The mountain has moved. An avalanche is rumbling with unstoppable force. The political landscape will be forever changed. A new party is coming over the horizon. Cut! It’s still too early to roll the credits on the thriller premiered by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. But creating an organised party that breaks the mould and […]| Tribune
The behaviour of the Israeli Government toward the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) is deeply concerning and demands urgent action from the UK government. True to form, the blatant lies and misinformation emanating from the Israeli Foreign Ministry have portrayed this humanitarian aid mission as an affront to democracy. The world needs to ask how delivering […]| Tribune
An insecure Labour Prime Minister, down in the opinion polls, taking the side of rogue shipowners against trade unionists in an ultimately futile attempt to appease the interests of investors? Keir Starmer, who sacked Transport Secretary Louise Haigh last year over her description of P&O Ferries as a ‘rogue operator’, would do well to look […]| Tribune
For all the noise they make about it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that free speech was something that the far-right championed unconditionally. But last week, that illusion fell apart, demonstrating that the movement’s definition of free speech comes with terms and conditions. Following his comments about the assassination of the right-wing political activist Charlie […]| Tribune
It’s important in politics to see the small details as well as the big picture. And so it was that in the fateful few hours that passed between the prime minister’s announcement of his government’s ‘second phase’ and the outbreak of problems with Angela Rayner, someone in the know briefed the government’s favourite papers (the […]| Tribune
Those of us on this side of the Atlantic have often heard, and even rallied around, the calls to ‘cancel the rent’. But rarely have we entered into the discursive terrain of abolishing rent altogether. Well, the latter is the nucleus around which Tracy Rosenthal’s and Leo Vilchis’ book Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End […]| Tribune
Come with me on my daily walk with my baby around Grangetown, Cardiff. At the bottom of Clare Road, heading south from Riverside, we pass a former night shelter (abandoned for five years now) obscured by mountains of rubbish dumped into its rotting shell. Further up the road, I recently passed a house in which […]| Tribune
The British working class are politically homeless. Their traditional party, founded by the trade unions, has turned its back on the people who built this country, and without whom it could not operate. In its place have emerged a string of opportunists claiming to be the voice of the average punter, but whose credentials just […]| Tribune
This month’s Reform UK conference held in Birmingham revealed the bizarre nature of the party’s inner workings and policy message. From the surprise appearance of Lucy Connolly to Andrea Jenkyn’s Eurovision main character moment, the conference seemed more like a fever dream than an event led by a supposed government in waiting. Yet nothing was […]| Tribune
Ali and Aya, brother and sister, were treated by Dr Nick Maynard in Al Aqsa Hospital last year. They were the sole remaining members of their family after their parents and siblings were all killed in an attack on the so-called ‘safe zone’ of al-Mawasi. Dr Maynard operated on them both, recollecting that, ‘I still […]| Tribune
As the sun began to set over the northern port city of Genoa, keffiyeh-bearing students and dockworkers gathered outside the Circolo Autorità Portuale e Società del Porto di Genova (Port Authority and Port Society of Genoa Club), waiting for a historic meeting to take place. The Unione Sindacale di Base (USB) and Collettivo Autonomo Lavoratori […]| Tribune
Every Saturday for the past seven weeks, a crowd of far-right protestors has gathered in a square in the city centre of Newcastle, outside a hotel housing asylum seekers. They arrive around noon, sometimes earlier, and usually stay till late in the afternoon. The protests, like anywhere, are a mixture of the threatening and the […]| Tribune
I’ve lived my whole life in the Cheshunt and Waltham Cross area, where I’m proud to serve on Broxbourne Borough Council. I will defend my town endlessly against those who talk it down, but that’s not to say we don’t have our problems. During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, a counter-demonstration just up the […]| Tribune
On the final day of performances of this ambitious double bill, the sun shines in Galway: there are tourists aplenty, buskers, and people stuffing the cobbled medieval streets of the town centre, largely set apart from the near-omnipresent traffic jams. Inside, the matinee atmosphere is distinctly different. It is cooler, but also convivial, comprising Galwegian […]| Tribune
The Prime Minister often evokes the idea that the government is for ‘working people’. He has to explain, therefore, why so many workers have moved away from Labour during his time in office. The truth, of course, is that the world of work has deteriorated rapidly for millions, and that the government is failing to […]| Tribune
It’s purely a coincidence. Nothing to see here, Number 10 insisted. Perish the thought that the reshuffle marked an entrenchment of the right and a further widening of the gulf between Labour and government. Deputy leadership contest? Bit of a nuisance really, and anyway, Keir’s already bypassed that and appointed a deputy PM. Job done, […]| Tribune
It turned out to be a summer of profound angst, with some unexpected, welcome surprises — the unrelenting horror in Gaza, ICE detentions in the US, and in Britain, massive protests along with a new left-wing political party. The sailboat Madleen, filled with aid and activists heading for Gaza, was boarded by Israeli soldiers who […]| Tribune
To undercut the far-right and strengthen the power of workers, we need to urgently deepen the purpose of the Trades Union Congress through real democratic reform.| tribunemag.co.uk
From the embrace of private hospitals to shady donations from private health interests, there is little to suggest that today’s Labour leadership intends to defend Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a truly public NHS.| tribunemag.co.uk
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In her lifetime, Shulamith Firestone, an art school graduate and leading figure in New York’s second-wave feminist movement, published just two books. Her first, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970), was a blistering theoretical salvo published when Firestone was only twenty-five. Amongst its more radical propositions, Firestone called for ‘ectogenesis’, the […]| Tribune
Throughout history, writers have received patronage from richer, more powerful members of their societies. They have also tested the limits of this patronage: Shakespeare, a member of the King’s Men, an acting company that had exclusive control over its productions, wisely set all his plays involving regicide outside England or in the distant past; Jane […]| Tribune
Two new exhibitions in post-industrial Wearside venture beyond stereotypes to present a nuanced vision of labour history, defying the obstacles working-class creatives face in modern Britain.| 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
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