The Hospitality Giant Making Its Staff Homeless
After announcing a surge in profits to £560 million, hospitality giant Whitbread told its workers it was making 1500 redundancies that would cause many of them to lose their homes.
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Fianna Coleman
Fianna Coleman is a writer and researcher living in Cardiff.
‘It’s Soul Destroying’: Why Barnet Social Workers Are on Strike
Amid spiralling workloads and a staffing crisis, mental health social workers in Barnet have taken over 60 days of strike action to demand investment in a vital service. Barnet’s Labour Council have responded by using strike-breaking agency workers.
Behind Labour Together
Since running Keir Starmer’s fraudulent leadership campaign, Labour Together has raised staggering sums of money from exploitative businessmen to staff the offices of MPs — shaping party policy in the interests of its mega-rich donors.
In Defence of Fossil Free Books
Howard Jacobson has denounced a campaign against arms manufacturers and fossil fuel companies sponsoring literary festivals, arguing that writers shouldn’t take political action. But his denunciation ignores that complicity is also a political act.
Jeremy Corbyn: The Private Sector Won’t Save the NHS
As Labour and the Tories pledge to continue allowing private interests to carve up our NHS for profit, we must fight as hard as Nye Bevan did against the profiteers wrecking our health service.
Back to Black
The British Library’s new Beyond the Bassline exhibition is an ambitious attempt to showcase five hundred years of black British music — but fails to do this rich history justice.
Capital’s B-Team Are Ready to Take Charge
Keir Starmer claims that Labour is now ‘pro-business and pro-worker’, but the order of these priorities is no coincidence. Yesterday’s manifesto confirmed that the interests of big business and the wealthy will come first under a Labour government.
Keeping Gaza on the Ballot
While the genocide in Gaza has dominated the thoughts of millions of people across Britain, our political and media class are desperate to sideline the issue — we can’t let this happen, writes Andrew Feinstein.
Europe Is Warning Us
The fascist surge across the European Union is directly down to the bankruptcy of centrist politicians — whose failure in addressing soaring inequalities and deep social problems should haunt Starmer’s Labour.
Atomic Bomb Survivors Have a Warning for the World
As the world inches closer to nuclear war, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki speak to Tribune about the urgent need to rid the world of atomic weapons.
Watch Dennis Potter
Thirty years after his death, the work of television dramatist and working-class innovator Dennis Potter is remnant of an era when complex and politically daring art was broadcast to a mass audience.
D-Day and the Anti-Fascist Revolution
As Europe’s right-wing politicians exploit the 80th anniversary of D-Day for their reactionary ends, Tribune remembers its significance for the progressive and anti-fascist revolutions which followed.
‘Gives Us What We’re Owed’: Why Healthcare Assistants Are on Strike
Healthcare assistants are the very backbone of the NHS. Forced to work above their pay grades for poverty wages, they’re going on strike for the pay — and the recognition — they deserve.
Starmer’s Disdain for Democracy Is Dangerous
This week, six members of Labour’s ruling NEC parachuted themselves into safe seats after conducting a purge of left-wing candidates. Their approach is harmful for both party and country, writes NEC member Jess Barnard.
We Don’t Have to Starve Kids
Right now, a third of children in poverty are being denied free school meals — and the teachers feeding them often go hungry themselves. It’s a disgraceful state of affairs that shows the necessity of universal free school meals.
Keir’ll Fix It
In the coming weeks, expect to hear Keir Starmer’s mantra of ‘country first, party second’ on loop. But what the naked, overt corruption evident in Labour’s selection process shows is that in reality, it is faction first, second, and third.
Arthur Russell’s Vanished New York
A new oral history captures the relentless creativity of Arthur Russell and the world of composers and artists he belonged to — many of whom, like him, fell victim to the AIDS epidemic.
An Industrial Correspondent Reflects
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike. Veteran industrial correspondent Alan Jones reflects on his experience reporting on the frontline and the legacy of that seismic dispute today.
Jeremy Corbyn: ‘Suppression of Democracy Is a Dangerous Thing’
At his campaign launch, Jeremy Corbyn explains to Tribune that his run against Keir Starmer’s Labour is more than about social justice — it’s about defending the fundamental principles of democracy and honesty in politics.
Starmer Is Purging Women of Colour
Labour’s disgraceful treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen sends a very clear message to Black and Asian voters — give us your votes and know your place, or face humiliation.