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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.
The first Top Gun was a highly effective recruitment tool for the war machine. This year’s sequel is less confident in its propaganda – and shows that the US imperial project is aware its popularity is waning.
By pinning inflation on workers and wage demands, the Bank of England is covering up the real cause of rising prices: runaway corporate profits.
Faced with illegal eviction by their unlicensed landlord, a group of flatmates launched a rent strike and sued him for repayment. They won – and here’s how you could, too.
Amid spiralling inflation, firefighters and fire control staff received a measly pay offer of 2%. Their union is encouraging them to reject it – and is ready to fight back.
The private companies that have taken over our local leisure facilities are charging huge fees for users and running them into the ground. In Tottenham, local residents and ACORN have decided to take a stand.
From today, the Tories’ new Health and Care Act will open the door to even more private companies meddling in our healthcare system – it’s just the latest step in a slow-motion privatisation.
Before corporations decided to show up at Pride, trade unions were standing up for LGBT+ rights. On the 50th anniversary of Britain’s first Pride rally, that radical relationship is more important than ever.
This week, Grace speaks to Eddie Dempsey, Senior Assistant General Secretary of the RMT, about the strike action being taken by the rail union up and down Britain.
On this day in 1984, Mike Jackson helped establish Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, a solidarity group to aid the miners in their fight. Four decades later, Mike speaks to Tribune about the power of organising and solidarity.
Government and bosses have tried to blame the travel chaos on lockdowns, but it’s really the result of airlines cutting costs and attacking their workers – the same reason BA staff are taking strike action.
The media says nurses who threaten strike action are undermining the NHS and abandoning patients – but there is no better safeguard of public healthcare than worker organising for better conditions.
Throughout his political shifts, The Clash’s frontman Joe Strummer taught one crucial lesson: that popular music is an unparalleled means for reaching out to the public.
In 1971, with abortion in France still illegal, 343 French women organised to declare they’d had one. It was an act of defiance that broke longstanding taboos – and must be defended today.
Workers at St Monica’s care homes in Bristol and the South West are striking against fire and rehire. If they win, it could galvanise action across the care sector – and after the pandemic, care workers urgently need change.
Trinidadian socialist George Padmore was born on this day in 1903. His Pan-African organising helped to build the struggle against colonialism in the West – and to push independence struggles towards Marxism.
The decimation of legal aid doesn’t just leave lawyers earning below minimum wage, it rigs the justice system in the interests of the wealthy and powerful – that’s why criminal barristers are on strike.
For years, Colombia’s right-wing regime put the 2016 peace deal at risk. But now the country’s first leftist president has committed to full implementation – including the economic justice, political dialogue, and social equality peace demands.
While key workers facing poverty are being told to accept wage cuts, Downing Street is lifting pay caps for bankers. There’s class war alright – but it’s being waged by the elite.
This summer of strikes amid a Tory-created collapse in living standards should be Labour’s moment to make the case for change. Instead, with interventions like David Lammy’s, the party is betraying the workers it’s meant to represent.
This week the RMT have led the way in the struggle for the working class, and electrified the nation. This is a moment trade unionists and the left must grab hold of with both hands.