Why We Need a Socialist
It’s not enough for Labour leadership candidates to just say they’ll support radical policies. They need to prove they’ll fight for them – against big business, the political establishment and the billionaire-owned press.
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Billy Anania
Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
Calcio in Crisis
In the 1980s and 1990s, Italy’s Serie A led the football world. But as financial interests asset-strip once-great clubs and racist abuse on the terraces dominates the headlines, Italian football no longer looks like such a “beautiful game.”
Australia’s Fires Are Just the Beginning
Unprecedented environmental disaster, an establishment in denial and working people paying the price – Australia’s wildfires are a taste of the politics of climate change in the decades to come.
The People’s War for Education
During the Second World War, Britain’s soldiers insisted that they were fighting for more than a return to the status quo – and the popular educational programmes they established helped to pave the way for Labour’s victory in 1945.
No War with Iran
The march to war with Iran has begun, with the British government playing Trump’s tune – it’s time for all those opposed to another slaughter in the Middle East to organise a mass anti-war movement.
Jess Phillips Is Not the Answer
Jess Phillips wants to present herself as a truth-teller who is in touch with the concerns of ordinary people – but behind the shtick she is a candidate for whom PR matters more than politics.
No Quarter for Fascists
In the weeks since her election victory, new Labour MP Charlotte Nichols has come under pressure to disown comments about the need to confront the far-right. She tells Tribune about her politics – and why anti-fascism is a cause she will never abandon.
Five Ways You Can Support Tribune in 2020
There’s never been a more urgent time to support socialist alternatives to Britain’s right-wing media. If you believe in what Tribune is trying to do – here’s five ways to get behind us.
The Phenomenon of Bernadette Devlin
50 years ago Irish republican socialist Bernadette Devlin was elected to Westminster. We take a look at her best-selling memoir, ‘The Price of My Soul,’ published the same year.
A Marxist in Keynes’ Court
Maurice Dobb was one of John Maynard Keynes’ protégés – he was also a committed Marxist.
What Is Neoliberalism?
David Harvey on what neoliberalism is, where it came from – and why the concept is still relevant today.
Marx the Journalist
Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist.
Capturing Precarity
The demise of secure work and the rise of ‘precarity’ is a theme of the modern world – and now, it’s finding its way onto the big screen.
Arise, Sir Food Bank
Knighting Iain Duncan Smith – the man responsible for Universal Credit, the bedroom tax and ‘fit for work’ tests – shows just how much contempt the establishment has for ordinary people.
Italy’s ‘Accidental Deaths’
50 years ago, the Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan began Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’. Responses to the bombing and its aftermath would define Italian culture for decades to come.
E. P. Thompson’s Romantic Marxism
Socialist historian E. P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.
Why Naomi Klein Is Right
In her latest book, Naomi Klein continues the cause of her career: arguing that a fundamentally new economic system is the only way to save society and the planet.
Socialism Is for Humanity
The ultimate aim of socialism is as simple as it is beautiful: the freeing of all people from domination, replacing stunted dreams and alienation with human flourishing and boundless creativity.
What a Socialist Society Could Look Like
Socialists can’t wave away questions about what we propose the future should look like. We have to wrestle with them and put forward our vision of a world after capitalism.
The Christmas Truce
During Christmas in 1914, soldiers dropped their weapons and resisted war.