In Solidarity is an openDemocracy podcast about people, power and politics, co-hosted by our editors based in London, Abuja and Montevideo and featuring guests from the around the world.
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In Solidarity is an openDemocracy podcast about people, power and politics, co-hosted by our editors based in London, Abuja and Montevideo and featuring guests from the around the world.
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What can we learn about the future of consumer rights from the merger between Microsoft and Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard?
When Labour came into power in 2024, they accused regulators like Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of inhibiting growth and appointed influential figures from the business world into key positions and advisory roles. This includes a former Amazon boss being made the head of the CMA, or as one lawyer observed “A monopolist had been appointed to lead the anti-monopoly watchdog”.
In today’s episode Ethan Shone tells us what we can expect from a government that has put growth and prosperity for business ahead of the rights of everyday consumers.
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Presented by James Battershill
Story production by Ayodeji Rotinwa
Audio engineering by James Battershill
Special thanks to Indra Warnes
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:28 Why do regulatory bodies matter?
04:35 Who is influencing the CMA now?
07:25 Why are Labour taking this 'anti-consumer' approach?
10:15 Who should we be paying attention to?
14:09 What can we expect from Labour based on this trajectory?
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Did Western media manufacture consent for Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza?
In the last two years since Hamas' attack on Israel, and the latter's bombardment of the territories of Palestine it partially occupies, mainstream media particularly in the U.S. and Europe have broken their own rules of fairness, accuracy, conflict of interest, objectivity and so-called "neutrality" in their coverage of Israel's actions.
They have often repeated the Israeli government's statements as fact without critical context or analysis; for example the fact that Israel was considered to be imposing apartheid on Palestinians long before October 7th. They have underreported or omitted major events from coverage including attacks on aid flotilla for Palestinians or Israeli declarations of intent to commit genocide. In some cases it has been discovered that some news organisations hired former soldiers of Israeli Defence Forces, as reporters without disclosing this affiliation to their audience.
Lila Hassan, an independent investigative journalist and educator who has worked closely with many outlets in the West in the last two years and prior - and has seen the media's role in shaping this conflict firsthand, joins us today to discuss how we got here and the real world harms of the media failing at delivering the one sacred thing required of journalists: the truth.
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Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
Clips from Boston Globe, Al Jazeera, SJS news
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
05:45 We MUST say genocide
07:06 The tipping point
11:25 The forbidden words
14:44 Societal understanding vs Journalism
20:02 The perception of language
23:28 Western media betrays itself
27:30 Conflicts of interest in reporting
31:12 Misrepresentation from the media
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In early September, Nepal witnessed massive protests under the banner of GenZ protests to demonstrate against what they viewed as a hopelessly corrupt and sclerotic regime.
The immediate trigger was a government ban on social media apps, but as the protestors themselves have made clear – their grievances run much deeper.
The protests in Nepal bear parallels to similar uprisings in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh last year. On this episode, journalists Roman Gautam and Aman Sethi discuss if we are witnessing a South Asian version of the Arab Spring.
http://www.himalmag.com
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Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:56 A week after revolution
06:38 How widespread were the protests?
07:55 The South Asian spring
12:40 Discord democracy
18:56 Respect for elders
23:42 What's next for Nepal?
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The world is rightly horrified by how US President Trump is deporting people, including minors, without due process. Something similar is underway in India, but worse and under the radar. Even since the border skirmishes between India and Pakistan this year, Indian authorities have been rounding up Muslim citizens and deporting them on the spurious grounds that they either Pakistani or Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Abhishek Saha is an Indian journalist and author of No Land's People. He joins us on the show to discuss the devastating impact of India's forced deportations.
Read No Land's People: https://harpercollins.co.in/product/no-lands-people/
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Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:44 What's happening in India?
05:02 Why Bangladesh?
07:05 The global pushback against migration
12:39 Punishing inherited people
14:42 Who determines what people are 'undesirable'
17:50 Identifying outsiders
21:48 Abusing bureaucracy
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As Labour marked a year in government, Fawcett Society's Penny East asks: what has Labour done for women? And what needs to happen next?
