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The issue which has, more than any other, shown the depth of hypocrisy in the international rules based order is Palestine. In Gaza, the world watched a genocide in real time. Despite massive global protests, the machine rolled on – yet Palestinians remain hopeful. 
Host Nick Dearden speaks with Omar Barghouti, founder of the BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanctions) Movement and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and a recipient of the Gandhi Peace Award. They discuss the source of hope in the face of ongoing atrocities, the continued devastation post-ceasefire, and what Trump’s approach to Greenland and Gaza means for the world order. 

In This Episode

Hope as a duty to future generations

The ceasefire as a means to continue genocide with less media coverage — and how complicit media outlets inadvertently contributed to continued solidarity by causing people to seek out alternate, direct coverage from the beginning

Israel’s use of genocide in Gaza as a smokescreen for unprecedented brutality in the West Bank, including the destruction of refugee camps

Israel’s policy of brutality toward Palestinian political prisoners in the West Bank

The links between the genocide in Gaza and corruption in the colonial West

Trump’s goal of undermining the United Nations with his ‘Board of Peace’

The history, evolution, and success of the BDS movement – and what’s next

Why solidarity begins with ending complicity

Boycott, Divest Sanction Movement
BDS Movement

Facebook: @BDSNationalCommittee
Instagram: @bds.movement
Twitter/X: @bdsmovement
TikTok: @bds.movement

Featured Organisation: Na’amod
Na’amod

Facebook: @NaamodUK
Instagram: @NaamodUK
Twitter/X: @NaamodUK

ABOUT THE PODCAST
COUNTER•POWER is brought to you by Stop Trump Coalition, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now, three organisations at the centre of the new global resistance. 
This podcast isn’t just about chatting and conversation — it’s about turning ideas into action and building real community power. 
That’s why we have a simple pledge to you, our audience. On every single episode we’ll leave you with something you can do to catalyse change. Whether it’s the latest big ideas or the movements you need to check out, you’ll find them on COUNTER•POWER. 
But we need your help to launch this project. 
We need £8,000 to catapult COUNTER•POWER into the podcasting sphere with the aim of making it self-sustaining in the future.
The funds will cover high-quality production – including sound and visuals – as well as consistent editorial quality, all of which are essential to creating the kind of impactful podcast we’re aiming for.
Any donation – big or small – can help us get there. Thank you for your support.
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Islamophobia and antisemitism are unfortunately no longer fringe. Increasingly open, increasingly violent, they are reshaping what it means to be Muslim or Jewish in Britain today. And yet these hatreds are rarely examined directly. Instead, they are instrumentalised, folded into debates about immigration, national security, public order, and foreign policy, in ways that often do not represent the actual communities. 
Host Zoe Williams is joined by Shaista Aziz from the Three Hijabis and Stop Trump Coalition, and Em Hilton, a Jewish organiser and writer based in London, and co-founder of Na’amod: UK Jews against Israeli occupation and apartheid. 
In this episode: 

How these prejudices have evolved in their distinctly 21st-century forms

The essentialisation of identity and denial of plurality 

The experience of being a British Muslim and a British Jew today

The ramifications of the Balfour declaration

Who gets to speak for a community, and how these communities are often used as shields for other issues

Featured Organisation: CADFA (Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association)
Facebook: @camdenabudis
Instagram: @c.a.d.f.a
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/camdenabudis

Links to things we discussed
How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women (Shahed Ezaydi)
Islamophobia and Securitization: Religion, Ethnicity and the Female Voice (Tania Saeed)
Huey P. Newton archive

Facing antisemitism: the struggle for safety and solidarity (Runnymede Trust)
Islamophobia: A Challenge For Us All (Runnymede Trust)
The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil (Philip Zimbardo)
ABOUT THE PODCAST
COUNTER•POWER is brought to you by Stop Trump Coalition, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now, three organisations at the centre of the new global resistance. 
This podcast isn’t just about chatting and conversation — it’s about turning ideas into action and building real community power. 
That’s why we have a simple pledge to you, our audience. On every single episode we’ll leave you with something you can do to catalyse change. Whether it’s the latest big ideas or the movements you need to check out, you’ll find them on COUNTER•POWER. 
But we need your help to launch this project. 
We need £8,000 to catapult COUNTER•POWER into the podcasting sphere with the aim of making it self-sustaining in the future.
The funds will cover high-quality production – including sound and visuals – as well as consistent editorial quality, all of which are essential to creating the kind of impactful podcast we’re aiming for.
Any donation – big or small – can help us get there. Thank you for your support.
DONATE HERE
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@globaljusticenow 
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@GlobalJusticeUK
@UKStopTrump
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Fascism has never really gone away—but it has changed shape. From the street-level racism and open organising of the British National Party in 1990s East London to today’s globalised far right, this episode traces how authoritarian politics have moved from the margins to the mainstream.
Host Nick Dearden draws on personal experience of anti-fascist organising, and is joined by Seema Syeda from the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and co-author of Creeping Fascism, and Luke Cooper, author of Authoritarian Contagion and academic at the London School of Economics. Their conversation explores how the far right has built international networks, institutions, and narratives that now feel disturbingly normal. They dig into why “fascism” remains a contested term on the left, what’s genuinely new about the current moment, and what can still be done to resist it.
In This Episode

The rise and fall of the BNP, street fascism, and the mass anti-racist movements that defeated it

