Deliveroo’s Courier Cops
Deliveroo’s new partnership with Neighbourhood Watch offers riders training in how to spot crimes, to ‘keep communities safe’ – but the company’s treatment of its workers shows it couldn’t care less about community.
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Ko Leik Pya
Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
Only International Solidarity Can Defeat Covid For Good
The renewed crises caused by mutating strains of Covid-19 are teaching the West an important lesson – the virus won’t stop at the shores of wealthy countries, and our response can’t either.
Amsterdam’s ‘Free Concrete’ Project Is Aiming to Collectivise Housing
Amsterdam’s Vrij Beton or ‘Free Concrete’ project aims to build on the city’s history of squatting and easily available social housing with a collective ownership model for housing in the 21st century.
Debunking the Myths of Modern Work
Politicians often preach that hard work will protect you from poverty and deliver personal fulfilment. But under capitalism, neither of those things are true – labour will only be meaningful if we organise.
The Only Way to End Economic Hardship in Cuba Is to Lift the US Blockade
For 60 years, Cuba has lived under siege from the most powerful nation on earth, denying it basics like food, medicine and building equipment – anyone who cares about economic hardship must call for it to end.
Not Everyone Can ‘Learn to Live with the Virus’
Throughout the pandemic, poor, minority and disabled people have been worst impacted by Covid and its fallout – the government knows many can’t just ‘learn to live with the virus,’ but it increasingly doesn’t care.
44. Ignorance Is Power: An Interview with Linsey McGoey
This week, Grace speaks to author and academic Linsey McGoey about how politicians exploit the difference between ignorance and deliberate misinformation, and why, if ‘knowledge is power’, ignorance can be too.
How Dublin’s Bohemians Are Bringing Fan-Owned Football into Europe
Last night, fan-owned Dublin club Bohemians progressed in Europe for the first time since 2008 – bringing a fundamentally different model of football to a continental game plagued by corporate profiteering.
The Crumbling Foundations of the Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is in power and, it appears, in the ascendancy. But a new book argues that it has eroded the security that once turned young people into Tories – and that its future is far from certain.
Myths and Realities of the Fight Against the Far-Right
David Renton is the author of numerous books on the far-right, from a history of the Anti-Nazi League to a theoretical analysis of fascism. He talks to Tribune about what it is – and how it can be fought.
Why We Celebrate the Storming of the Bastille
This day in 1789 changed the course of history. On Bastille Day, we republish French socialist Jean Jaurès on the role played by the working class in the French revolution – and the victories it won for democracy.
One Britain Tunnel Vision
The embarrassing ‘One Britain One Nation’ day for schools, with its notorious song, passed with hardly any participation – but its existence showed a growing revisionism in the concept of ‘British values’.
Britain’s New Enclosure
Less than 1% of the population own half of England’s land, and with every passing year public right of access is diminishing – enclosing swathes of green spaces to be enjoyed by the rich alone.
Racism Isn’t a Problem of ‘a Few Bad Individuals’
The racist abuse directed at England players after the Euro final has been written off as the moral failing of a minority – but in reality it is embedded in the structures and institutions of our society.
Ending the UC Uplift Shows that Poverty Is Tory Government Policy
Ending the Universal Credit uplift could force up to 1.2 million people into poverty and increase foodbank usage by 20% – but the Tories are pushing ahead because deprivation sustains Britain’s low-pay economy.
The Tories’ Latest Plan to Wreck the NHS
The Tories’ Health and Care Bill not only provides new opportunities for private firms to decide policy and pick up contracts – it also reduces the local accountability which keeps essential services in place.
The Icelandic Popstars who Brought Palestine to Eurovision
In 2019, performers heading to Israel were told to keep politics out of the Eurovision. A new documentary tells the story of Hatari, the Icelandic band who defied the authorities by flying the Palestinian flag.
The England Team Are the Best of Us
The racist abuse directed at England’s football players since last night’s match is not an anomaly – it’s the consequence of politicians and media outlets demonising them for their efforts to make this country better.
Leave the Billionaires in Space
The space race playing out among billionaires like Branson, Bezos and Musk has little to do with science – it’s a PR-driven spectacle designed to distract us from the disasters capitalism is causing here on Earth.
Black Country Rock
Paul Mendez’s novel ‘Rainbow Milk’ celebrates the accents and voices of the Black Country, following its characters from Jamaica to Dudley to London.