Tribune sits down with the Fire Brigades Union's Matt Wrack to discuss the Tory assault on public services, the prospect of a firefighters' strike – and how we rebuild a fighting trade union movement for the 21st century.
Dementia is the leading cause of death in the UK, and our care sector is in crisis after years of austerity and privatisation. Some say we can't afford to have a National Care Service, but the truth is that we can't afford not to.
Both the media and the Labour frontbench are outraged about Gavin Williamson's alleged abusive behaviour – but both seem happy to indulge bullying when it's the right people being bullied.
Matt Hancock thinks his stint surviving in the jungle is a 'good metaphor' for politics. He's right – but only because his risk of meeting serious harm in I'm a Celebrity is about as high as his risk of facing serious consequences for his Covid crimes.
Though Britain’s Communist movement never took power, its leading lights – like E. P. Thompson and Eric Hobsbawm – sparked a revolution in understanding the role of working people in making history.
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.