'
James Butler on legal bids to overturn Brexit, and why this is toxic for democracy.
The Story of Europe: Terms of Engagement
James Butler traces the EU's present day faults back to its postwar inception in this bumper Terms of Engagement explaining the historical phenomenon of Europe.
Terms 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 organisation 'democratically'.
Terms 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.
Cops – What Are They Good For?
Since the police force was established in Britain in 1829 the list of their crimes, committed largely with impunity, continues to rise at an alarming rate. James Butler asks: is it time we started to question whether this broken institution actually does more harm than good?
7 Reasons ‘Radical’ Publishers are Getting OWNED by the Internet
Lawrence and Wishart, publishers of the Marx-Engels Collected Works (MECW), the most complete works available in English, recently issued an instruction to the Marxists.org internet archive to take down their digitised and freely-available copies of its text. Subsequently, the internet struck back.
5 Thoughts on Abolishing The Met
Owen Jones' debut column for the Guardian argued for the abolition of the Metropolitan Police. Here James Butler gives five reasons it doesn't go far enough.
