Behind the Sky Pool
Images of Nine Elms’ sky pool provoked controversy last week, but behind the glass lies a story of Britain’s political elite conspiring with super-rich developers – and the communities that suffer as a result.
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Ellie Whittaker
Ellie Woolstencroft is an activist with Labour for a Green New Deal.
Capital’s Latest Trick
Workers are facing an attack on pay and conditions, backed by the threat of the sack. Trade union action is our best hope to bring the assault to an end.
Unbreak Our Hearts
A new history of depression poses the question of where politics ends and illness begins.
Northumbrian Psycho
Eliza Clark’s shlock horror novel Boy Parts is an unreliably-narrated account of violence and ambition, which doubles as a portrait of national dysfunction.
Why Young People Need to Organise
From work to housing and public services, the emerging generation is screwed by today’s economy — and the only answer is to organise collectively to fight for better.
How Labour Lost its Purpose
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing. More worryingly, it doesn’t seem to know why.
The Free Press Fantasy
We often hear that the media’s job is to hold power to account — but in reality, its function is to project the views of the powerful across society.
Remembering Stan Newens
Veteran Labour Left MP and Tribunite Stan Newens passed away earlier this year aged 91. We remember his contributions to socialism.
Some Very British Violence
The scenes at Clapham Common earlier this year prompted shocked realisations about police brutality — but state violence is a defining feature of our isolated, individualised world.
I Know Bono and He Knows Ono and She Knows Eno
A 25th anniversary edition of Brian Eno’s 1995 diaries show just how much has changed since that time, the author included.
Toxic Kitchens: How Workers Are Fighting for Better Amid Reopening
As hospitality reopens across Britain, many workers are facing abysmal conditions amid staff shortages – but now they’re fighting back by joining trade unions.
Failing the Miners Again
Channel 5’s new documentary about the 1984 Miners’ Strike paints Thatcher as a hero and covers up her government’s real intentions – it is just the latest establishment attack on the miners who fought back.
Poverty Is a Policy Choice
14.5 million people in Britain live in poverty, exposing the vast holes in our social safety net – this isn’t an accident, it’s the result of a welfare system which denies people the means to live a dignified life.
‘Women Are the Key to Worker Power’: Roz Foyer on Rebuilding the Union Movement
Roz Foyer, the first woman General Secretary of the Scottish TUC, speaks to Tribune about women’s role in the labour movement, the fight over the future of Scotland – and the alternative to decades of neoliberalism.
On Benefits and Big TVs
From tabloid columnists to Job Centre snoopers, Britain’s obsession with the less well-off owning flat-screen TVs has become a symbol of how inequality is blamed on those at the bottom, rather than at the top.
The Refugee Union Behind Barbed Wire
After being placed in the Penally barracks, refugees organised a union to fight inhumane conditions – their campaign forced the government to commit to closing the camp and inspired others to take up the struggle.
Bill Gates’ Monopoly Medicine
The Gates Foundation claims to have fought for access to medicine during the pandemic, but its defence of intellectual property rights has had the opposite impact – and exposed the limits of philanthrocapitalism.
39. Marxism 101: An Interview with Hadas Thier
Grace talks to writer and activist Hadas Thier, author of ‘A People’s Guide to Capitalism,’ about the key tenets of Marxist thought and what they tell us about the ongoing crisis of the world’s economic system.
Child Hunger Is a Political Choice
There is enough wealth in Britain to feed every child, yet 14% of families with children experience food insecurity – that is a political choice, not an inevitability, and it’s time those in power were held to account.
The Cladding Scandal Isn’t Over
The government has promised repeatedly to end the cladding scandal, but the new Fire Safety Act and the funding on the table go nowhere near far enough – residents need safe homes now.