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Latest Episodes

Novara FM: What Will ‘Technoking’ Elon Musk Do in the White House? w/ Quinn Slobodian
January 23, 2025

Elon Musk is the most symptomatic capitalist of our era: obsessed with publicity, by many accounts a fanatical workaholic, and increasingly in bed with the far right. But how did he go from Obama-era

Downstream: Who’s Behind the Institute of Economic Affairs? w/ Kristian Niemietz
January 21, 2025

The Institute of Economic Affairs is one of the most powerful and secretive think tanks in the UK, known for promoting free-market Thatcherism as a solution to all of our economic woes. Whos behind i

Downstream: Woke Capitalism Just Collapsed. Here’s Why w/ Brett Christophers
January 16, 2025

Donald Trump is the next president. Meta, Walmart and McDonalds have forsaken their diversity policies. Elon Musk is demanding that Keir Starmer be removed as PM. Why is this all happening at the sam

ACFM Microdose: The Communist Manifesto
January 03, 2025

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

Novara FM: Why The Left Needs To Care About Crypto w/ Sam Hart
January 02, 2025

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.

Novara FM: Love Actually w/ Nathalie Olah
December 24, 2024

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

Downstream: 2024 Round Up: Gaza, Starmer and the Death of Woke
December 23, 2024

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

Novara FM: Die Hard w/ James Butler
December 19, 2024

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

Downstream: Is Germany’s Economy Heading for Collapse? w/ Wolfgang Münchau
December 16, 2024

Just two months before a general election, Germany finds itself in a precarious position. The European project is fragile, the countrys manufacturing innovation has stalled, and Germanys dependence

Novara FM: We Need a New Wikileaks w/ Stefania Maurizi
December 13, 2024

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