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Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

by Sophie K Rosa

You’ve never heard of them, but asylum seekers have. Clearsprings is one of the many companies to which the government outsources asylum accommodation, and widely known to be the worst.

A row of police officers wearing covid masks

Long Read

Who Dreamt up the Police Bill? The Police, of Course

by Sam Knights

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill didn't come from nowhere. It is the result of years of lobbying by the police, helped by an authoritarian state, rightwing press and pliant opposition. Sam Knights takes a closer look at how it came into being.

Protest following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard in London

Protest following the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard in London

Opinion

With Our Right to Protest Under Threat, Collective Struggle Is the Only Way We Can Win

by Ilyas Nagdee and Azfar Shafi

A reveller at Newroz celebrations in Istanbul

A reveller at Newroz celebrations in Istanbul

Opinion

Erdogan’s Attempt to Ban Pro-Kurdish Parties Will Only Fuel the Resistance

by Rosa Gilbert

A fixed penalty notice form

A fixed penalty notice form

Opinion

You’ve Been Fined by the Police. What Can You Do About It?

by David Renton

Boris Johnson has the Covid-19 Vaccine

Boris Johnson has the Covid-19 Vaccine

Opinion

Even Without the ‘Vaccine Bounce’, Boris Johnson Would Still Be Winning

Jewish Leadership Council members sit in Number 10 for a meeting

Jewish Leadership Council members sit in Number 10 for a meeting

Opinion

If Jews Don’t Count As an Ethnic Minority, It’s Because We Haven’t Always Wanted To

Report

Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

by Sophie K Rosa

You’ve never heard of them, but asylum seekers have. Clearsprings is one of the many companies to which the government outsources asylum accommodation, and widely known to be the worst.

A row of police officers wearing covid masks

Long Read

Who Dreamt up the Police Bill? The Police, of Course

by Sam Knights

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill didn't come from nowhere. It is the result of years of lobbying by the police, helped by an authoritarian state, rightwing press and pliant opposition. Sam Knights takes a closer look at how it came into being.

#NovaraFM

Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs

'To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.' Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought.

#NovaraFM

After Storming Heaven

James Butler is joined by Laura Forster to trace the many red threads of the Paris Commune, which began 150 years ago this week.

Bill Gates at a UN press conference.

Bill Gates at a UN press conference.

Review

Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?

by Aaron Bastani

Bill Gates has written a book on how to avoid climate catastrophe. He claims that capitalism, with a historic dose of state intervention, can help us rapidly decarbonise. He might be wrong, but in approaching ‘net zero’ as an engineering problem - rather than a political question - he offers an important perspective from which the left can benefit.

TyskySour

The Suez Canal Blockage

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#NovaraFM

Luddites, Hackers, Saboteurs

'To be a good Marxist is to be a Luddite.' Gavin Mueller joins James Butler to explore rebellions against technology and the seductions of technological thought.

#NovaraFM

After Storming Heaven

James Butler is joined by Laura Forster to trace the many red threads of the Paris Commune, which began 150 years ago this week.

#NovaraFM

In the Cookshops of the Future

Peter Hudis joins James Butler to gaze into the future – and explain why the left must stake a claim to it.

#NovaraFM

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

James Butler is joined by Katherine Angel to explore the politics of bad sex, consent culture - and how we might think better about the difficulty of sex and power.

#ACFM

#ACFM Trip 14: Desire

The #ACFM gang explore the political power of desire, from the storming of the Capitol to the Corbyn cult.

#ACFM

#ACFM Microdose: Tabitha Bast on Dating and Desire

Do dating apps leave us unprepared for offline love? Nadia Idle talks to psychosexual therapist Tabitha Bast about the politics of desire.

#NovaraFM

I Am Not My Work

Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.

#NovaraFM

Capital, Care and Crisis

Emma Dowling joins James Butler to discuss care in the shadow of capital.

TyskySour

The Suez Canal Blockage

Articles

Bill Gates at a UN press conference.

Bill Gates at a UN press conference.

Review

Can We Solve the Climate Crisis Without Ending Capitalism?

by Aaron Bastani

person holding fake covid passport

person holding fake covid passport

Analysis

Vaccine Passports Could Be a Dystopian Nightmare

by James Meadway

radio towers across rolling hills

radio towers across rolling hills

Analysis

How We Win: The Media

by James Schneider

Mark Rutte waves

Mark Rutte waves

Analysis

The Dutch Left Was Savaged at the Polls – but Its Policies Remain Unscathed

by Merijn Oudenampsen

Opinion

Rising Unemployment Is Making Us Depressed. But We Are More Than Our Work

by Harriet Williamson

A Bolivian woman with a flag against a rural landscape

A Bolivian woman with a flag against a rural landscape

Analysis

How We Win: The World

by James Schneider

Analysis

Unfinished Revolutions: How Syria’s Uprising Turned Into a War

by David Wearing

A red box sitting on a green table in front of a Union Jack flag

A red box sitting on a green table in front of a Union Jack flag

Analysis

How We Win: The State

by James Schneider

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Independence for the North of England | Interview With Philip Proudfoot

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