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Credits:
Presented by Sian Norris
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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00:00 Introduction
01:50 The positive impacts of the Labour government
04:38 Third party sexual harassment and the so-called 'Banter ban'
07:35 The online backlash against feminism
09:10 Decriminalisation of abortion
10:05 Unfulfilled promises
12:28 Traumatic failures around maternity care
14:30 Labour's attitudes towards poverty and welfare
16:56 Financial vulnerability and abuse
19:03 Halving violence against women and girls
22:09 The online safety bill
25:39 Legislation is lagging behind
31:55 What does solidarity mean to you?
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Patriarchy refuses to die. In every country of the world, women are oppressed by male violence, patriarchal religions, and ideas of the family. But women are resisting, as Rahila Gupta explains, in a fascinating analysis that takes us from Riyadh and Russia, to Rojava.
Buy Planet Patriarchy: Global Tales of Feminism and Oppression: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9781805262879
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Presented by Sian Norris
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Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:30 Why write Planet Patriarchy now?
03:37 The violence of patriarchy
09:47 Family can be a form of violence
11:32 The women-led revolution in Rojava
16:56 The privilege of non-violence
21:07 Rojava's fragile future
22:31 What does solidarity mean to you?
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Content warning: This episode discusses sexual assault, rape and trauma.
When our investigative reporter Sian Norris heard worrying claims about a Silicon Valley-style start-up targeting rape survivors at universities in Bristol, she knew she needed to uncover what exactly was going on.
Over the next six months, Sian interviewed more than a dozen people on and off the record, sent multiple FOI requests and reviewed countless social media posts.
Working with a Lucy H Watson, a student at Bristol university, Sian uncovered the concerns raised by students, universities and the police about Enough's approach, that sexual violence experts have issues with its methodologies, and that one of the organisation’s co-founders has links to a former beauty queen who described sexual assault as a “multi-billion-dollar industry”.
Read Sian and Lucy’s investigation:
Lucy has set up a Student-led Instagram account raising awareness about Enough and their self-swab kits:
https://www.instagram.com/enoughofenoughbristol/
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00:00 CONTENT WARNING
00:12 Introduction
02:17 What is Enough?
03:56 Investigating Enough
05:07 The US connection
06:55 Have rape self-swab kits ever been used in a criminal prosecution?
08:42 Experiences of Enough 'in the wild'
11:12 A lack of sensitivity
12:47 How unique is Enough's solution?
16:16 Visibility for victims
19:23 Is there evidence of Enough's 'assault prevention' claims?
20:52 Using the vulnerable as test users
22:38 Is there any harm in using the kits as a backup?
24:41 What data is collected and how is it protected?
27:46 How is the company organised?
28:38 Concerns over how Enough was pitching itself to Universities
29:48 How revolutionary is Enough really?
32:16 The shocking belligerence of Enough
33:20 What does solidarity mean to Lucy?
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This is the first episode of our new mini-series exploring the financial interests of political parties in England and Wales.
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has banked almost £5m from wealthy donors since 2023, including those with links to fossil fuels, the financial services industry and tax havens. It has also received significant financial investment from the general public in the form of party memberships.
There seems to be a tension between the party’s desire to be seen as a grassroots, ‘by the people, for the people’ movement and its efforts to court the very billionaires its supporters believe they are rallying against.
openDemocracy’s investigations reporter, Ethan Shone, examines this contradiction, discusses what Reform’s future might look like and asks whether the UK media is right to dedicate so much time to the party.
Read Ethan’s investigation: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/reform-uk-funders-nigel-farage-5-million-donations-fossil-fuels-tax-havens/
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Credits:
Presented by James Battershill
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
02:44 How was this data sourced?
04:25 What's the cut-off for reporting?
05:20 How does Reform's income compare to Labour and The Conservatives?
08:47 Off-shore benefactors for political parties
11:22 The people of note who back Reform
13:22 Backers shifting from Conservatives to Reform
14:34 George Cottrell - an unofficial aide?
17:49 The phantom punishments
19:22 What's Reform's future looking like?
23:48 Should we even be talking about Reform?
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On 17 June 2025 UK Parliament voted to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales, reversing a Victorian-era law. The amendment will prevent women from being prosecuted for ending a pregnancy after 24 weeks or without approval from two doctors.
We spoke to our senior investigative reporter Sian Norris, author of Bodies Under Siege: How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global.
