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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Stuart Jeffries’ new book charts a lively history of postmodernism from the 1970s to the millennium through a discussion of pivotal artworks, pop cultural figures, cultural theorists and political events. But are we really still living in ‘postmodern’ times?
Ignore the sepia filter — Call the Midwife, which returns in 2023, has long been one of the most radical programmes on British television.
A hundred years after its emergence, modern architecture is still controversial. Our Library this issue looks at how it came into being and some of its suppressed histories.
The post-war New Town in Bulgaria has just celebrated its 75th birthday. Its combination of Stalinist aesthetics and post-socialist kitsch is all that the country’s elites find shameful, but there is still life in this ‘city of the future’.
Alex Niven speaks to Tribune about his new book The North Will Rise Again – an attempt to revive a future for the North from its modernist, radical traditions.
The weekend wasn’t handed to us on a platter – it was fought for tooth and nail by the working-class.
This week, Amazon workers in Coventry have embarked on a second wave of historic strike action. Picket lines are bigger, workers are louder – and resolve is stronger than ever.
Pigeon racing was once understood as a pastime of the elite, but in the twentieth century it established firm roots in Britain’s mining communities – and the bird became known as ‘the poor man’s racehorse’.
The looming Qatari takeover of Manchester United underlines how football clubs are now the playthings of oligarchs and repressive regimes. It’s time to reclaim the game and fight for fan ownership.
The earthquake that struck Turkey last month was a natural disaster, but the staggering death toll is the result of political decisions to allow construction firms to dodge building safety regulations in pursuit of profit.
The failure of politicians to address the cost of living crisis has created the conditions for a resurgence of the far-right – and we need a strong trade union movement to defeat them.
On this day in 1970, activists took to the streets of Trinidad and Tobago to protest the colonial systems and racist hierarchies that had survived independence – a brief moment where Black Power had the potential to topple a government.
We need the Labour Party to stand up against government attacks on our rights to strike, protest and vote — but it can’t defend democracy if it doesn’t respect it within its own movement, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
In the wake of the killing of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, it’s time our political leaders found a backbone and stood against the attacks being waged on young trans people across the country.
Amid the worst squeeze on living standards in decades, Keir Starmer’s Labour has a historic opportunity to transform this country – but yesterday’s speech shows he’s more concerned with staying in the establishment’s good books.
Despite the machismo that has beset the Left, solidarity and organising, from the Miners’ Strike to the Troubles, has often centred on the home.
The biggest-ever pilot of the four-day week proves that cutting working hours with no loss of pay makes us happier, healthier and more productive. Now it’s time for the trade union movement to fight for a shorter working week for all.
The Global South is enduring its worst debt crisis in decades. Unless there is immediate relief, any progress made on tackling extreme poverty risks being wiped out.
Two decades after it first aired, Phoenix Nights’ wry portrayal of a northern working men’s club remains a vital celebration of a vanishing working-class culture too often ignored on screen.
For decades, undercover police have given workers’ names to the employers’ blacklist if they demanded decent pay or safe conditions. Bringing this dark history to light is long overdue.