ACFM Microdose: The Communist Manifesto
The ACFM gang gather for a midwinter reading of one of the most influential political tracts ever written. Download a version online and follow along as Nadia, Keir and Jem reassess The Communist Mani...
3 Jan 20251h 31min
Novara FM: Why The Left Needs To Care About Crypto w/ Sam Hart
Having long promised to decentralise power, Bitcoin is looking more and more like it will end up as a tool of American power under Trump. But blockchains could also be used to empower local economies....
2 Jan 20251h 13min
Novara FM: Love Actually w/ Nathalie Olah
In Richard Curtis’ Love Actually, a selection of mainly white and middle-class Londoners seem to be living in a parallel universe – one in which the war on terror never happened and the ’90s never end...
24 Dec 202458min
Downstream: 2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke
On 10 December, Ash Sarkar, Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discussed an epoch-defining year and its implications for the future. Is Starmer screwed? Are expansionist wars back? Has ‘woke’ died? Find...
23 Dec 20241h 36min
Novara FM: Die Hard w/ James Butler
Die Hard is a perennial of festive TV, but is it really a Christmas movie? James Butler and Eleanor Penny explore what the 1988 action comedy reveals about corporate power, class antagonism, mid-centu...
19 Dec 20241h 11min
Downstream: Is Germany’s Economy Heading for Collapse? w/ Wolfgang Münchau
Just two months before a general election, Germany finds itself in a precarious position. The European project is fragile, the country’s manufacturing innovation has stalled, and Germany’s dependence ...
16 Dec 20241h 48min
Novara FM: We Need a New Wikileaks w/ Stefania Maurizi
In the 2010s, we found out that we were all being watched. A series of leaks, from Wikileaks and others, revealed that our governments were conducting mass surveillance operations on their own populat...
13 Dec 20241h 27min
Downstream: The Journalist Who Spent A Year With The Taliban w/ Ibrahim Nash’at
When the Taliban retook all of Afghanistan in 2021, it came as a shock to much of the West. The day after the last American soldier left, journalist and filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at flew into Kabul to sp...
9 Dec 202453min
