How Sunak Lost His Sparkle
Rishi Sunak saw out the pandemic hailed by the media as a hero, but he was never a real friend to normal people – and his refusal to fight the cost of living crisis makes that fact unavoidable.
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Rae Hart
Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
The University Casualisation Crisis Must End
Growing numbers of university staff face gig economy conditions with low pay and no security. Now they’re striking – not just for their own conditions, but for the future of higher education.
Lift the Public Bus Ban
Since 2017, local councils have been banned from setting up their own municipal bus companies. The government promised to review the ban a year ago – now, with our for-profit public transport in deepening crisis, it’s time to deliver.
The Class War Can’t be Won in the Courts
Left-wing lawfare is a growing phenomenon – but legal challenges simply can’t replace the power of organised labour.
74. Imperialism and the Energy Crisis w/ David Wearing
This week, Grace chats to David Wearing, author of ‘AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain’, about Boris Johnson’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE – and how the energy crisis will transform world politics.
Justice for Scottish Miners
Hundreds of Scottish miners were wrongly convicted during the 1984-5 strike, and their lives and livelihoods destroyed as a result. Scotland now has a chance to right that wrong with both pardons and compensation – and must take it.
In the Shadow of Jeremy Kyle
For years The Jeremy Kyle Show shamed and demonised poor people, recasting social problems as individual failings. The programme might now be over, but the wildly unequal world it helped justify endures.
Vaccines for Public Health, Not Profit
The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre was set up with £200 million in public money just four years ago. Now the Tories are now selling it off – and yet again risking public health to make a quick buck.
As I Please: Partygate Is the Beginning of the End for Boris Johnson
A quiet revolution is under way, and the most organised cohort of Tory MPs is the one plotting the PM’s downfall.
Red Library: Science Fiction
There has always been an affinity between socialism and science fiction, a genre that makes clear it is still possible to imagine new societies — however much our miserable politics might claim otherwise.
Ways of Ending
Mike Leigh’s apocalyptic ‘Naked’ was a terrifying picture of early 1990s Britain, alone in the director’s oeuvre in its brutal pessimism. How does it stand up in the equally bleak early 2020s?
No One Way Works
The American leftist poet Diane di Prima wrote her ‘Revolutionary Letters’ for over forty years, filling them with both advice and anger.
Lost and Familiar Worlds of Socialism
A new history of early socialists in Bulgaria documents how many problems of the movement reach across the generations.
Tribune vs. the Nuclear Bomb
From the moment the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Tribune was at the forefront of the campaign against nuclear weapons. It was a cause that shaped the magazine for decades.
‘I Still Feel Watched’: Zarah Sultana on Her Life in Politics
Tribune’s editor sat down with the Coventry MP to discuss her path into politics, her experience in Parliament, and the question of where the Left goes next.
Protest Under Siege
Under the cover of the culture war, the government is introducing a wave of authoritarian legislation designed to erode our democratic rights. But the only way to defend the right to protest is to exercise it.
Inflation Is Political
Rising inflation is driving the cost of living crisis, but it isn’t an act of God. It’s the result of policy decisions that favour the rich — and socialists need to have an alternative.
Cashing in on the Housing Crisis
The Help-to-Buy scheme is marketed as an effort to solve the housing crisis, but it’s actually about the Tories helping those who benefit from the crisis get even richer.
Partygate Shows Why the Public Hates the Political Elite
With Partygate destroying what remains of the public’s trust in politics, it is tempting to dismiss the desire for honest politicians as naïve – but truthfulness should be a cornerstone of any socialist project, argues Rebecca Long-Bailey.
Haiti’s Curse Is Neocolonialism
Over two centuries since enslaved Haitians broke their chains and declared a republic, their descendants remain subjugated by Western imperialism and its homegrown collaborators.