How Private Profit Destroys Social Care
Leaving social care in private hands has allowed an essential service to line the pockets of profiteers while residents and staff suffer – but there is an alternative: taking the system into public ownership.
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Rae Hart
Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Behind the Post Office IT Scandal
The Post Office scandal was an enormous miscarriage of justice that ruined dozens of lives – and a stark warning about the consequences of involving the private sector in our vital public institutions.
Keir Starmer’s Start the War Coalition
Keir Starmer’s latest attack on Stop the War had nothing to do with peace. Its aim was simple: to convince the hawks who dominate Western foreign policy that Labour no longer stands in the way of their warmongering.
Cost of Living Crisis: Time for Protest
As bills soar and wages flatline, the Tories are betting that we won’t stand up for ourselves – but this weekend will see protests across Britain that can prove them wrong.
We Can’t Solve the Energy Crisis Without Public Ownership
As energy bills soar and the climate crisis deepens, there’s only one long-term solution for the energy sector: bringing it into public ownership.
It’s Time to Renew Student Radicalism
The National Union of Students turns 100 today. The best way to mark the moment is to join the struggle against a government hellbent on failing students across the board.
It’s Time to Enshrine the Right to Food
As the government cuts back on the social safety net amid rising food prices, it’s never been clearer that hunger is a political choice – it’s time to legislate to ensure everyone has the right to food.
We’re Governed by Clowns
As the cost of living crisis bites, this week’s new government appointments make it clear there’s only one item on the prime minister’s agenda: saving his own skin.
67. Feminism Against Fascism: An Interview with Laurie Penny
This week, Grace speaks with author Laurie Penny about the resurgence of gendered violence, building a culture of consent, and how women can organise to resist oppression.
Apsana Begum: The Tories Are Driving Millions into Poverty
By pushing through a real-terms cut in social security payments, the Tories are driving millions of vulnerable people into poverty – more evidence that the cost of living crisis is a political choice, not a force of nature.
This Cost of Living Crisis Was Years in the Making
The cost of living crisis isn’t new. From a record pay freeze to a shredded social safety net, it’s been building for years – and workers can’t take another hit.
Democratise Big Tech
Tech corporations have wormed their way into every aspect of our lives. Regulation isn’t enough: we need democratic control over the digital economy.
Interest Rate Hikes Are Class War
Today’s right-wingers are hoping to solve the inflation crisis like they did in the 1970s: through hiking interest rates and suppressing wages. That’s how economists wage class war.
Cost of Living Crisis: It’s Now or Never for Unions
Workers face a stark decline in living standards amid rising bills and stagnant wages – the trade union movement must organise resistance or risk irrelevance.
France’s Executed ‘Examples’
In the first months of World War I, hundreds of French soldiers were executed by their own side ‘to set an example.’ Only now, more than a century later, has France’s National Assembly voted for their rehabilitation.
Renewing Podemos
Podemos’ new head of organisation, Lilith Verstrynge, speaks to Tribune about the future after Pablo Iglesias, the challenges of government – and whether the party can still be a threat to the Spanish establishment.
Britain’s Islamophobia Comes From the Top
Commentators often present prejudice as a working-class problem, but a new report shows that Islamophobic views are far more common among elites – who have the power to make racism structural.
Busáras: Dublin’s Modernist Icon
Despite many decades of neglect, Busáras remains one of Dublin’s iconic modernist buildings – and its original design as an ambitious civic centre can offer inspiration to those trying to reclaim the city today.
50 Years Since the Battle of Saltley Gate
50 years ago this week, tens of thousands of workers turned out to picket the Nechells gas works in Birmingham, turning the tide of the 1972 strike and securing victory for the miners.
The Borders Bill Will Rip New Holes in the Social Safety Net
An estimated 1.3 million people in Britain are already at risk of destitution as a result of No Recourse to Public Funds – and Priti Patel’s Nationality and Borders Bill would make the situation even worse.