History from Below Is Where You Find It
Ignore the sepia filter — Call the Midwife, which returns in 2023, has long been one of the most radical programmes on British television.
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Red Library: Modernist Architecture
A hundred years after its emergence, modern architecture is still controversial. Our Library this issue looks at how it came into being and some of its suppressed histories.
A Letter from Dimitrovgrad
The post-war New Town in Bulgaria has just celebrated its 75th birthday. Its combination of Stalinist aesthetics and post-socialist kitsch is all that the country’s elites find shameful, but there is still life in this ‘city of the future’.
In Search of a New North
Alex Niven speaks to Tribune about his new book The North Will Rise Again – an attempt to revive a future for the North from its modernist, radical traditions.
How Workers Won the Weekend
The weekend wasn't handed to us on a platter – it was fought for tooth and nail by the working-class.
‘They Can’t Keep Us Quiet Anymore’: Amazon Workers Strike Back
This week, Amazon workers in Coventry have embarked on a second wave of historic strike action. Picket lines are bigger, workers are louder – and resolve is stronger than ever.
From the Pits to the Pigeon Lofts
Pigeon racing was once understood as a pastime of the elite, but in the twentieth century it established firm roots in Britain’s mining communities – and the bird became known as 'the poor man’s racehorse'.
Football Belongs to the Fans
The looming Qatari takeover of Manchester United underlines how football clubs are now the playthings of oligarchs and repressive regimes. It's time to reclaim the game and fight for fan ownership.
Turkey’s Earthquake Disaster Is a Story of Corporate Greed
The earthquake that struck Turkey last month was a natural disaster, but the staggering death toll is the result of political decisions to allow construction firms to dodge building safety regulations in pursuit of profit.
Trade Unions Can Beat the Far-Right
The failure of politicians to address the cost of living crisis has created the conditions for a resurgence of the far-right – and we need a strong trade union movement to defeat them.
Remembering Trinidad and Tobago’s Black Power Revolution
On this day in 1970, activists took to the streets of Trinidad and Tobago to protest the colonial systems and racist hierarchies that had survived independence – a brief moment where Black Power had the potential to topple a government.
Democracy Is Under Attack
We need the Labour Party to stand up against government attacks on our rights to strike, protest and vote — but it can’t defend democracy if it doesn’t respect it within its own movement, writes Jeremy Corbyn.