Bleeding Junior Doctors Dry
After years of falling pay and impossible workloads, junior doctors are organising to fight back.
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Billy Anania
Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
‘Amazon Doesn’t Own Us’: Behind the Historic UK Strikes
This week, Amazon workers in Britain are taking part in their biggest strike yet against the corporate giant. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that workers can fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.
Schools Just Want to Have Funds
The teachers’ strike is about more than just fair pay — it’s a fight for the future of education.
The Only Effective Strike Is a Disruptive Strike
Under capitalism, property rights will always come before workers’ rights to decent pay and conditions – the only way to fight back is through strike action.
Selling Austerity
Austerity is justified as necessary for the sound management of the economy, but elites have always understood its true purpose: weakening the political strength of the working class.
The Manchester Student Rent Strike Is Solidarity in Action
Rent strikers at the University of Manchester aren’t just protesting the cost of living crisis – they are building a movement with trade unions to fight the marketisation of higher education.
Racism and Resistance: How South Asians Fought Back
Mukhtar Dar, a former member of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement and the Pakistani Workers Association, speaks to Tribune about the rich tradition of political activism in the British South Asian community – and why it’s time to reignite that fighting spirit.
Mokhtar Mokhtefi’s Literature of Refusal
The recently published memoir of Algerian revolutionary Mokhtar Mokhtefi, I Was A French Muslim, powerfully portrays a life spent in the struggle against French imperialism and for the unlocking of all human potential.
Man and Showman
Dubliner Brendan Behan was born one hundred years ago. Despite his demons, he became one of the twentieth century’s great working-class writers.
The North Will Rise Again
The history of the North of England — from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the neglect of recent decades — has produced a culture at once pragmatic and hopelessly ambitious.
No, We Don’t Need Austerity!
There’s nothing ‘pragmatic’ about repeating a social catastrophe.
Sputnik and Shed
Two photobooks documenting what could be called ‘socialist playgrounds’ reveal the differences between adults designing for children, and children designing for themselves.
Come On You Reds
A new book on the beginnings of football in the Soviet Union reveals how the Bolsheviks first regarded it as an opium of the people – and then tried to build a game of their own.
Property Will Eat Itself
The transformation of industrial spaces into clubs and then into flats in cities like Manchester has created a strange ouroboros of self-consuming development.
Make Do and Mend
However you read the statistics, the climate crisis has to mean less building. What does a future of living in old buildings hold for the future of architecture?
One Man’s Trash
In the dark days of John Major’s Britain, Channel 4’s Eurotrash took aim at Britain’s relationship with ‘the continent’ and created a low-art surrealist classic in the process.
We Have Never Been Postmodern
Stuart Jeffries’ new book charts a lively history of postmodernism from the 1970s to the millennium through a discussion of pivotal artworks, pop cultural figures, cultural theorists and political events. But are we really still living in ‘postmodern’ times?
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.
Defining Modernist Architecture
The roots of modernist architecture are explicitly reformist and socialist – yet it continues to defy contemporary characterisation as either an elite conspiracy or a monument to unfulfilled utopia, writes Owen Hatherley.
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’.