Imagining the Progressive Restaurant

In a country where so many people live increasingly lonely, bland, and digitised lives, food institutions can — and should — be bodies that place communal enjoyment before the whims of consumerism.

Splitting Games

Ash Sarkar’s debut book Minority Rule ventures into the badlands of the contemporary culture wars to show how identity politics has come to obscure class struggle — and helped to dismantle left unity.

Alex Niven Announced as Tribune’s New Editor

Democratised Finance Is the Future

Financial institutions wield huge control over our day-to-day lives. We need to democratise that power.

Reds Deserve Better

The proposed demolition of Old Trafford to build a corporate theme park that could have been designed by Homer Simpson is another sad example of billionaires kidnapping football — and destroying something special about Manchester — in the name of profit.

Labour Must Pull in the Workers’ Direction

The Employment Rights Bill could see the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in a generation and improve millions of workers’ lives — the government can’t afford to bow to corporate lobbyists seeking to dilute it.

End the Privatised Water Scam

Thames Water, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, is the poster child for failed privatisation. Labour’s refusal to even consider public ownership for this vital utility puts ideology above reason.

Making More Mick Lynches

Mick Lynch’s time in the RMT leadership is a lesson for a Left often scared of itself: strength comes from building confidence in workers, confronting lying politicians, and showing no respect for the farce that is the ‘media game’.

‘I’m Still Here’ Is a Story for Now

The success of ‘I’m Still Here’ at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.

Dave Proudlove: ‘Three Figures to Watch Fulham? Come on Lads’

A new book about grassroots football and its industrial past sheds light on neglected spaces of working-class experience. Tribune sat down with its author Dave Proudlove to talk gentrification, escapism, and the radical potential of the non-league game.

Neukölln Dreaming

Rejecting calls to tack right on immigration, Die Linke made impressive gains in last month’s German elections by cultivating a new form of radical politics that pushes working-class communities – and an ethic of ‘revolutionary kindness’ – to the fore.

Guns Before Butter

Running a government where starving children and freezing pensioners is the price to pay for funding endless wars, Keir Starmer’s only legacy will be a more dangerous and unequal world.

From Melancholia to Power

With influences as wide as Freud and The Jam, Cynthia Cruz’s ideas analyse neoliberalism’s disappearing of the working class in everyday politics and cultural life — and how, in recognising that, class politics can be rebuilt.

Feeding the Flames

More than simply keeping picket lines going, providing food to workers in dispute is a form of collectivism that has shaped the trade union movement.

Cooking on the Breadline

Low pay and poor conditions in the British food industry leave thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — but some are pushing back and organising for better.

Misremembering the 80s

A new Tate Britain exhibition purports to display the photography of the 1980s. In its rooms, that decade has never felt longer.

Remembering Bik

The Irish revolutionary and singer Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, who has died aged 74, was trusted by Bobby Sands, feared by Margaret Thatcher, and admired by thousands who became politicised through his songs and powerful performances.

‘The Empire was hidden in Belgium. It was called the Empire of Silence.’

Johan Grimonprez speaks about his innovative, Oscar-nominated documentary, which reveals disturbing truths about the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

The German Left’s Rebirth

As well as a best-ever result for the far-right AfD, yesterday’s German election saw a surge of support for the left-wing Die Linke after years in crisis. In the run-up, longtime leader Gregor Gysi shared his thoughts on how to carry that surge forward.

The Revolt of the Housewives

In 1795, English women facing starvation organised to seize food supplies and distribute them for an honest price — making the case for a system that placed community need above individual profit.