Criminalising Black Lives Matter
Priti Patel’s plans to fast-track cases against Black Lives Matter protestors will deepen racial injustices in Britain’s courts – but Keir Starmer’s record during the London riots implicates Labour just as much.
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Ellie Whittaker
Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
Grenfell: Still Raging After Three Years
Three years after the fire at Grenfell, Kensington and Chelsea Council continues to fail its victims – with demands for housing, services and support met instead with a cynical public relations exercise.
Erasing Empire
Contrary to Boris Johnson’s claims that it does not edit or censor the past, the British state has sought at every turn to conceal the truth about the empire – including destroying vast records of its crimes.
Manchester’s Black Champion
A colour bar introduced by Winston Churchill prevented Manchester boxer Len Johnson from becoming a champion – now a new campaign wants to recognise him with a statue in the city.
Marx Was Right About Slavery
Tory MPs are demanding that we desecrate Marx’s grave – but Marx was a consistent campaigner against slavery, and supported the efforts of British workers who organised to fight it.
Bridging Britain’s Digital Divide
While school closures are necessary during a pandemic, they leave poorer students behind – it’s time for the government to bridge the digital divide and ensure that every child can participate in remote learning.
Who’s Afraid of Ilhan Omar?
Ilhan Omar is a target for America’s right-wing media – but the success of her new book confirms her status as a leading light of the emerging US Left, and one who will be around for some time.
Íñigo Errejón: “The Movement is Like Ocean Waves, Each Arrives a Little Closer”
Más País leader and Spanish MP Íñigo Errejón talks to Tribune about left-wing politics after Bernie and Corbyn, the Covid-19 crisis – and how the rich use politics to divorce themselves from social responsibility.
The Coming Crash
Stock markets across the world are rallying as lockdowns lift and central banks pump money into the economy – but it’s likely to be a calm before the storm.
Kneeling Is Not Enough
Two months on from the leaked Labour report and its revelations of racism, no-one has been suspended – even pending investigation. For BAME Labour members, kneeling is not enough.
A Programme for Recovery
Now is the time for the labour movement to lay down the gauntlet to the political class with a clear set of economic and social demands that can respond to this historic crisis, argues Howard Beckett.
Up Went Nelson
Post-independence Ireland saw a wave of monuments to the British empire being removed, but none more dramatically than Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin – blown up on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
Capitalism, Slavery and the New World
It is impossible to understand the history of capitalism – or the development of its hegemon, the United States – without acknowledging the role of slavery in its construction.
What Starmer Should Have Said About the Colston Statue
This morning, Keir Starmer argued that Colston’s statue was removed in the wrong way. But tearing it down and dumping it in the harbour which facilitated his slave fortune was not just right – it was poetic justice.
The Rise of David Icke
David Icke was once a laughing stock. The growing popularity of his reactionary conspiracism is a symptom of a society in decay.
Tony Benn on the Legacy of Slavery
In 2007, Tony Benn – who was an MP for Bristol for 20 years – gave a speech discussing the legacy of slavery, the fight which brought it down and the ideal of common humanity which powers progressive struggles.
Smart Cities, Surveilled Citizens
‘Smart cities’ technologies have grown in popularity during the coronavirus crisis, and are now being touted as tools of economic recovery – but they will also deepen the power of surveillance over our lives.
Lessons from the Illiberal Democracies
Today’s Tories are closer to the right-wing populist governments of Eastern Europe than the neoliberal mainstream. To defeat them, Labour has to avoid the mistakes that empowered those projects.
The Era of State-Monopoly Capitalism
The Covid-19 crash will concentrate economic power in the hands of the state and major multinational corporations — the task for the Left is to fight for democratic alternatives.
There’s a Problem with Zuleikha
A new primetime TV drama about Russia’s Tatars under Stalinism, ‘Zuleikha Opens her Eyes,’ has divided audiences and the Tatar community itself.