The Forced Labour Bill
The Tories’ latest attack on trade unions would conscript transport workers to work against their will – a historic blow to the right to strike that must be fiercely resisted.
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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
The Further Education Fightback
After a 35% pay cut in the last ten years, college lecturers now face losing another 10%. They speak to Tribune about why that can’t be allowed to happen.
‘Self-Defence is No Offence!’: Remembering the Bradford 12
40 years ago, the Bradford 12 were arrested by a racist police force for trying to defend their community from fascists. Speaking to Tribune, they recall the solidarity that helped secure their freedom, and the ongoing urgency of resistance.
Interest Rate Hikes Against the Environment
If triggering a recession wasn’t enough, interest rate hikes funnel money into fossil fuel projects over green ones – meaning they’re not just harming our present, but polluting our future.
Don’t Leave Democracy to the Markets
It would take a heart of stone to watch the speedy downfall of Liz Truss without laughing. But it’s no good letting the market lead the opposition – just imagine their response to a budget that made the changes Britain really needs.
The Right to Food Can’t Wait Any Longer
Food inflation has hit 14.6% – its highest level in four decades. As millions more turn to foodbanks to survive, the right to food is fast becoming the frontline of the cost of living crisis.
Thérèse Coffey’s ‘Plan’ Is Pitting Workers Against Patients
The health secretary’s ‘Plan for Patients’ includes nothing that grapples with the real scale of the NHS’s crisis – but does pave the way for even more money to be funnelled into private pockets.
Austerity Is a Political Choice – And We Reject It
Another round of austerity could push millions into poverty and public services to the brink – it isn’t ‘sensible,’ it’s an act of vandalism.
The Government’s War on Disabled People Never Ends
In 2016, the UN said austerity had led to ‘systemic violations’ of disabled people’s rights. Now spiralling costs are pushing more disabled people into poverty – and with plans for new spending cuts, the Tories are doubling down.
Civil Servants Could Be the Next to Strike
Civil servants haven’t had a proper pay rise for 11 years, and more than a third are skipping meals to save money. The national strike ballot is a chance for 150,000 to make clear they’re not taking it anymore.
The Dark Heart of Green Toryism
When our ruling class preaches virtue, it usually practices vice. The fascistic, eugenicist roots of the Conservative Party’s leading environmentalists are no exception.
When Africa’s Future Came to Manchester
On this day in 1945, delegates arrived at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall to begin the Fifth Pan-African Congress. Their aim: laying the foundations of a new Africa, free at last from colonial rule.
Rearranging The Deckchairs
Unless Liz Truss commits to wage rises, fair taxes and properly funded public services, sacking Kwasi Kwarteng will make no difference – Britain will still be falling off the cliff edge.
Peep Show Is Now a Utopian Fantasy
Channel 4’s Peep Show is now almost two decades old. In Jeremy, it captured the archetype of the slacker – living a life that was dysfunctional, but in today’s terms, also unimaginably comfortable.
How the Picture Post Pioneered the Art of the Everyday
In the 1930s, Hungarian editor Stefan Lorant founded the ‘Picture Post’, which brought the radical ideas of post-revolutionary Central Europe to British newsagents – shown in its ‘inartistic’ stories of ordinary people.
London Can’t Afford to Lose Buses
Cutting bus services means punishing London’s most vulnerable for the pandemic. We need to fight to save the routes at risk – and to make the government fund the transport network properly.
Platforms for the People
As years of a growth-at-all-costs model start to bite, the platform economy is looking increasingly unsteady. Now’s the time to take back the tech from the venture capitalists.
The Children of the Windrush Generation who Revolutionised Rugby League
In the 1980s, as politicians stoked racism and rugby league lamented the passing of its golden age, three black players came to the fore who would change their game – and their country – for good.
Liz Truss Is Trapping Britain in Permanent Economic Decline
By pursuing tax cuts for the rich while the rest of the economy crumbles, Liz Truss has tanked the pound – and locked Britain into a spiral of national decline.
Demolishing Brutalist Bradford
Bradford Council’s plans to raze the brutalist Kirkgate Centre represent this future City of Culture’s triumph over its optimistic, modernist past.