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Owen Dowling is a historian and archival researcher at Tribune.
In Martin Luther King’s era, Tribune provided an important platform to the civil rights movement in both Britain and the US, cementing the publication’s beliefs that racial justice was inseparable from the struggle for socialism.
UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese speaks to Tribune about Israel’s genocide as a form of ‘colonial erasure’ — and why the Palestinian cause is a symbol of resistance against all forms of exploitation.
At the launch of Islington North’s first ‘People’s Forum’, Jeremy Corbyn speaks to Tribune about organising community campaigns outside the Labour Party — and responds to the latest international crises.
In 1970s Britain, trade unions responded to the growth of the National Front by mobilising on the streets — a lesson today’s workers’ movement must rediscover to defeat a new fascist threat.
From the moment the first American bomb was dropped on Vietnam, Tribune was at the forefront of the anti-war movement. It was a cause that shaped the publication for decades.
As the world inches closer to nuclear war, survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki speak to Tribune about the urgent need to rid the world of atomic weapons.
As Europe’s right-wing politicians exploit the 80th anniversary of D-Day for their reactionary ends, Tribune remembers its significance for the progressive and anti-fascist revolutions which followed.
At his campaign launch, Jeremy Corbyn explains to Tribune that his run against Keir Starmer’s Labour is more than about social justice — it’s about defending the fundamental principles of democracy and honesty in politics.
In the years after the Second World War, African independence fighters seized world attention, forcing democrats in Europe to reckon with problems of colonialism and freedom on the continent. Tribune’s historical journey towards emphatic support for African decolonisation leaves a record of enormous relevance for the anti-colonial left today.
To advance the miners’ fight in Britain, some 6,000 Australian miners sacrificed their own jobs. Their heroic stance was one of many international actions in defence of British mining communities.
On the 30th anniversary of his seminal expose of the British state’s war on Arthur Scargill and mining communities, Seumas Milne explains how those same forces worked to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership.
In the years after the Second World War, African independence fighters seized world attention, forcing democrats in Europe to reckon with problems of colonialism and freedom on the continent. Tribune’s historical journey towards emphatic support for African decolonisation leaves a record of enormous relevance for the anti-colonial left today.
This week marked the 100th birthday of E.P. Thompson, pioneer of ‘history from below’ and his generation’s foremost crusader against the nuclear arms race and the politics of exterminism.
At Saturday’s Palestine solidarity protest — which took place on E.P. Thompson’s centenary — Jeremy Corbyn, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s Kate Hudson and John McDonnell remember the pioneer of ‘history from below’ and the debt owed to him by the anti-war movement.
In the 1980s, Tribune proudly provided a platform for gay and lesbian rights campaigners facing down prejudice, Thatcherism, and AIDS. The history behind its arrival at that position reveals much about the relationship between British LGBT activism and the socialist movement.
‘The tragedy of Tuesday’s military coup in Chile will not, I think, be the end of the affair. It is a tragedy of overwhelming proportions for Chile, for Latin America, and for socialists everywhere.’
A new book edited by Ronnie Kasrils finally reveals the secret operations taken by foreign volunteers against South African apartheid — actions that Kasrils says played an ‘enormous’ role in the regime’s downfall.
On the 50th anniversary of Chile’s 9/11, Jeremy Corbyn sits down with Tribune to discuss how Chilean socialism inspired his politics and why Pinochet’s coup reminds us of the danger of fascism.
After escaping Pinochet’s bloody military coup, Mike Gatehouse returned to Britain to lead the Chile Solidarity Campaign. 50 years on, he sits down with Tribune to discuss why the crusade against Chilean fascism should inspire socialists today.
In the years leading up to the creation of the NHS, its founder Aneurin Bevan edited this magazine. He used its pages to advocate for a healthcare revolution.