Get Bodies Under Siege by Sian Norris: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/8711/9781839764738
Read Sian’s full piece on this vote: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/mps-vote-decriminalise-abortion-important-increasing-prosecutions-global-backlash-us/
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Presented by James Battershill
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
00:55 A huge achievement for women's reproductive rights
01:55 'Isn't abortion already legal in the UK?'
07:19 The 24 week question
09:44 Telemedicine
13:24 What does this mean on a global level?
14:51 What happens next?
17:22 On to the next fight!
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Earlier this year, openDemocracy explored how successive governments had cracked down on protest rights. Now, with Just Stop Oil activists facing lengthy sentences for "conspiring" to commit protest offences, the impact of these laws is being felt more than ever. We sat down with human rights lawyer Katy Watts to discuss the sentencing, and how she and the NGO Liberty won a legal challenge against the government's new protest laws.
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/
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Presented by Sian Norris
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Long sentences for protestors
03:21 Protestors new-found reluctance
05:41 Broadening definitions of what is criminal
08:30 A framework for authoritarians
09:50 What inspired the clamp down on protest?
12:10 Holding the government to account in court
16:04 Labour defending Conservative policies
18:28 What happens to those arrested unlawfully?
19:35 Neutering protests
21:12 These protest laws target everyone
24:56 Concerns about Labour's approach to protest
27:37 What does solidarity mean to you?
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Boomers ruined everything, Millennials are work-shy and Gen Z can’t comprehend anything that isn’t a TikTok dance. Generational language defines the way we think about broad cohorts of society, but is this way of viewing the world dividing us further at a time when solidarity has never been more important?
Tom Nicholas, a writer, filmmaker and YouTuber, joins us to discuss his latest film Boomers: The Rise of Gerontocracy, generational language and whether Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z are really that different to each other or are just one generation shaped by the financial crisis.
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Presented by Aman Sethi
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
03:00 Is generational discourse useful?
08:20 Shrinking generations
11:07 The long shadow of the financial crisis
13:47 How is generational language shaping politics?
15:47 What makes boomers different from other generations?
18:01 Is it time to redefine generations?
20:56 The Covid generation
22:55 Intergenerational solidarity
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This week on In Solidarity, we're in discussion with openDemocracy's senior investigative reporter and feminist activist, Sian Norris. Sian joins us on the podcast to reveal how recent laws are quietly dismantling the right to protest in the UK.
Drawing on six months of in-depth reporting, Sian breaks down the true impact of the Public Order Act 2023 and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. These laws allow protests to be stopped before they even begin, based on little more than suspicion.
What does this mean for democracy, and who is being targeted? From activists to everyday citizens, no one is exempt. This is a must-listen for anyone concerned about the increasingly authoritarian political climate in the UK -- and around the world.
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Credits:
Presented by Carla Abreu
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
01:51 Why investigate protest?
04:56 What are the PCSC and POA?
10:28 What's a 'serious disruption'?
11:53 Who do these rules target?
16:49 We're all 'arrestables' now
19:42 Are all protests targeted equally?
22:52 Targeting BLM and XR
25:56 How does the party of free speech justify suppressing protest?
29:25 The carol service crackdown
32:28 Why don't Labour 'undo' this?
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As a young woman in 1980s Iran, Nasrin Parvaz was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by the Iranian regime. In this moving interview, she shares her experience of torture and incarceration, reflects on the successive women's revolutions in Iran, questions the West's ideas of regime change, and offers a powerful call for global sisterhood.
http://www.nasrinparvaz.org/web/tag/https-www-victorinapress-com-product-one-womans-struggle-in-iran-a-prison-memoir/
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Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Being a female prisoner in Iran during the 80s
04:33 Stolen Trauma
05:59 A friend still imprisoned
09:11 Those who paved the way
12:32 The resistance lives on
16:35 What's next for Iran's women?
18:16 Global Sisterhood
20:40 Hubris of the west
23:27 Torture's global supporters
25:57 Hopes for the future of Iran
28:00 What does solidarity mean to you?
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For many years, politicians have sold the public a simple story: The answer to undocumented immigration is a strong, fortified border. This story has a seductive, common-sense reasoning — but it is also wrong.
Decades of research has shown that people determined to move, find a way to move.
