The Pen Pushers’ Revolt
The ongoing acrimony between the Tories and the civil service is more than a spat between bullying ministers and snowflake bureaucrats – it signals the deepening cracks in the British state, writes an anonymous civil servant.
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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.
Mick Lynch: ‘This Is a Battle for the Future of the Railway’
Mick Lynch sits down with Tribune to discuss the latest rail strikes, how the government is scuppering negotiations – and why rail workers are prepared to keep on fighting.
Why the Battle to Unionise Amazon Matters
Amazon workers in Coventry are on the brink of historic union recognition. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that it is possible to fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.
Remembering C. L. R. James
C.L.R James was a Trinidadian Marxist historian, theorist, and Pan-Africanist, His landmark text ‘The Black Jacobins’ remains the authority on Haiti’s slave revolution and one of the greatest radical histories of all time.
More Home Ownership Won’t Fix the Housing Crisis
Labour is pledging extra financial support to help first-time buyers onto the housing ladder – but more homeownership won’t fix a housing crisis caused by treating property as an asset. The party must be far bolder.
Remembering the Peasants’ Revolt
On this day in 1381, the lower classes of southern England began a titanic class struggle against the aristocracy – to demand justice for those who laboured and build a land where ‘everything be common.’
Keeping Keir Hardie’s Legacy Alive
With the Welsh constituency once represented by Keir Hardie to be restored, we should honour the former Labour leader’s legacy in Merthyr Tydfil by continuing his struggle for socialism.
Barcelona Is Fighting for the Right to Housing
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau has taken housing out of the hands of profiteers. In tomorrow’s election, she aims to prove that socialists can reject the market-led development of our cities – and win.
New Labour’s Authoritarianism Is Back
From supporting the criminalisation of peaceful protest and granting spycops immunity to its crackdown on dissent, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has revived New Labour’s contempt for civil liberties.
Mark Serwotka: ‘We’ll Strike Until Christmas’
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, talks to Tribune about their biggest industrial dispute in decades and why the government is playing with fire by demonising and undermining the civil service.
The Lost World of Irish Communism
A new film powerfully explores the rich lives of Communists from across Ireland and their fight for a country free of sectarianism, poverty and all forms of injustice.
The Police Don’t Care About Ending Institutional Racism
That the police have spent the past year cracking down on peaceful protestors while doing nothing to prevent discrimination scandals is proof that the force cares more about protecting the powerful than ending institutional racism.
The Long Shadow of Section 28
The Thatcher government’s Section 28 made it illegal for public bodies to ‘promote homosexuality’ – a policy that continues to detrimentally impact the lives of LGBT+ people decades later.
Fight Inflation, Squeeze the Rich
Tackling inflation doesn’t mean we have to ‘accept being poorer’. We need to clamp down on the greedy few making higher profits than ever before.
Fight Inflation, Squeeze the Rich
Tackling inflation doesn’t mean we have to ‘accept being poorer’. We need to clamp down on the greedy few making higher profits than ever before.
How Starmer Abandoned Left-Wing Economics
Keir Starmer claims ‘difficult choices’ have forced him to abandon his progressive economic agenda – but it’s yet another sign that Labour plans to do little to threaten the establishment.
Bertrand Russell: The Philosopher-Englishman
In memory of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, we republish Michael Foot’s tribute to ‘the incorrigible dissenter, the foremost sceptic and exponent of free thought throughout the last half-dozen decades.’
No to the Cane
In 1972, ten thousand kids walked out of school in Britain to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.
The Strike to Save Local Journalism
The strikes against cuts to regional radio and newspapers are about more than just saving jobs – the fight to protect local journalism is a fight to defend democracy.
Unionising Amazon
Amazon could be forced to recognise a trade union in Britain for the first time following a groundbreaking campaign at the company’s Coventry site – proof that organising can succeed even in the most hostile of environments.