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Owen Dowling

Owen Dowling is a historian and archival researcher at Tribune.

When Tribune Backed the Boycott

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.

Jack Jones’ Docker Internationalism

Union leader Jack Jones – born on this day in 1913 – was known as ‘the most powerful man in Britain’ for defending British workers. But his decades spent fighting Spanish fascism and South African apartheid deserve to be remembered too.

Remembering Fenner Brockway

Fenner Brockway – lifelong socialist and anti-war activist who co-founded War on Want, the CND, and the Movement for Colonial Freedom – was born on this day in 1888. Jeremy Corbyn speaks to Tribune about the debt we owe his memory.

Tribune vs. the Nuclear Bomb

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.