Zarah Sultana: ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’
With the country in crisis, the Tories have adopted the extremist language of the far-right to scapegoat asylum seekers for their own failures — and we can’t let them succeed.
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Zarah Sultana
Zarah Sultana is the Labour party member of parliament for Coventry South.
Why We Launched Enough Is Enough
This cost-of-living crisis isn’t inevitable.
Good Riddance Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson has been a prime minister who exemplified Britain’s self-serving ruling class – but unless we organise for a real alternative, his replacement won’t be any better.
‘I Still Feel Watched’: Zarah Sultana on Her Life in Politics
Tribune’s editor sat down with the Coventry MP to discuss her path into politics, her experience in Parliament, and the question of where the Left goes next.
Zarah Sultana: My Fight for Re-election
My fight for re-election will be tough. The establishment doesn’t want socialists in parliament – and it’s only through a people-powered campaign that I can win.
5 Ways the Tories Could Tackle the Cost of Living TODAY
Today, billionaire Chancellor Rishi Sunak will tell us he ‘understands’ the plight of millions facing a cost of living crisis. If he truly wanted, he could avert the coming wave of poverty and hardship – here’s how.
The Pensions Amendment Is an Attack on International Solidarity
The Pensions Bill amendment passed yesterday would have outlawed councils from boycotting apartheid South Africa in the 1980s – and is an attack on our democratic rights to express international solidarity.
Socialism Is Freedom
Freedom under capitalism is the ‘freedom’ to exploit or be exploited. Real freedom is the absence of all barriers that prevent people from living life to the fullest — the socialist movement fights for this kind of world.
Zarah Sultana: Electoral College Is a ‘Shameful, Anti-Democratic Power Grab’
The proposal to abolish ‘One Member, One Vote’ in Labour leadership elections is an attack on democracy by a Westminster elite – and betrays Keir Starmer’s commitment to empower party members.
The Free Press Fantasy
We often hear that the media’s job is to hold power to account — but in reality, its function is to project the views of the powerful across society.
We Can’t Defeat Climate Change Without Defeating Capitalism
Corporate interests want to divert the climate movement into individual solutions, but paper straws and low-energy light bulbs won’t save the planet – we need a movement to end the system that’s destroying it.
The War in Yemen Is a Very British Scandal
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the war in Yemen, the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster which has left 250,000 dead and millions facing starvation – all of it made possible by British government support.
Zarah Sultana: ‘The Police Crackdown Bill Is Dystopian’
The Police Crackdown bill gets its second reading in parliament today. It is the greatest threat to the right to protest in years – and is only one part of a Tory war against our democratic rights.
How Money Shapes Our Politics
Capitalism’s greatest myth is that it is a democratic system. While the rich dominate our parliament, fund our parties and own our newspapers, real democracy is impossible.
Why Anti-Racism Must be Anti-Capitalist
There have been many attempts to put a ‘humane’ face on capitalism, but it is a system built on oppression. Racism isn’t a glitch, it’s a feature – both of capitalism’s history and its present.
We Can’t Let the Tories Scapegoat Muslims for Their Coronavirus Failures
Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, but rather than face its failures the Tory government is turning to an old trick – scapegoating Muslims and the marginalised.
The Two Worlds of the Coronavirus Pandemic
This crisis has exposed Thatcher’s myth that there is ‘no such thing as society.’ In reality, the rich simply live as if they were responsible to no one – while others make their lives possible, argues Zarah Sultana.
International Women’s Day Is Not for Corporations
Corporate giants like Shell might try to co-opt International Women’s Day – but they’ll never be able to erase the radical history of generations of socialist women who fought to establish this day across the world.
What Corbyn’s Leadership Meant to Me
For thousands who joined the party and millions of supporters beyond, Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership meant hope for a better future. As he steps down, it’s our job to keep that hope alive.
Moderation Won’t Cut It
Establishment commentators are calling for Labour to abandon transformational politics at the moment we can least afford it, argues Zarah Sultana.