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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
If Labour is to resist Tory calls for a new round of austerity, it will have to build on the spirit of social solidarity shown by thousands of mutual aid groups – and form an alliance across generations for a better society.
Two new films – ‘Atlantics’ and ‘Workforce’ – explore the huge gulf between the luxury properties of the super-rich, and the conditions of the workers who build them.
In his 1930s novel ‘The Citadel,’ miners’ doctor A.J. Cronin depicted the shambles of the health care system before the creation of the NHS.
Private banks are refusing to lend to sectors of the economy that desperately need it, despite government guarantees. It’s time for more direct intervention – a state-owned bank that works in the public interest.
Denis Goldberg passed away last month after a lifelong fight for social justice which saw him spend two decades in a South African prison. He reminded us of the horrors of apartheid – and the heroism of those who struggled against it, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
Austerity is back on the political agenda for one reason – the establishment is terrified that recent state interventions will raise the demand to solve other social problems the same way, argues Grace Blakeley.
A trade union organiser writes for Tribune about what workers should do if their boss is trying to force them to return to work in unsafe conditions during the coronavirus crisis.
During the First and Second World War, major corporations and the wealthy were forced to contribute to the national effort with vastly higher rates of taxation – coronavirus shouldn’t be any different.
A new bill aims to boost Britain’s production of renewable energy while keeping the money consumers spend ring-fenced in their communities – but it faces stiff opposition from the Big Six companies who dominate the market.
Across the world, powerful new surveillance technologies are being rolled out to combat Covid-19 – but the civil liberties we sacrifice today will be very hard to claim back tomorrow.
Socialist Campaign Group secretary Richard Burgon speaks to Tribune about the fallout from the coronavirus crisis, the leaked Labour report – and the need to prevent a new Cold War in the international arena.
If Labour is to reconnect with working-class communities in its heartland areas, it will need to empower local members to organise on the ground – and the time to start that process is now, argues Ian Lavery.
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing many of Britain’s court hearings online – leading to fears that years of cutbacks could become institutionalised in a new normal: remote justice.
The coronavirus crisis has created huge demand for PPE – but in the world’s biggest glove manufacturer, Top Glove, profits for shareholders are skyrocketing while migrant workers are paid poverty wages in unsafe conditions.
Britain’s right-wing press is stirring up a hate campaign against trade unions, politicians and local government authorities it fears will oppose an early lockdown exit. It has a name for them: the Blob.
The staggering exodus of capital from the Global South is pushing developing economies to the brink of default – making it increasingly likely that the greatest cost for the coronavirus crisis will be paid by the world’s poorest.
The Home Office’s new rules for touring musicians inflict a harsh regime on musical workers, and try to put borders around sound. It won’t work.
In recent years, Labour has looked like a party that understood the depth of Britain’s housing crisis. But its latest policy suggests that period is over – and renters are on their own again.
Labour’s new housing policy would leave renters with an unsustainable mountain of debt on top of already unsustainable rents – it’s not good enough, and the party must support full cancellation.
Greece’s partisans had fought on Britain’s side against the Nazis, liberating much of their country. But for Winston Churchill they were too left-wing – and had to be destroyed.