New Future

From Penguin Press to the Royal Festival Hall, British modernism was co-created by artists and intellectuals fleeing fascism in the 1930s. Juliet Jacques speaks to Owen Hatherley, author of a new collective biography of some of the movement's most important figures.

A new survey reveals the shocking extent of sexual violence experienced by bus and taxi drivers. Polly Smythe reports.

Following months of clamouring for a new left party, one has suddenly turned up. Richard Hames explains what we know so far.

The long-rumoured left party has finally been soft-launched by Zarah Sultana. While the mainstream media relitigates the he-said-she-said of the launch, we ask four Novara Media writers where they think the party should go.

From New York to Chicago, American politicians are pushing state-owned grocery shops as a way to make food cheaper, writes James Meadway. Meanwhile, our leaders continue scratching their heads.

An 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer were among around 25 people detained for defying the Palestine Action ban on day one.

Novara Media’s directors have written to Richard Hermer KC asking him to clarify how the proscription of Palestine Action will affect journalists. Rivkah Brown reports.

Zarah Sultana’s shock announcement that she’s quitting Labour to co-lead a new party with Jeremy Corbyn already has the usual media suspects sharpening their knives, Steven Methven writes.

As an Essex council cut a poverty hardship fund and cancelled a new medical centre, Michael Gove gave it money to pursue an injunction against climate protesters. Joe Sandler Clarke reports.

In mid-June, thousands of activists from over 80 countries set out from El Arish for Rafah - only to be kettled, beaten and dragged back to Cairo by police. The ill-fated protest has highlighted Egypt’s role in enforcing the blockade of Gaza. Tobiah Palm recounts it.

Scholar Mahmood Mamdani argued that racial representation without economic justice means nothing. His son turned that insight into a successful campaign, writes Kojo Koram.

Microsoft, Amazon and Google are among those helping Israel commit genocide in Gaza, according to a landmark report by UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

Wanting potentially opposing things can be painful, writes Sophie K Rosa - but seeing your sexual orientation as fluid can also be affirming.

Tomorrow, MPs will debate and vote on a measure to proscribe the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Novara Media stands opposed to this historic infringement on freedom of expression.