How the Miners’ Strike Remade Rugby League
The miners’ strike saw rugby league players go from picket lines to games while clubs fundraised to feed their communities — changing both the sport and the coalfield communities forever.
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Fianna Coleman
Fianna Coleman is a writer and researcher living in Cardiff.
Football Fans Against Genocide
A recent Guardian article has tried to slander pro-Palestinian Arsenal fans as intimidating racist thugs. But these slanders will not stop people organising against genocide, writes a Jewish pro-Palestinian protester.
The Golden Goodbye Budget
Jeremy Hunt’s final budget is a straightforward giveaway to every millionaire and landlord in our country — a parting glass to the only people they bothered serving in over a decade in power.
It’s Time to Abandon Thatcherism
Thatcher’s assault on the miners led to generational decay in communities across the country. And, 40 years on, amid crumbling infrastructure and dysfunctional public services, the Chancellor is set to continue her devastating legacy.
Why Rosa Was a Revolutionary
Rosa Luxemburg, born 153 years ago today, fought to win the socialist movement to a complete break with capitalism — arguing that only revolutionary transformation could create a world for workers.
The Internationalism of Rosa Luxemburg
Throughout her political life, Rosa Luxemburg remained committed to an internationalist version of socialism — one which fought for the working-class beyond national boundaries and against imperialism.
The Landlords’ Utopia
Far from the cliches about Manchester ‘doing things differently’, the city’s rapid takeover by luxury property developers is driving out working-class communities and suffocating local culture.
Nostalgia for Industry Won’t Revive the Left
In response to a critical review of his book ‘The Next Shift’, historian Gabriel Winant argues that deindustrialisation cannot be reversed — and that it is foolish for the Left to pretend otherwise.
Pakistanis Are Rejecting the Military Elite
Pro-Imran Khan candidates defied intimidation and vote rigging to win Pakistan’s election. Their victory was a rejection of the country’s corrupt military elite — and the US interests they serve.
Property Developer Patriotism
The irony of Keir Starmer’s plan for a ‘patriotic economy’ is that it relies on corporate developers to enrich shareholders, many of which don’t pay their taxes in Britain.
He Was Curious Red
Olof Palme, the radical social democrat who led Sweden in the 1970s, first came to international prominence in an unexpected place — a cameo in the notorious ‘sex film’ I Am Curious Yellow.
The Last Social Democrat
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated on this day in 1986. He was the last social democratic leader to really believe in a world beyond capitalism.
Zarah Sultana: Islamophobia Is Being Used to Demonise Palestine Solidarity
The use of Islamophobia to depict peaceful protestors as violent mobs isn’t just an attack on Muslims — it’s an attack on all of our democratic rights.
Islamophobia: A Tool of Our Political Class
Britain’s political class has stoked a moral panic about British Muslims to dodge accountability for their role in Israel’s genocide — unleashing a wave of Islamophobic hate crime.
From the Pits to Parliament
Ronnie Campbell, who passed away last week, belonged to a dwindling breed of Labour politician. A miner who began work aged 14, his experience of the Northumberland coalfield’s bitter class conflict inspired him to become one of Westminster’s most committed socialists.
A Parliament Against Palestine
Yesterday’s Westminster chaos shows that Keir Starmer’s hostility to democracy applies to parliament itself — but also that despite our politicians’ attempts, protecting Israel from democratic condemnation is becoming unsustainable.
Healthcare Under Siege
Speaking to Tribune, British surgeon Nick Maynard described the realities of Israeli collective punishment that he witnessed in Gaza: patients dying on dirty floors, sheltering from constant bomb attacks and receiving serious surgery without anaesthetic.
Treading Too Lightly
While Blairism said things could only get better, Starmerism says they can only stay the same. But voters aren’t crying out for a politics that ‘treads lightly’ on their lives — they want a politics that improves them.
The Blair Fantasy
Starmer is desperate to become the next Blair — but there’s a yawning chasm between 1997 and 2024.
As I Please: Managing the Mess or Cleaning It Up?
Starmer’s Labour has a historic opportunity to transform the country, but it’s easier to identify what he won’t do than what he will.