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Raven Hart is co-founder of the Bristol Cooperative Alliance, an organisation that aims to promote a decentralised economy that empowers local communities and facilitates democratic self-determination.
Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales was once the slate capital of the world. Now it’s pioneering grassroots alternatives to the devastation of post-industrial capitalism – and pointing a way toward a socialist society.
Bruce Springsteen and his politics are flawed, to be sure – but nearly fifty years after his first album, there are few other voices who can so unite the left.
The Republicans are planning attacks from social security to healthcare to the trade union movement, and they’re expected to come out of today’s elections victorious. For the Left, that means it’s time to start planning resistance.
While millions face winter in poverty, Shell posted £8.2 billion in profits this quarter – more than double the figure from this time last year. It’s time for an overhaul of the system that got us here.
The American TV series ‘Ramy’ moves beyond the pieties of representation to follow a group of ‘Bad Muslims’ with sophistication and brutal humour.
Like people in Britain, New Yorkers are getting forced into cold homes and climate crisis by private energy companies – so they’re fighting for a system of publicly owned renewable energy instead.
On this day in 1910, riots broke out between striking South Wales miners and police; days later, Winston Churchill sent in troops to end the strike. For the miners, it was a moment of radicalisation.
The Tories are doubling down on their demonisation of asylum seekers in a scramble to distract from their own failures – even after last weekend’s petrol bombing in Dover made the dangers clearer than ever.
After months of individual complaints being ignored, workers at Scottish hotel Cameron House organised together to get £138,000 in backdated tips back in their pockets – and through collective action, they won.
In 1889, during one of capitalism’s prolonged crises, casualised dock workers in London came together in a 130,000-strong strike for better pay – and helped ring in a new wave of socialism and industrial militancy across the country.
Stephen Marche’s The Next Civil War is a thought experiment imagining the ‘two Americas’ decisively parting ways.
To confront ecological catastrophe, next week’s COP would have to confront the profit-at-all-costs world system that locks us into disaster. Anything less is circus.
Narratives about preferential housing for migrants and ethnic minorities have fuelled racism in Britain for more than a century – while letting the landlords and politicians really responsible for the housing crisis off scot free.
The rise of AI image makers like DALL-E threaten more than endless viral images. We have to start imagining how AI technologies can remain in service to culture workers, rather than vice versa.
Austerity put saving money, not protecting people, at the top of the state’s agenda. Combine that with deregulation and corporate greed, and Grenfell is one horrific example of the consequences.
In the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike, Thatcher weaponised hunger to force striking workers back to work. What she didn’t expect was workers in pit communities and beyond mobilising to organise an alternative welfare state.
Lula’s historic victory, unthinkable just two years ago, couldn’t have happened without millions of people fighting for it. As Bolsonaro supporters refuse to accept the results, the mobilisation of those masses will be key to securing democracy.
Fenner Brockway – lifelong socialist and anti-war activist who co-founded War on Want, the CND, and the Movement for Colonial Freedom – was born on this day in 1888. Jeremy Corbyn speaks to Tribune about the debt we owe his memory.
Battersea Power Station’s transformation from a London landmark into a commercial centre and luxury flats tells a story of a city sacrificing its history on the altar of private development.
David Cameron’s Tories justified austerity by saying we were ‘all in it together’. Now millions are going hungry and public services are on their knees while the rich enjoy the spoils – we can’t afford to let them lie again.