The Modern World is More Complicated Than This
Change UK’s calamitous performance of recent weeks isn’t simply down to incompetence. It reflects the profound lack of insight and ambition that plagues Britain’s political centre.
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Marcus Barnett
Marcus Barnett is associate editor at Tribune.
Rebuilding the Union Movement
CWU leader Dave Ward on the lessons he learned from 40 years of trade unionism, and the bold approach the movement needs to adopt today to tackle its decline.
Britain’s Last Brigadista
Geoffrey Servante passed away earlier this week aged 99. He was almost certainly the last Briton to fight fascism in the International Brigades to Spain.
Remembering the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass
On this day in 1932, hundreds of workers took to the hills of northern England to challenge the right of landed gentry to enclose the countryside.
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On this day in 1943, a band of Jewish resistance fighters launched an armed insurrection against the Nazis. They were proud socialists and internationalists.
The Real Dad’s Army
The wartime Home Guard is immortalised in popular culture — but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
Barrow Deserves Better
John Woodcock set a low bar for a Labour MP for Barrow. Chris Altree, the local left-winger selected to replace him, promises a new direction.
Life in the Century’s Midnight
On International Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember the resistance that organised itself in Nazi death camps.
Life in the Century’s Midnight
On International Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember the resistance that organised itself in Nazi death camps.
Backing Rojava
Last year, Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle visited Rojava to learn about its radical democratic ‘revolution’. He argues that support for the Kurdish cause is now more important than ever.
Remembering the 43 Group
After the Second World War, Jewish soldiers returned to Britain and had to fight fascism all over again.
Young Workers Fight for a Living Wage in London
More than 1,000 young Londoners have been short-changed by leisure giant Greenwich Leisure Limited. But now they’re fighting back.
Organising Amazon
In recent months the GMB has waged a guerrilla campaign to help workers in one of the richest companies in the world fight appalling conditions.