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Miriam Pensack is a writer, editor, and doctoral candidate in Latin American history at New York University.
Healthcare assistants are the very backbone of the NHS. Forced to work above their pay grades for poverty wages, they’re gearing up to strike for the pay – and the recognition – they deserve.
Authoritarianism is on the rise despite the liberal prediction that the spread of free markets would result in more democracy – that’s because capitalism will always defend social hierarchies against the threat of economic equality.
Underpaid, overworked, and struggling to hold up a health service in collapse: Dr Vivek Trivedi from the BMA talks to Tribune about the exodus of staff from the NHS – and why their strike is a fight to save the health service.
Guyanese Marxist Walter Rodney was assassinated on this day in 1980. We republish his final essay on the struggle for democracy in his native land.
Against centrist elites, hard-right insurgents and a rigged party bureaucracy, the Marxist Andreas Babler’s Corbyn-influenced leadership campaign has won against the odds to secure a socialist direction for Austria’s Social Democrats.
In 1959, the African National Congress called for a boycott of South African goods as part of an international effort to bring down the apartheid regime. Tribune was the first paper in Britain to back their call.
On 7 June 1832, the first Representation of the People Act passed, laying the foundations for the growth of representative democracy in Britain – it was a partial victory won by centuries of agitation.
The blocking of Jamie Driscoll as North East Mayor shows that Labour is acting like a narrow clique with no respect for the party’s pluralist traditions.
Rachel Reeves claims a Labour government would embrace ‘Bidenomics’ – but her commitment to austerity and hostility to striking workers makes clear the party is even less willing to challenge elite interests than its US counterpart.
After years of pitiful pay, workers at Allied Bakeries in Merseyside are on strike this weekend to demand their worth.
In its latest attack on Palestinian human rights, the German police have unleashed a chilling crackdown on Nakba commemorations – including banning the holding of watermelons and repressing Jewish anti-apartheid protesters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.’
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 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.
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.