Dorset’s Fight Against the Far Right
The far right descended on Portland to ignite racial tensions over the arrival of the Bibby Stockholm — but were defeated by a grassroots campaign of solidarity with asylum seekers.
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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
The far right descended on Portland to ignite racial tensions over the arrival of the Bibby Stockholm — but were defeated by a grassroots campaign of solidarity with asylum seekers.
In 1929, Yorkshire radicals engaged in an unprecedented act of international solidarity when they selected Shaukat Usmani — a jailed Indian revolutionary — to run as a Communist candidate for the mill area of Spen Valley.
The gambling industry serves as a reminder that treating mental health as an individual problem isn’t enough — we need to take on the companies profiting from addiction and misery.
As the Royal Mail looks set to be taken over by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, workers will mobilise to defend the service — and the communities they serve must get ready to stand with them, writes Dave Ward.
The French government response to the Palestine solidarity movement has been defined by criminalisation, censorship and violent attacks on peaceful protestors. But the genocide in Gaza only continues to push people into action.
As Rishi Sunak agitates against student encampments, an organiser at Oxford tells Tribune that their global movement for Palestine only grows more determined.
As Israel intensifies its bombardment of Rafah, Palestinians are eating animal feed just to survive. A doctor at the European hospital, one of several British citizens trapped in Gaza, speaks to Tribune about the horrors he is witnessing.
The uproar resulting from Israel’s participation in Eurovision has ensured tonight’s event will only be remembered as a failed attempt to whitewash its Gaza genocide.
Steve Albini, who has died aged 61, was one of the most uncompromising figures to ever defend art against its corruption by market forces, and for musicians to be considered as workers who deserved the full fruits of their labour.
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram quit Westminster after seeing how it made real change impossible. Speaking to Tribune, they discuss how injustices from Hillsborough to the housing crisis come from a system wired against northerners and workers everywhere.
Andy Beckett’s new book tracks the journey of Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell — under the influence of Tony Benn — from Labour outcasts to their attempt to remake British capitalism.
Labour’s newest MP has an astonishing record: defending convicted sex offenders and attacking everyone from refugees to Marcus Rashford. Natalie Elphicke’s defection doesn’t show her principles have changed, but how Labour has abandoned theirs.
Fifty years ago this week, South Asians at Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory went on strike to demand respect and dignity at work — confronting the racism of their bosses and the unions that failed to support them.
On this day, in 1978, garment worker Altab Ali was murdered in a racist attack in East London. Over four decades on, the struggle against racism continues, writes Apsana Begum MP.
In the years after the Second World War, African independence fighters seized world attention, forcing democrats in Europe to reckon with problems of colonialism and freedom on the continent. Tribune’s historical journey towards emphatic support for African decolonisation leaves a record of enormous relevance for the anti-colonial left today.
From facing some of World War Two’s bloodiest battles to becoming a union organiser and opposing austerity in his retirement, Walter Nixon — who has died aged 101 — spent his whole life fighting injustice.
Today would have been Pete Seeger’s birthday. We remember his contributions to song and socialism.
Unless Sadiq Khan can discover the courage to take on the profiteers driving London’s housing emergency, his victory in today’s mayoral election will mean little to the city’s renters.
The Rwanda scheme is a repulsive election stunt from a government devoid of humanity. We must resist both the policy and the racist rhetoric that underpins it, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
Dividend payments to rich shareholders have grown 14 times faster than workers’ wages. This explosion in inequality is not an accident — it’s the result of an economy designed to reward corporate greed.