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Ko Leik Pya works as a teacher and writer in the UK and Myanmar. He writes here under a pseudonym.
Britain’s bin workers were clapped as heroes during the pandemic, but that appreciation was never reflected in their pay packets – in Worthing and Barrow, they’re striking to get what they deserve.
Elizabeth Eden, whose story was dramatised by 1975 film ‘Dog Day Afternoon,’ was a pioneering trans figure in popular culture – but her political impact runs far deeper than a botched bank robbery.
New polling shows that 3 million people expect cost of living increases to push them into debt, joining 8.5 million people already struggling to repay – to avoid another disaster, it’s time for a debt writedown.
Out of 28,300 applications, just 2,700 visas have been issued to refugees through Homes for Ukraine – suggesting the scheme is more about deflecting political pressure than solidarity with those fleeing war.
From rising bills to falling wages to the P&O scandal, the Tory government is presiding over a collapsing economy for workers – and it can only be fought by trade union organisation.
As part of its Community Wealth Building agenda, Islington is launching a new scheme to kickstart the borough’s co-operative economy – and put power back in workers’ hands.
Rishi Sunak saw out the pandemic hailed by the media as a hero, but he was never a real friend to normal people – and his refusal to fight the cost of living crisis makes that fact unavoidable.
Growing numbers of university staff face gig economy conditions with low pay and no security. Now they’re striking – not just for their own conditions, but for the future of higher education.
Since 2017, local councils have been banned from setting up their own municipal bus companies. The government promised to review the ban a year ago – now, with our for-profit public transport in deepening crisis, it’s time to deliver.
Left-wing lawfare is a growing phenomenon – but legal challenges simply can’t replace the power of organised labour.
This week, Grace chats to David Wearing, author of ‘AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain’, about Boris Johnson’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE – and how the energy crisis will transform world politics.
Hundreds of Scottish miners were wrongly convicted during the 1984-5 strike, and their lives and livelihoods destroyed as a result. Scotland now has a chance to right that wrong with both pardons and compensation – and must take it.
For years The Jeremy Kyle Show shamed and demonised poor people, recasting social problems as individual failings. The programme might now be over, but the wildly unequal world it helped justify endures.
The Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre was set up with £200 million in public money just four years ago. Now the Tories are now selling it off – and yet again risking public health to make a quick buck.
A quiet revolution is under way, and the most organised cohort of Tory MPs is the one plotting the PM’s downfall.
There has always been an affinity between socialism and science fiction, a genre that makes clear it is still possible to imagine new societies — however much our miserable politics might claim otherwise.
Mike Leigh’s apocalyptic ‘Naked’ was a terrifying picture of early 1990s Britain, alone in the director’s oeuvre in its brutal pessimism. How does it stand up in the equally bleak early 2020s?
The American leftist poet Diane di Prima wrote her ‘Revolutionary Letters’ for over forty years, filling them with both advice and anger.
A new history of early socialists in Bulgaria documents how many problems of the movement reach across the generations.
From the moment the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Tribune was at the forefront of the campaign against nuclear weapons. It was a cause that shaped the magazine for decades.