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Alex Niven is the editor of Tribune.
Reform’s devastating electoral success in places like County Durham this week shows that British politics is approaching a tipping point – will Labour respond with watered-down jingoism, or rediscover its soul?
The Left tends to celebrate the crowd only in limited and conditional ways. A new book by Dan Hancox aims to reclaim the mass gathering for the 2020s.
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.
A new book by Toby Manning argues that the best music of the past 60 years has often reflected, foreshadowed or even embraced the turmoil and radicalism of its time.
Is motherhood political? In a new book, Helen Charman examines how politics in Britain and the north of Ireland have been defined by motherhood as a state of radical possibility.
From the Red Riding Quartet to GB84, David Peace exposed the seedy underbelly of Britain’s Establishment with rare candour. In this interview with Alex Niven, the seminal novelist discusses his youth in a mining town, the complexities of post-war Britain, and the need for socialists and artists to move beyond defeatism.
The hollow and apolitical style that looks set to define a Keir Starmer government can’t survive a world riddled with profound crises. When this unambitious offer crumbles, the Left has to be prepared to answer seriously.
A new film celebrates photographer Tish Murtha, who intimately captured life on the margins during Thatcherism’s rise – and demonstrated art’s potential to undermine the powerful.
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.
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.
London’s 2012 Olympics opened a decade ago today. In the time since, the event has become a symbol for centrists of an ideal, progressive Britain that never really existed.
In the dying days of industry, northern England supplied the crucial animating backdrop to classic sci-fi in its formative stages.
Welsh Labour’s plans for a National Music Service are a reminder that socialist policies aren’t just about cold, hard economics – they’re about allowing the creativity and personal joy so often stifled by the market to flourish.
Sam Fender’s ‘Seventeen Going Under’ gives passionate expression to the experience of young, left-wing northern England – combining rousing rock with lyrics decrying the dark impact of austerity.
By embracing the Blair-era legacy of Ofsted ratings, Keir Starmer is signalling that Labour is no longer committed to progressive education reform – and abandoning young people to a broken system.
Despite pursuing a number of redistributive policies, Blair’s Labour government left the fundamental architecture of Thatcher’s economy in place – and failed to break the cycle of deepening inequality.
Mark Fisher passed away five years ago today. In bleak times, his writing showed a new generation that another world was possible – and paved the way for socialist revival.
Mark Fisher passed away four years ago today. In bleak times, his writing showed a new generation that another world was possible — and paved the way for socialist revival.
Ten years after the first Coalition austerity budget, we recall the rise of Nick Clegg – British centrism’s last great hope – who appealed to the radical instincts of his supporters, only to march them to the right.
The United Kingdom is unlikely to survive in its current form. Now is the time for socialists to imagine what comes next.