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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
A new report exposes how privatised buses have cost people jobs and benefits, cut them off from schools and healthcare, and deepened isolation – it’s time to end the scandal and bring them into public ownership.
Socialist writer Dawn Foster passed away last week at the age of 34. She was a champion of the working class in a hostile media environment – and deeply committed to the fight for a better world.
From 2005 to 2017, New York lost over 425,000 flats with rents under $900 a month. Now, at the end of the Covid eviction ban, activists are fighting to save the city’s housing from the next wave of destruction.
The Tories have labelled today ‘Freedom Day,’ perpetuating the myth of their commitment to liberty – but their attacks on civil liberties and the means to live a decent life show how little they care about freedom.
The government claims its amnesty in Northern Ireland ‘draws a line’ under the Troubles, but in reality it is a barrier to justice for victims’ families – and an attack on the principles of reconciliation.
Deliveroo’s new partnership with Neighbourhood Watch offers riders training in how to spot crimes, to ‘keep communities safe’ – but the company’s treatment of its workers shows it couldn’t care less about community.
The renewed crises caused by mutating strains of Covid-19 are teaching the West an important lesson – the virus won’t stop at the shores of wealthy countries, and our response can’t either.
Amsterdam’s Vrij Beton or ‘Free Concrete’ project aims to build on the city’s history of squatting and easily available social housing with a collective ownership model for housing in the 21st century.
Politicians often preach that hard work will protect you from poverty and deliver personal fulfilment. But under capitalism, neither of those things are true – labour will only be meaningful if we organise.
For 60 years, Cuba has lived under siege from the most powerful nation on earth, denying it basics like food, medicine and building equipment – anyone who cares about economic hardship must call for it to end.
Throughout the pandemic, poor, minority and disabled people have been worst impacted by Covid and its fallout – the government knows many can’t just ‘learn to live with the virus,’ but it increasingly doesn’t care.
This week, Grace speaks to author and academic Linsey McGoey about how politicians exploit the difference between ignorance and deliberate misinformation, and why, if ‘knowledge is power’, ignorance can be too.
Last night, fan-owned Dublin club Bohemians progressed in Europe for the first time since 2008 – bringing a fundamentally different model of football to a continental game plagued by corporate profiteering.
The Conservative Party is in power and, it appears, in the ascendancy. But a new book argues that it has eroded the security that once turned young people into Tories – and that its future is far from certain.
David Renton is the author of numerous books on the far-right, from a history of the Anti-Nazi League to a theoretical analysis of fascism. He talks to Tribune about what it is – and how it can be fought.
This day in 1789 changed the course of history. On Bastille Day, we republish French socialist Jean Jaurès on the role played by the working class in the French revolution – and the victories it won for democracy.
The embarrassing ‘One Britain One Nation’ day for schools, with its notorious song, passed with hardly any participation – but its existence showed a growing revisionism in the concept of ‘British values’.
Less than 1% of the population own half of England’s land, and with every passing year public right of access is diminishing – enclosing swathes of green spaces to be enjoyed by the rich alone.
The racist abuse directed at England players after the Euro final has been written off as the moral failing of a minority – but in reality it is embedded in the structures and institutions of our society.
Ending the Universal Credit uplift could force up to 1.2 million people into poverty and increase foodbank usage by 20% – but the Tories are pushing ahead because deprivation sustains Britain’s low-pay economy.