And when States respond with border controls, people turn to smugglers to circumvent these controls; and on and on this cycle goes with increasingly militarised borders on the one hand, and increasingly desperate people on the other.
But politicians don’t want to engage with this research, when it is much more politically palatable to spend billions buying shiny technology from private corporations to prop the myth of strong borders.
Our guests today have published research that shows the UK government has spent over 3.5 billion pounds in public money to support a sprawling, almost entirely privatised, apparatus to stop desperately vulnerable people from using small boats to cross the English channel and apply for asylum in the United Kingdom.
Listen in to learn more
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Presented by Aman Sethi
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
03:30 The manufactured border crisis
06:30 How to understand borders
11:20 The economic migrant 'myth'
15:09 The Borders industrial complex
18:08 Technological underpinnings
22:20 Investigating surveillance contracts
25:09 Companies profiting from war and refugees
28:25 We're all complicit
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Community organisers around the world have long argued that to change a country, canvas a community. But is that really true?
In this episode, we catch up with someone who literally wrote the book on the subject. Our guest George Goehl started organising in a soup kitchen in Southern Indiana 30 years ago in the Clinton era and continues to do so in the time of Trump.
Listen in to understand how to fight effectively for change and why immigration is such a divisive issue.
The Fundamentals Of Organizing - George Goehl
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Edited and produced by James Battershill & Ayodeji Rotinwa
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
01:18 How to George get into community organising
05:37 The state of rural America
08:12 Can community organising go national?
11:45 Recharging for the fight ahead
12:45 The public opinion of migration
16:30 AD - The World Unspun podcast
17:55 Progressive meekness
21:31 Meaning making
23:37 How progressive are Democrats really?
25:54 Political vs Community organising
28:55 Tangible change
34:01 Tales from the doorsteps
36:55 What does solidarity mean to you?
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The already fraught relationship between the United States and South Africa has been put under even more strain with Donald Trump's decision to cut foreign aid, not to mention South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ.
Menzi Ndhlovu, a political economist and risk analyst at Signal Risk a risk analysis consultancy focused on Africa, joins us to discuss this critical moment for South Africa.
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Presented by Aman Sethi
Edited and produced by James Battershill & Ayodeji Rotinwa
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
00:00 Introduction
02:51 South Africa's support for Palestine
09:19 The street that caused a geopolitical issue
14:06 How the ANC has changed
16:26 Trump's issues with South Africa
22:10 Musk's issues with South Africa
24:10 Is the US trying to bring South Africa to heel?
28:00 How can South Africa appease the US?
31:30 Is there an upside to the rift with the US?
34:28 South Africa's moral quandary
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Danny Sriskandarajah is the author of Power to the People: Use your voice, change the world
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Jimmy The Giant is a popular YouTuber who did what many would consider to be beyond the pale - he changed his mind about politics. Jimmy went from heading down the right wing pipeline of self improvement gurus to U-turning and becoming, dare we say, ‘woke’.
In today’s episode Aman Sethi talks to Jimmy about how and why he changed his mind about the political landscape and together they examine the changing online landscape that is making it all too easy for mainly young men to slip gradually into the world of alt-right politics.
Jimmy the Giant: @JimmyTheGiant
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Borders patrolled by AI-powered robotic dogs once seemed like something purely in the realm of dystopian sci-fi novels. But the border industrial complex is working hard to make them a part of our (still dystopian) reality.
Petra Molnar, author of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, joins us to discuss the militarization of border technologies, the racial politics of migration and the complexities of being both a refugee and an economic migrant.
Petra is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing in migration and human rights. She is the co-creator of the Migration and Technology Monitor, a collective of civil society, journalists, academics, and filmmakers interrogating technological experiments on people crossing borders.
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Something strange is happening in Germany.
Last year, the Alternative for Germany or AFD, as it scored, became the first far right party to win a state election in Germany since World War Two. Then in February this year, the AfD came second in Germany's national elections, with 20% of the votes.
The AFD isn't just another populist right wing party. Members of the party have consistently downplayed the horrors of Nazi Germany. What is happening?
Georg Diez, journalist, writer, and author of a Tipping Points: From the promises of the 90s to the crises of the present joins us to discuss how he believes we're witnessing the birth of a new form of far-right politics and should prepare ourselves accordingly.
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