The pattern is all too familiar. Someone commits a crime, the far right seizes on it as supposed proof of their racist theories about the origins of crime, a particular group is targeted on social media, and violence begins — often fuelled by conservative figures in parliament. This happened in the UK during the summer […]| Tribune
Nobody needs to be told that Keir Starmer’s father was a ‘toolmaker’. At a conservative count, he’s brought it up around 40 times in speeches, party political broadcasts and softball interviews. Nor do they need to be told that he enjoys watching Arsenal and playing football. These biographical claims have become so familiar that they […]| Tribune
Last month, Chris Worrall — the apparently ‘pro-housing’ Labour councillor and founder of Labour YIMBY — announced his defection to the Conservatives. As he did so, he claimed that Labour had become a ‘PIP and asylum seeker PAYEpig’, and that the party had extinguished hope for the burgeoning YIMBY movement. For the unfamiliar, YIMBY stands […]| Tribune
Inspired by the boycott of South African goods and apartheid-affiliated institutions in the St. Paul’s neighbourhood of Bristol, people in our city today are opposing the Israeli genocide by organising a community boycott of all Israeli fresh produce. The Bristol Apartheid-Free Zone was launched at last year’s Bristol Transformed festival with a call for local […]| Tribune
If you’ve spent any time at all on TikTok recently, you’ll have seen plenty of videos from young people despairing about life in the UK. Videos with captions like ‘Why is everything so expensive?’, ‘Why is rent so high?’, ‘Why can’t I get a doctor’s appointment?’ are going viral every day. With no clear answers, […]| Tribune
Nowadays, when I go to an art gallery, it’s usually to play. One big reason for this is that I have two small children: pretty much the only things they do when they’re awake are play, eat, and, if not playing or eating, complain. Another reason is that I live near the BALTIC gallery in […]| Tribune
There is an old European folk tale, which most of us know as ‘Chicken Licken’. In the course of the story, the title character wanders around telling various animals (Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, Turkey Lurkey) that the sky is falling down. They believe him, and together they head off on a mission ‘to […]| Tribune
I am one of 24 co-defendants collectively known as the Filton 24, and am currently being held at HMP Peterborough on remand (before trial) since November 2024. In August 2024, heavily armed police arrested me and one other person, pointing multiple large guns at us, flying a drone above our heads, while we were completely […]| Tribune
After years of trauma-induced inertia on the British left, something is stirring. Despite its initial false start — and some internal backbiting, aired unfathomably in the bourgeois media — around 650,000 people have signed up to register their interest in the new left-wing party recently announced by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. Should a majority […]| Tribune
In the past few weeks, the unexpected announcement by ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana of a new left-of-Labour party was received ecstatically by millions of people across Britain who are desperate to support a political force which will opposes Keir Starmer’s support for genocide and austerity. At the time of writing, over 650,000 people have signed […]| Tribune
In 2022, the Swedish digital bank and fintech giant Klarna laid off 700 permanent staff, hoping to replace the expertise and energies of hundreds of employees with a single, rational AI assistant that would apparently handle millions of different consumer conversations in dozens of languages. Yet the bots didn’t work out; almost immediately, customers began […]| Tribune
Last year, a TV listing in The Guardian described the glossy Second World War drama series Masters of the Air as ‘an addition to the Band of Brothers universe’. Intentionally or not, the phrase was oddly penetrating. Masters of the Air is instantly recognisable as the product of a franchise, one taking place in a […]| Tribune
When 19-year-old Sara Ginaite escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania during the winter of 1943, she had one clear objective. With the recent arrival of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the ghetto, it had become clear that its remaining Jews would soon be sent to their deaths. Attempts by Jews in Kaunas to link up […]| Tribune
There’s a meme I think about all the time: a grainy picture of a huge vertical brush, the kind you see in a drive-through car wash, first stationary and drooping, then spinning and puffed-up. ‘To be a woman is to perform’, it reads — an absurd medium reflecting the absurdity of the feminine act of performance. […]| Tribune
