Novara FM was Novara Media’s first show – it’s now coming to an end.

On the final episode, Richard Hames sat down with Aaron Bastani, James Butler and Ash Sarkar to talk about 15 years of Novara Media.

What have we learned from a decade and a half fighting a media landscape that insists nothing can ever change?

A new product will launch next month. Animated by the same complexity and depth as Novara FM, it will be available both on this podcast feed and YouTube.

Is the UK still a liberal country? With terrorism laws criminalising speech around Palestine Action, it’s a serious question.

A growing gulf between public opinion and state policy on Gaza reveals a liberal order in decline.

Richard Hames spoke to Simon Childs about where our society is going.

The Trump Administration’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the tune of $45bn – a staggering increasing.

But the fight back has already started. The 2025 protests in LA sought to slow down enforcement of increasingly draconian migration rules.

Harsha Walia is the co-founder of ‘No One is Illegal’ and author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. 

She spoke to Eleanor Penny about the global fight against borders – and what we need to do now.

Escalation towards war with Iran has hit a pause. But for how long?

Eskandar Sadeghi is the author of Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran.

He joined Richard Hames to explain the strategy and history of this conflict – and what it means for the future of geopolitics.

And, of course, remember that the purpose of this war was to distract us from the Gaza Genocide.

Got a pension? Or a savings account? Arguably, its purpose is to align your interests with the interests of capitalism: when the market goes up, you benefit too.

All this means that the working class actually already owns lots of the assets around us, from companies to houses.

But how much control do we actually have?

Michael A. McCarthy is the author of The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It).

He spoke to Eleanor Penny about how we take back control of what is already ours.

Assuming you’re not reading this on your yacht, then the most contentious thing in the world is right beneath you.

Since the dawn of agriculture, peasants, farmers, landlords, and states have vied for control of the land.

Jo Guldi is the author of the The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights.

She spoke to Eleanor Penny about the history of that struggle, and how the struggle over the most basic condition of life is evolving now.

The genocide in Gaza has been the most automated in history.

Systems like ‘Lavender’ and ‘Where’s Daddy?’ reportedly speed up the process of tracking and targeting Palestinians.

The genocide’s brutality has been concealed behind the facade of technical neutrality.

So why are the companies working with the IDF also working with the NHS?

Eleanor Penny spoke to Matt Mahmoudi about the broken promises of big tech and war in the age of AI.

Keir Starmer stands accused of echoing Enoch Powell in his ‘Island of Strangers’ speech.

But who was this titanic figure in the history of British racism?

And how did he shape the far right’s existential struggle to understand Britain once it ceased to be a formal empire?

Eleanor Penny spoke to Kojo Koram about how to understand his influence in a renewed moment of national decline, and how his ideas poisoned the very political waters we swim in.

There will be a new party. And also, there already is one.

We put the strategies of Pamela Fitzpatrick, Jamie Driscoll and Shockat Adam head to head: do we need a new party? Should it be led by Jeremy Corbyn, or someone new? Or do we just need more independent MPs?

They debate Reform UK, attacks from the mainstream media, and what class politics means now.

You can listen to the previous episodes in this series in this podcast feed.

Communism is a classless, moneyless and stateless society. So far, so simple. And so far out of reach.

Or, we could define it differently, as “the real movement that abolishes the present state of things”. That’s how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels described it in the German Ideology.

Jasper Bernes is the author of The Future of Revolution, a book that aims both to clarify our ideas and to reignite our determination to make a fundamentally new kind of society.

He spoke to Richard Hames about the red thread of history, from the Paris Commune to Black Lives Matter, and on into the communist future.