Tribune’s Tribunes

By: Liam Baker

In the 1960s, the Labour left organised around Tribune and tried to build itself into a parliamentary vehicle for socialism.

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In the aftermath of Labour’s fragile victory in the 1964 general election, Tribune‘s issue celebrating the end of thirteen years of Conservative rule proudly declared: ‘TRIBUNE takes over from ETON in the Cabinet!’ The frontpage displayed Harold Wilson alongside the left-wingers he had chosen for his cabinet: Anthony Greenwood, Barbara Castle, Frank Cousins, and Frederick […]

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In the aftermath of Labour’s fragile victory in the 1964 general election, Tribune‘s issue celebrating the end of thirteen years of Conservative rule proudly declared: ‘TRIBUNE takes over from ETON in the Cabinet!’ The frontpage displayed Harold Wilson alongside the left-wingers he had chosen for his cabinet: Anthony Greenwood, Barbara Castle, Frank Cousins, and Frederick […]

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In the aftermath of Labour’s fragile victory in the 1964 general election, Tribune‘s issue celebrating the end of thirteen years of Conservative rule proudly declared: ‘TRIBUNE takes over from ETON in the Cabinet!’ The frontpage displayed Harold Wilson alongside the left-wingers he had chosen for his cabinet: Anthony Greenwood, Barbara Castle, Frank Cousins, and Frederick […]

In the aftermath of Labour’s fragile victory in the 1964 general election, Tribune‘s issue celebrating the end of thirteen years of Conservative rule proudly declared: ‘TRIBUNE takes over from ETON in the Cabinet!’ The frontpage displayed Harold Wilson alongside the left-wingers he had chosen for his cabinet: Anthony Greenwood, Barbara Castle, Frank Cousins, and Frederick […]

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