Long-time viewers of Adam Curtis’s BBC documentaries might see a trailer for Shifty, his new five-part online-only series, and wonder if it is saying anything new. ‘There come moments in societies when the foundations of power begin to move’ reads the caption, and we see Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Stephen Hawking, Ian Curtis, […]| Tribune
The final defeat of the Spanish Second Republic at the hands of Franco’s Nationalist rebels in 1939, after almost three years of bloody fighting and brutal repression, not only presaged the global conflict into which the world was about to sink, it also set the stage within Spain for what would come after the war. […]| Tribune
In 1961, at a bus station in Montreal, a young poet was waiting to meet an esteemed writer. The writer’s second novel, published the year before, had gained positive notices from William Burroughs and Norman Mailer. But now he was on the run from a death penalty notice, his heroin prescription having been found in […]| Tribune
In a contemporary Britain where pubs and clubs are closing at an accelerated rate, politicians are trying to ban band appearances, living costs are curbing consumption, austerity has become not just an economic regime but a way of life. Keir Starmer’s government is constitutionally joyless, his Grey Labour the overseer of austerity and the punisher […]| Tribune
Here’s a classic early episode of The Simpsons, in which Bart bunks off school to eat ice cream and sneak into the cinema, leaving his hapless school principal to trail him around Springfield. Arriving at the town’s youth club only to find the building empty and derelict, Principal Skinner utters the immortal words: ‘Am I […]| Tribune
In a world where economic stagnation and ecological deterioration threaten our very existence, we need to envisage a socialist transition based on the radical democratisation of utilities and governance.| tribunemag.co.uk
Robert Tressell, author of 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,' was born 150 years ago. His writing left an indelible mark on the socialist movement — but the man himself was almost forgotten by history.| tribunemag.co.uk
The new poetry collection by London writer Caleb Femi is a modern epic based on the institution of the ‘shoobs’ (or house party) and its under-explored experimental potential.| tribunemag.co.uk
Visionary Japanese sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki anticipated our present malaise decades ago, in writing that combines melancholy for the failure of sixties radicalism with scepticism about a world of ubiquitous screens.| tribunemag.co.uk
In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire is crumbling.| tribunemag.co.uk
As the Labour government criminalises Palestine Action under anti-terror laws, impromptu screenings of a new documentary about the group’s relentless campaign against the arms industry have spotlighted widespread public support for their cause.| tribunemag.co.uk
Far from being a threat to the British people, activists fighting for the Palestinian cause are in fact reflective of public opinion and helping to close the gap between international law and Britain’s support for Israeli oppression.| tribunemag.co.uk
Reform MP Rupert Lowe has criticised the ‘politicisation and filth’ of Glastonbury just days after suggesting that Palestine Action activists should ‘expect to be shot’. Is this Musk-endorsed maverick the future of Reform — or a new hard-right Tory party?| tribunemag.co.uk
In delivering his toxic ‘Island of Strangers’ speech on immigration earlier this week, Keir Starmer aligned with a bizarre conservative tendency inspired in equal measure by Enoch Powell and J.R.R. Tolkien.| tribunemag.co.uk
The government’s willingness to demonise migrant workers is a sign of its increasing moral degradation. Meanwhile, like their New Labour role models, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting are supremely relaxed about multinational involvement in the NHS.| tribunemag.co.uk
As the government slashes social security provision for the vulnerable, Rachel Reeves wants to relax her clampdown on ‘non-dom’ loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Nothing better illustrates how Labour has abandoned ordinary people to become ‘capital’s B-team’.| tribunemag.co.uk
Israel’s absence in recent negotiations between Trump, Hamas, and Middle Eastern leaders marks a crossroads in the US-Israeli relationship. Is Netanyahu losing support in Washington for his genocidal campaign?| tribunemag.co.uk
The relentless, punitive legal attacks against Palestine Action activists for disrupting Israel's war machine is a simple lesson about our country today — maintaining injustice abroad requires crushing dissent at home.| tribunemag.co.uk