Debates about whether “fascism” is the right label for today’s authoritarian politics

Key similarities and differences between past and present far-right movements

What a Reform government might actually look like in power, and whether figures like Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson represent fundamentally different threats

The “Unite the Kingdom” rally and what it reveals about the current far right

Featured Organisation: No to Hassockfield

No To Hassockfield

Facebook: The No to Hassockfield Campaign
Instagram: @no2hassockfield
Twitter/X: @No2Hassockfield

Links to things we discussed

Creeping Fascism by Neil Faulkner with Samir Dathi, Phil Hearse and Seema Syeda.
Authoritarian Contagion by Luke Cooper
A Town Within: Visiting Baqa’a Refugee Camp by Madihah Karim

What happened when I met my Islamophobic troll by Hussein Kesvani
The law of the jungle by Nick Dearden
Praxis: The essential guide for changing minds on migration

UNRWA: United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees
Time For Change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration system

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ABOUT THE PODCAST
COUNTER•POWER is brought to you by Stop Trump Coalition, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now, three organisations at the centre of the new global resistance. 
This podcast isn’t just about chatting and conversation — it’s about turning ideas into action and building real community power. 
That’s why we have a simple pledge to you, our audience. On every single episode we’ll leave you with something you can do to catalyse change. Whether it’s the latest big ideas or the movements you need to check out, you’ll find them on COUNTER•POWER. 
But we need your help to launch this project. 
We need £8,000 to catapult COUNTER•POWER into the podcasting sphere with the aim of making it self-sustaining in the future.
The funds will cover high-quality production – including sound and visuals – as well as consistent editorial quality, all of which are essential to creating the kind of impactful podcast we’re aiming for.
Any donation – big or small – can help us get there. Thank you for your support.
DONATE HERE
Follow Us 
Instagram
@anothereuropeispossible
@globaljusticenow 
@ukstoptrump
TikTok
@global.justice.now
@uk.stop.trump.coa
Twitter / X 
@Another_Europe
@GlobalJusticeUK
@UKStopTrump
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The first year of Donald Trump’s second term is over — with three long years still to go. Far from the myth of “Trump the peacemaker,” the past twelve months have been marked by war, repression, corruption, and growing global resistance.
In this episode, we take stock of Trump’s record so far: from bombing seven countries and backing Israel’s assault on Gaza, to embracing tech oligarchs at home and unleashing ICE against immigrant communities. 
But resistance is growing. From some of the largest protests in US history to mass demonstrations in the UK against Trump’s second state visit, a global movement is pushing back.
Host Zoe Williams is joined by Zoe Gardner from the Stop Trump Coalition and Alyssa Elliott from Indivisible London, the first international chapter of the major US resistance movement. Together, they explore what Trump’s first year tells us about the road ahead — and how movements can confront authoritarianism moving forward. 
In This Episode

One year into Trump’s second term: what has actually happened

The myth of “Trump the peacemaker” vs the reality of endless military action

ICE raids, police violence, and the targeting of immigrant communities

Mass protests in the US and UK — and what they’ve achieved

What global resistance to Trump looks like going forward — and why appeasement and fear are not the answer

ABOUT THE PODCAST
COUNTER•POWER is brought to you by Stop Trump Coalition, Another Europe Is Possible and Global Justice Now, three organisations at the centre of the new global resistance. 
This podcast isn’t just about chatting and conversation — it’s about turning ideas into action and building real community power. 
That’s why we have a simple pledge to you, our audience. On every single episode we’ll leave you with something you can do to catalyse change. Whether it’s the latest big ideas or the movements you need to check out, you’ll find them on COUNTER•POWER. 
But we need your help to launch this project. 
We need £8,000 to catapult COUNTER•POWER into the podcasting sphere with the aim of making it self-sustaining in the future.
The funds will cover high-quality production – including sound and visuals – as well as consistent editorial quality, all of which are essential to creating the kind of impactful podcast we’re aiming for.
Any donation – big or small – can help us get there. Thank you for your support.
DONATE HERE
Follow Us 
Instagram
@anothereuropeispossible
@globaljusticenow 
@ukstoptrump
TikTok
@global.justice.now
@uk.stop.trump.coa
Twitter / X 
@Another_Europe
@GlobalJusticeUK
@UKStopTrump
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To much fanfare, Britain has announced yet another "strategic" defence review - the fifth that a UK Government has undertaken in the last 15 years. The peculiar thing, however, is that despite the frequency of these reviews, they have a strong tendency to assert continuity over change.

This is certainly the narrative of the present UK Government's latest review: that nothing has changed in UK and US transatlantic relations, apart from the willingness, they suggest, of the UK to spend more on defence. Trump's close friendship with Vladimir Putin and sympathy towards Russia's geopolitical narrative - and the broader turbulence of American politics he forms part of - is, apparently, unimportant for Britain's future defence and security arrangements.

And rather than address the varied range of threats and challenges, the review advocates more submarines and nuclear weapons as its big-ticket proposals.

In this podcast, Zoe Williams, Luke Cooper and Mary Kaldor discuss this muddled and small-c conservative thinking. They lay out what an alternative defence policy would be, at the centre of which should be a closer relationship with our European allies. 

For more on the discussion in this podcast, check out Luke and Mary's recent blog, "‘Organised irresponsibility’: How Britain’s defence strategy clings to a bygone world"