After the Office
Despite the pleas of commercial landlords, working from home is here to stay in many cases – it’s time to use the opportunity to refocus our public space on community, rather than the needs of corporations.
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Rae Hart
Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
New Zealand’s Forgotten Socialist Modernism
In the 1940s, New Zealand’s Labour government employed architects who fled Nazi Germany to design working-class housing in Auckland – and inspire a vision of what a socialist city of the future might look like.
We Still Need to Kill the Bill
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is due to finish its current stage today, returning to Parliament in early July. We can and must kill it – but we should also be asking how our ‘democratic’ system produced it in the first place.
How Covid-19 Minted 5 Million New Millionaires
While huge numbers were pushed towards poverty by Covid, central bank policies created 5 million new millionaires during the pandemic – just the latest sign that our economy is rigged for the rich.
Amazon Is a Symbol of Capitalism’s Wastefulness
A new report has revealed that just one Amazon warehouse in Scotland destroys 130,000 unsold goods per week – a reminder of the waste involved in production for profit rather than public need.
42. What Is Liberalism? An Interview with Alexander Zevin
On this week’s episode, Grace speaks to Alexander Zevin, author of Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist, about the liberal ideology, whether liberalism is in crisis – and where the liberal world order goes next.
The Secretive Formula Used by Bosses to Punish Workers for Being Sick
The Bradford Factor, a secretive formula used by bosses to determine the ‘disruptiveness’ of worker absences, is an increasingly popular means of employer control – and treating illness as an offence.
Dido Harding Should Not Be Anywhere Near the NHS
The NHS needs someone committed to reversing austerity, paying living wages and bringing services back into public ownership – but Dido Harding would be a sign it will get profiteering and xenophobia instead.
Racism Is Not a Culture War Toy – It’s a Fact of Life in Britain
On Windrush Day, the Tory government is once again downplaying the importance of racism in British society – but the evidence is clear: racism remains embedded in the institutions that structure daily life.
Abolish Landlords
A century ago, socialists demanded that housing should serve public need rather than private profit – that aspiration remains as relevant today, but it can only be realised under one condition: abolishing landlords.
Eastern Bloc Rock
40 years ago, Chris Bohn wrote a report on the Czechoslovak music underground for the NME – his article broke the widespread convention that rock could only be made in England or America.
Nature for Everyone
Labour’s new Shadow Minister for Nature, Water, and Flooding brief is an opportunity to push radical policies – from the Green New Deal to land reform to rewilding – that both protect the natural world and make it accessible for all.
The Red, Black and Green of Claude McKay’s London
Jamaican poet Claude McKay’s early years in London shaped his socialism – and convinced him that only the struggle against capitalism could pave the way to liberation for the world’s subject peoples.
Vaccine Billionaires Show Why Medicine Can’t Be Left to the Market
Since the start of the pandemic, nine new billionaires have been minted from vaccines funded in large part by public money – meanwhile, citizens of poorer countries are still waiting for their first dose.
Subsidising the Oil Spill Economy
While claiming to care about climate change, the British government has spent decades intervening to protect oil giant BP’s private profits – as well as giving it hundreds of millions in public subsidies.
The Real Ethel Rosenberg
A new book on Ethel Rosenberg, a Communist put to death at the height of the Cold War, exposes McCarthyism – and tells the real story of the only American woman executed without being convicted of murder.
Why We Took Direct Action Against Apartheid
A Palestine Action activist who occupied the roof of the Elbit Systems weapons factory in Leicester writes for Tribune about their protest – and the importance of exposing Britain’s complicity in Israel’s apartheid.
How the Hydrogen Lobby Is Greenwashing Fossil Fuel
Corporate fossil fuel giants are lobbying the UK government to have the national grid converted to hydrogen – but their plans guarantee further carbon emissions and block any efforts towards net zero.
Football: The Political Game
From the fight against racism to the one against child poverty, football has never been ‘apolitical’ – and taking the knee is just the latest sign that the game plays a role in deciding what kind of society we live in.
Justice for Orgreave
On this day in 1984, a paramilitary police operation attacked striking miners at the Orgreave coking plant. It was a crime against the working class – and 37 years later, those injured have yet to see justice.