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Karl Hansen is the editor-at-large of Tribune.
Last year, Keir Starmer pledged that the Hillsborough Law would be passed by the disaster’s 36th anniversary, which is today. Its delay is further evidence of his government’s priorities: protecting powerful interests against the threat of justice.
Keir Starmer’s refusal to discuss authorising UK-made missiles to strike Russia provides a telling example about our elites — even when they’re risking nuclear war, they don’t think people deserve an explanation.
Today, Labour’s annual conference voted to scrap the proposals to cut winter fuel allowance. If Keir Starmer wants to stall his crashing popularity, he would be wise to listen to his members.
Keir Starmer’s decision to suspend MPs opposing child poverty exposes not only his authoritarian instincts but his fear of discussion over arguments he knows he cannot win.
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.
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.
From Covid-19 to the 2008 Crash, recurrent crises are structurally embedded in our increasingly globalised economy. It is time to reject the ineffective immoral economics of old and to build a real alternative.
Ken Loach sits down with Tribune to discuss his career, the opportunities for political cinema today, and why artists should unmask exploitation and highlight ordinary peoples’ struggles against injustice.
Labour has thrown millions of the most exploited workers under the bus to curry favour with the big business lobby — a staggering act of political cowardice. Unless the party corrects its course, things can only get bitter.
This week, Labour U-turned on its pledge to raise sick pay and guarantee it to all — abandoning millions of precarious workers to choose between their health and financial crisis.
By watering down its commitment to workers’ rights, the Labour Party is abandoning its last truly transformative policy – and consigning millions to a future of workplace insecurity.
Michael Marmot – one of Britain’s leading healthcare voices – speaks to Tribune about how austerity and the epidemic of social inequality threaten the future of the NHS.
In 1971, the Tories introduced landmark anti-worker legislation — but trade unions refused to obey and ultimately forced the government to back down.
On this day 34 years ago, 97 football fans went to a match and never came back. Looking back, Hillsborough survivor Ian Byrne MP discusses the cross-football solidarity movement still fighting for justice.
Pay Review Bodies aren’t independent sources of unbiased information – they’re tools the government uses to hide its own responsibility for keeping wages unliveably low.
The Tories’ latest attack on workers’ rights would see nurses and firefighters sacked, trade unions bankrupted and long-held democratic rights undermined. Here are 10 reasons why you should oppose the anti-strike laws.
The government’s proposed anti-union laws are a historic attack on the right to strike. The aims are simple: to weaken workers and keep wages low in a cost-of-living crisis. It’s time for a mass movement to fight back.
In 2022, trade unions responded to the cost of living crisis with a wave of strikes – the biggest fightback waged by the organised working class in decades.
On October 1, 57 simultaneous protests took place across the country — from Dundee to Weymouth — against the cost-of-living crisis. Participants were united in their demands for a fundamentally different economic system.
For far too long, railway workers and passengers alike have been shafted by a government hellbent on destroying our railways for the pursuit of profit. Railway workers are fighting back – for all of us.