James Butler

Novara Media would likely not exist without anthropologist and activist David Graeber, who died on Wednesday. He helped give us the confidence to start out, and the conviction that left media – and especially left media that is able to think for itself – actually matters, writes James Butler.

A century ago today, Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by the German Freikorps, her body dumped in Berlin's Landwehr canal. But while her death has entered into socialist martyrology, her life and thought - and especially her manner of thinking - still has much to teach us, argues James Butler.

Owen Jones' debut column for the Guardian argued for the abolition of the Metropolitan Police. Here James Butler gives five reasons it doesn't go far enough.

James Butler speaks to a Balfron Tower evictee about social cleansing and mistreatment by Tower Hamlets council