55. Work Without the Worker: An Interview with Phil Jones
This week, Grace speaks to researcher and author Phil Jones about when ‘automation’ is actually just poorly-paid microwork – and how those workers can organise to resist exploitation.
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Why Sally Rooney Was Right to Stand with Palestinians
Sally Rooney’s decision to stand with Palestinians against decades of occupation and apartheid was always likely to prompt a smear campaign – but meaningful solidarity is never easy.
The History of Capitalism Is Bathed in Saltwater
As a site of exploration, transportation, and acquisition, two new books on the history and politics of the sea show how capitalism extends from its nearest coast to its darkest depths.
Propaganda Can’t Defeat Union Power
Right-wing efforts to blame civil servants for the HGV shortage or the Afghanistan crisis are as absurd as they are desperate – and they won’t stop PCS backing its members.
Opening New Worlds for Workers
A century ago, trade unionists founded the Workers Travel Association, which organised cheap, luxurious holidays in the belief that discovery and adventure should be for the masses – not just the wealthy.
A Materialist History of Sicily
Historically distinct from the Italian mainland and famed for its Mafia, Sicily inhabits a particular place in political culture. Today, the traditionally conservative island is resisting a national shift to the right.
Nancy Fraser: ‘A Feminism Aimed at Liberating All Women Must Be Anti-Capitalist’
In the fight for equality, not all feminisms are the same. Writer and academic Nancy Fraser on the power of popular feminism – and why its counterpart, managerial feminism, is a dead end.
How Greek Delivery Riders Are Fighting the Gig Economy
Last month, a strike by Greek couriers for delivery company Efood saved the contracts of 115 of their colleagues. With the right tactics, their success could be replicated in Britain.
A Green New Deal Is the Only Solution to the Energy Crisis
The energy crisis is a predictable consequence of leaving the response to climate change to the market – if we want a solution that benefits the public, we need state planning and a Green New Deal.
A Letter from Santiago
In central Santiago, the ‘social explosion’ of 2019 has had consequences ranging from a Communist mayor to an overwhelming vote for a new constitution to replace that of General Pinochet – and red scare tactics aren’t working.
New Fronts, Old Wars
The history of the British trans community is usually told through non-fiction, as a way of convincing people it has a right to even exist. Juliet Jacques’ ‘Variations’ tries to move beyond the Right’s culture-war turf.
Economies Without Libidos
Keti Chukhrov’s book ‘Practising the Good’ argues that the Soviet Union really did build socialism, and that westerners have been blinded to this because they can’t imagine a society without ‘desire’. How seriously should this be taken?
A Good, Hard-working Girl
Anime series ‘Aggretsuko’ plays with cutesy imagery as a means of forcing through a remorseless critique of contemporary work.
Slum Diets
The pandemic has led to sudden changes in how we eat, from stockpiling to ordering from (or working for) Deliveroo – but it also showed the survival of a Victorian contempt for the ‘undeserving poor’.
Building the Workers’ Republics
If the Left is to recover from its defeats, it will need a presence in workers’ daily lives – and examples of how a socialist society can provide a better future.
Moulding the New Nye Bevans
Today’s labour movement struggles to create leaders with the politics or influence needed to take us forward – to change that, we need to rejuvenate the workplace and community institutions which shaped yesterday’s fighters.
Against Privilege
The Left’s embrace of a paper-thin representation politics has now been turned against us, as figures from the Centre and even the Right learn how to co-opt activist rhetoric. If we want to build a movement that can challenge the establishment, we’ll need to do more than criticise privilege.
We Still Need the Party
For anyone serious about socialist politics or building community power, the Labour Party remains a vital field of struggle – whether we like it or not.
A Left for a Time of Crisis
The Left’s recent defeats have set the movement for system change back at exactly the moment it is most needed – we must rebuild, and quickly.
Tribune’s Debt to the International Brigades
Earlier this summer, Tribune’s editor spoke at the annual International Brigades Memorial Trust commemoration about this publication’s roots in the struggle against fascism in Spain.