The People’s University
The pioneering Open University was Harold Wilson’s brainchild, but it was Jennie Lee’s social vision that brought it to fruition.
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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.
Ending the Hostile Environment
We must make sure scandals like Windrush never happen again.
The Town that Labour Built
After the Second World War, Labour built Harlow’s new town as a haven for working-class life. If we are to win it back, we need to show the same ambition for its future.
The Govan By-Election: Thirty Years On
In November 1988 the SNP overturned a Labour majority of 13,000 in a campaign that foreshadowed their rise to the top of Scottish politics.
Another Britain Is Possible
The Left must meet this moment in history with a bold plan to remake our economy — or someone else will.
The Legacy of Eleanor Marx
On her birthday, we celebrate the life of Eleanor Marx.
How to Campaign for Social Change — and Win
Matt Zarb-Cousin talks about the fight against Fixed Odds Betting Terminals — and the lessons it can teach campaigners taking on powerful vested interests.
Can We Imagine a Socialist Spotify?
Streaming services are hastening music’s subservience to advertising and ripping off musicians — but they could serve more utopian purposes.
Looking Back on the World Revolution
Starting a bi-monthly books column, Owen Hatherley looks at a stack of new memoirs and collections on revolutionary ‘Third Worldism’, from 1920s China to 1980s Burkina Faso.
Organising TGIs
There’s no future for trade unions without young workers, and recent campaigns in the hospitality sector show that they can be organised.
Striking Back
Precarity, lack of representation, and injuries have had devastating impacts on the lives of non-league footballers. Now, with the help of the GMB, they’re starting to unionise.
A Letter from Warsaw
In Poland’s bleak post-Communist politics, nationalists are increasingly defeating the neoliberals by identifying themselves with popular interests.
As I Please: Year in Review
Tribune Editor-at-large Chris McLaughlin takes stock of 2018 and looks to the challenges of the year ahead.
Make the Post Public Again
Five years on from privatisation, it’s time to take postal services back into public hands — and revolutionise their relationship to workers and communities.
Let’s Bury Thatcherism in 2019
This year can be the end not just of austerity but of forty years of neoliberalism.
A Tale of Three Cities
David Harvey traces our changing relationship to housing through the city of use value, the city of exchange value, and the city of speculative gain.
Food Bank Britain
There is a new approach to poverty in Britain: starve people out of it.
The New Marginal
In 2010 Iain Duncan Smith won his north-east London constituency by 13,000 votes — but now it’s trending red.
Abolish Silicon Valley
The tech industry’s problems can’t be solved by half measures.
‘Everyone should know — I am very dangerous’
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, tribune of the French left, on the politics of his movement, the question of internationalism, and the way forward in Europe.