Welcome to the September 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical. And, of course, welcome to Andy ‘Quick Wins’ Burnham’s new Britain!

Welcome to the July 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical. It has been a torrid summer so far, both in terms of climate and, well, of everything else. We’re writing this intro in the direct after…

Welcome to the May 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! Like many Mays past, it’s been a dramatic month in UK politics. Much has been made of Reform UK’s apparent sweeping success in the …

Welcome to the March 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The horrors persist, but so do we. After a leaner issue last time, we come back with a fully stocked arts-centred issue this month, as our co…

Welcome to the March 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The horrors persist, but so do we. After a leaner issue last time, we come back with a fully stocked arts-centred issue this month, as our co…

Welcome to the January 2026 Issue of The Norwich Radical! In a month as dramatic as this one, the pressure is on modern media to be constantly moving, dragged from one statement, one atrocity, one …

Welcome to the November 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! As we write, reporting is continuing on the aftermath of COP30 the latest iteration of the often-impotent UN climate change conference.

By Sarah Edgcumbe The red poppy/white poppy/no poppy debate has become increasingly emotive in recent years, as certain right wing groups have co-opted it for their own warped ethno-nationalist cau…

By Rowan Gavin Between the increasing dominance of major platforms, the rise of so-called ‘AI’ services, and the spread of platform decay maximising profits over user experience, we’ve all seen the…

Welcome to the August 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The world continues to heat up in an all-too literal sense, and another scorching Northern hemisphere summer has brought the heat of oppress…

Welcome to the June 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! This month marks a year since Keir Starmer took power in the UK, and six months since Trump was reinstalled as President in the US. The mechan…

by Alex Valente Contains spoilers for Season 1 of Andor. I have no love for Disney. I have soured on most big franchise properties, including the juggernaut space fantasy that is Star Wars. I am ex…

The ideas, values and proposals presented here were originally published in zines by the Just Urban Alliance, a research initiative based at University of East Anglia led by Kavita Ramakrishnan, Ca…

Welcome to the March 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! We find ourselves inching closer to spring, a time of renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation. Many of us are already tired, and have been for som…

Welcome to the March 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! We find ourselves inching closer to spring, a time of renewal, rebirth, and rejuvenation. Many of us are already tired, and have been for som…

by Robyn Sands The United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on the 8th March in 1975, but the day actually has its roots in a variety of strikes and class struggles across industr…

by Sarah Edgcumbe CW: racism, violence, police brutality, suicide I’ll admit, the title of this article is posed in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but the underlying premise points to two concu…

Welcome to the January 2025 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The start of the year is ever a time of potential, a time for the new. And as we’re learning anew at the outset of 2025, the new can …

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By Lee Marsden Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of Liberation Theology, died at the age of 96 in Lima, Peru on 22nd October this year. Gutiérrez was one of the most significant radical theologians of …

Welcome to the November 2024 Issue of The Norwich Radical! The world has not, in fact, ended since last issue – despite an upsetting US election, the continuation of Western-backed genocides …

A progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

Welcome to the September 2024 Issue of The Norwich Radical! Thank you for bearing with us over the summer months as we took a break to recuperate some of our energy, and bring you another full issu…

by Sarah Edgcumbe Between January 1st 2022 and 25th November 2022, Israeli forces killed 199 Palestinian civilians, including 47 children, and at least 15 women. Perhaps the most high profile killi…

by Sarah Edgcumbe CW: racism, violence, police brutality, suicide I’ll admit, the title of this article is posed in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but the underlying premise points to two concu…

By Rowan Gavin Content warning: mentions of sexual assault, victim blaming, abuse and manipulation, transphobia Why do so many organisations and activists refuse to work with the Socialist Workers Par...

by Alex Valente Ten years ago, in May 2014, university students Cadi Cliff and Chris Jarvis had an idea for a progressive magazine combining analysis of politics and arts, bringing together voices fro...

Welcome to the May 2024 Issue of The Norwich Radical! This issue marks our tenth year since two UEA students, Cadi Cliff and Chris Jarvis, came up with the idea for our publication. Which means we hav...

A progressive analysis of politics and the arts.

Perspectives section writer Alice is a dyslexic TEFL teacher who achieved a B.Ed Primary, and always loves a challenge. She now focuses on blogging; writing about chronic illnesses and entertaining st...

by Robyn Sands The United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on the 8th March in 1975, but the day actually has its roots in a variety of strikes and class struggles across industrial...

by The Norwich Radical Editors It has been a bleak year. Unfortunately, this has become a recurring sentiment for our yearly review. In many ways, 2023 has felt like an escalation of the attacks by th...

By Sarah Edgcumbe The red poppy/white poppy/no poppy debate has become increasingly emotive in recent years, as certain right wing groups have co-opted it for their own warped ethno-nationalist causes...

By Sarah Edgcumbe The red poppy/white poppy/no poppy debate has become increasingly emotive in recent years, as certain right wing groups have co-opted it for their own warped ethno-nationalist causes...

by Sarah Edgcumbe Between January 1st 2022 and 25th November 2022, Israeli forces killed 199 Palestinian civilians, including 47 children, and at least 15 women. Perhaps the most high profile killing ...