The Stormont Stalemate Strike
Today across the north of Ireland, 170,000 workers are standing together on strike against real-terms pay cuts and the neglect caused by dysfunction at the highest levels of the Assembly.
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Fianna Coleman
Fianna Coleman is a writer and researcher living in Cardiff.
The Government Has Declared War on Workers — It’s Time to Fight Back.
Forty years ago, the Thatcher government attacked trade union rights. Union members at GCHQ Cheltenham were told to quit their union or be sacked. The trade union movement stood together to defeat this assault. As the Tories introduce new draconian anti-strike laws, it’s time to do it again.
Bombing Yemen Is Not Self-Defence
Regardless of what Western politicians claim, the bombing of Yemen is a defence of Israel’s attempted genocide in Gaza — and risks triggering a regional war.
Labour Has No Hiding Place on Palestine
The Labour Party’s support for Israel’s massacre in Gaza shows that Keir Starmer has learnt nothing from Tony Blair’s morally and politically disastrous Iraq War.
South Africa’s Case Was a Display of International Solidarity — We Should Support It
At the International Court of Justice, South Africa spoke on behalf of the billions of people who oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza — and put Western governments to shame for their deplorable complicity.
Policing the Silence
From Black Lives Matter to the death of the Queen, the fierce arguments generated by minute silences in football reflect how the game has become a battleground where fans contest their political and cultural identities.
The Slum Housing Scandal
True justice for Awaab Ishak, the baby who died as a result of prolonged exposure to mould, doesn’t just mean making slum landlords pay for their crimes — but actually confronting the housing crisis that creates them.
Five Fighting Ideas For a Socialist Wales
The Welsh Labour leadership election is an opportunity to examine the economic and social stress Wales finds itself in today — and to highlight concrete, socialist solutions for the country, writes Beth Winter MP.
Modernism for the Many
In the 1960s, Kate Macintosh designed modernist public housing for the elderly. Her buildings are monuments to what architecture can achieve when liberated from the constraints of the property market.
Bill Clinton Versus Organised Labour
Bill Clinton’s neoliberal agenda deliberately gutted social security and facilitated the offshoring of manufacturing — a calculated betrayal of organised labour from which America’s working class has never recovered.
Britain Feared the Paris Commune
Some of the cultural responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 — demonising revolutionaries and justifying soldiers’ atrocities — demonstrate just how deeply elements of British reactionism run.
How New Labour Abandoned Workers
New Labour’s neoliberal method of modernisation wasn’t the only path the party could have taken at the end of the twentieth century — it chose to turn its back on the working class.
Ten Times Workers Won in 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, Tribune looks back at ten landmark trade union victories — showing how organised workers are fighting back against greed and exploitation.
The RSA: Putting the ‘Art’ in Apartheid
Last week, the Royal Society of Arts hosted a pro-Israel fundraiser while the country bombed Gaza — and now it’s cracking down on support for Palestine, writes an anonymous staff member.
It’s Time to Take Back Housing
The Right to Buy turned a public good into private profit and birthed the housing crisis. But cities around the world are showing how to reverse this disaster by taking homes out of the hands of profiteers and returning them to public ownership.
Low Pay Keeps the Doctors Away
50,000 junior doctors are on strike today over a 26% cut to their real pay since 2008. This is a fight for the future of the NHS — a fight they won’t back down from anytime soon.
Health Workers Shut Down Gaza War Profiteer
Hundreds of health workers have shut down the London HQ of Palantir in protest at the awarding of NHS contracts to a company complicit in Israel’s ‘ongoing genocide in Gaza’.
The Covid Inquiry Has Already Failed Us
True justice for the victims of the pandemic won’t come from the excuses and apologies offered by politicians before the Covid Inquiry. It will come from ending the unjust political system they uphold.
Here to Stay, Here to Fight: The Bengali Squatters Movement
Faced with institutional racism in council housing and violence on the streets, hundreds of Bengali families in 1970s East London decided to squat, taking over entire streets and estates.
The Miners’ Fight in Their Own Words
Based on the accounts of nearly 150 people directly involved in the 1984-85 miners’ strike, Robert Gildea’s new book is a powerful retelling of the seismic struggle that has divided Britain for decades.