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ACFM Trip 33: Comedy
What’s the point of comedy? Stand-ups were at the forefront of the cultural backlash against Thatcherism, but today’s meme-driven lols are rarely in …
2 years, 9 months ago
Downstream: The Truth about the GDR w/ Katja Hoyer
In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and the experiment of communist East Germany came to an end. Yet for a while it was a successful project, raising …
2 years, 9 months ago
Novara FM: Much More Freedom Is Necessary W/ Sophie K. Rosa
Despite the gains won by a century of feminism, the conveyor belt of normie life still pushes us towards the nuclear family and the picket fence. We …
2 years, 9 months ago
Downstream: How the Media Lies About Palestine w/ Mohammed el-Kurd
Palestinians don’t often get to tell their own stories, and on the rare occasion they do it’s on highly limited terms. Ash Sarkar speaks to writer an…
2 years, 9 months ago
Novara FM: Atomic Split w/ Matthew T. Huber and Andrea Vetter
Since the 1950s, nuclear power has been met with a resounding “nein danke!” from many left-wing campaigners, even as it has become a fixture of the e…
2 years, 10 months ago
Downstream: Is the World Really Run by a ‘Leftist Elite?’ w/ Matthew Goodwin
Everyone rails against the elite, but who are they? The left would say it’s the billionaires, the media barons, the oil tycoons, and the 1% – those w…
2 years, 10 months ago
Novara FM: How to Blow Up The Box Office w/ Jordan Sjol
What if Das Kapital was made into a Marvel movie, with a team of workers fighting the supervillain ‘Capital’? Or if Silvia Federici’s Wages Against H…
2 years, 10 months ago
Novara FM: Eat Sleep Protest Repeat
What’s it going to take to save the planet? After another year of extreme temperatures and limp promises, climate activists are at a strategic crossr…
2 years, 10 months ago
Downstream: How We Ended Up With The Worst Media In The World w/ Ash Sarkar and Aaron Bastani
In The UK, the last few decades have shown the steepest decline in trust in the media globally, second only to Egypt. How did we get here? Is it as s…
2 years, 10 months ago
Novara FM: On The Frontiers of Deviance w/ Sita Balani
If we don’t believe that race is a scientific fact, why can’t we shake it off? The answer, according to Sita Balani, a lecturer at Queen Mary Univers…
2 years, 10 months ago