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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Almost 700,000 people have been driven into poverty in the UK during Covid-19, and a £20 uplift to Universal Credit isn’t a solution – we need a living income to safeguard against the deepening crisis of inequality.
In the 20th century, leftists used their positions of municipal power in Paris to build some of Europe’s most ambitious social housing projects – housing that was not only beautiful, but affordable and secure.
Stan Newens – veteran parliamentarian, campaigner for international justice and pillar of the Labour Left – passed away this week aged 91. Jeremy Corbyn remembers his lifelong struggle for socialism.
Public sector workers were at the frontline of the Covid crisis, but instead of a reward they’ve been given a pay freeze – just one of many attacks on the living standards of working people in the latest Tory Budget.
For the past year, Labour’s leadership has distanced itself from the party’s popular economic policies – only to see them picked up by a cynical Tory government with no intention of bringing them to reality.
Rosa Luxemburg was born 150 years ago today. Her letters reveal a revolutionary intellectual who was deeply committed to socialism and defiantly humane.
Rishi Sunak’s Budget has been hailed as groundbreaking, but for workers it meant tax increases not pay rises – and little if anything to tackle the insecurity which the pandemic threatens to make normal.
In today’s Budget, Rishi Sunak spoke about a Green Industrial Revolution – but his weak proposals are just another attempt to claim credit for a good idea he’s too afraid to pursue.
A striking British Gas engineer writes for Tribune about the fight against ‘fire and rehire,’ how the company has tried to squeeze its workers on the picket line – and why solidarity was the best form of defence.
The media’s hero-worship of Rishi Sunak ignores his real record during this crisis – from Eat Out to Help Out to opposing a circuit-breaker and liveable sick pay, the Chancellor has been one of Covid’s villains.
In the 1920s and ’30s, Jack Lang served as Premier of New South Wales and introduced sweeping social reforms. His populist, working-class coalition is derided today – but remains a highpoint in Australian politics.
The Labour leadership’s attempt to brand a corporation tax rise as ‘austerity’ is politically inane, economically backwards and a gift to the Tories. But they won’t mind – the only real aim is to signal that Corbynism is over.
The Miners’ Strike – which began on this week in 1984 – was one of the biggest disputes in British history. But it wasn’t just a fight over jobs, it was a battle for and by communities which Thatcher set out to destroy.
The Third Way which conquered the centre-left during the 1990s brought with it a hostility to democratic politics – the public would have to adapt to the demands of market, not the other way around.
To begin a Tribune series on England’s Second City, Birmingham’s own Lynsey Hanley asks why the city’s development was so chaotic – and tended to ignore, diminish and segregate its population.
UK household debt has increased by 66% since May. It’s already a crisis for millions and will be for many more as ‘frozen’ pandemic payments thaw out – but the government refuses to act.
This week the Tories will outline their recovery plan: a more muscular state which intervenes on behalf of the wealthy. Labour needs a response that focuses on working people – but is sorely lacking it.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to extend the stamp duty holiday in Wednesday’s Budget, propping up an economy that relies on ballooning property prices – and locking in the housing crisis for years to come.
Referrals for far-right terror offences have risen markedly among young people during Covid. The phenomenon is fuelled by growing online subcultures – many of which thrive on anti-Muslim vitriol.
In the wake of Covid-19, Goldsmiths management are forcing through job cuts worth £6 million and a vast increase in workloads – but staff are fighting back against the latest neoliberal reforms to higher education.