Tentative attempts by Tories to resurrect the 'scrounger' myth to push an even harsher welfare system prove how comfortably they slip back into austerity logic – and how completely at odds they are with the reality of today’s economy.
Britain's anti-union laws are already the harshest in the developed world. Liz Truss's plan to make them even more draconian should be recognised for what it is – an attack on the basic democratic rights of working people.
Tribune sits down with the RMT's Mick Lynch to discuss the national rail strike, his viral television appearances – and how workers can come together to topple Britain's super-rich elite.
London's 2012 Olympics opened a decade ago today. In the time since, the event has become a symbol for centrists of an ideal, progressive Britain that never really existed.
Since 2019 the public spending gap between the North and London has doubled – a reminder that government talk of 'levelling up' has so far been little more than hot air.
Despite spiralling living costs, employees at the Budweiser factory in Samlesbury were offered an insulting 3% pay rise – in response, these ‘beer heroes’ went on strike for the first time ever.
The Manchester Modernist Society has spent over a decade popularising and democratising the neglected spaces of post-war modernism – but now they need our support.
Ana Kinsella's 'Look Here' is a book about fashion, but also one about the personal politics of moving around the city before and during the pandemic.
This summer 50 years ago, British building workers, long considered impossible to organise nationally, went out on strike and won the largest single builders’ pay rise ever – but they were met with state persecution and blacklisting.
The first BT and Openreach strike since 1987 pits engineers and call centre workers, many of whom are forced to rely on foodbanks, against a massively profitable corporation – and executives who earn millions of pounds a year.
From the cost of living crisis to climate chaos, our era is defined by enormous social challenges – and the private sector has shown it can't solve them. It's time for massive state intervention in the economy.
Friedrich Engels' 1872 pamphlet 'The Housing Question' highlighted the mutual reliance between the housing crisis and the capitalist system in Victorian England. In the years since, that relationship has only deepened.