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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
This week, Grace speaks to Paul Dennett, the city-mayor of Salford, and Matthew Brown, the leader of Preston City Council, about why explicitly socialist campaigns defied Labour’s election downturn.
Yesterday, an inquest found that 10 people killed by the British Army in Belfast in 1971 were ‘entirely innocent.’ The decision exposes one 50-year cover-up of state violence – and raises questions about many others.
Scottish Labour’s performance in the election has received praise, but the bright spots can’t disguise the party’s overall decline – and its policy of writing off working-class SNP voters remains a costly mistake.
The Tories are proposing voter ID laws to solve the almost non-existent problem of voter fraud – but what they really want is to copy their Republican cousins in the US and disenfranchise poorer voters.
From the earliest days, Britain’s government has been complicit in the dispossession of Palestinians – and today, as Israel’s violence deepens, it is also a key supplier of weapons to its brutal military occupation.
The media continues to treat Israelis and Palestinians as equal participants in a conflict, but events in Sheikh Jarrah expose the reality – what we’re seeing is a battle between coloniser and colonised.
The government has claimed to stand against fire and rehire practices, which threaten 1 in 10 workers across Britain – but these words will ring hollow unless they take action in today’s Queen’s Speech.
J. D. Bernal, a Marxist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography, was born on this day in 1901 – his works inspired a litany of fiction writers, and showed how science could build a world for the working class.
Starmer’s response to last week’s election disaster has been to push further rightwards in messaging and personnel – a move that will make it even harder for Labour to articulate a progressive alternative.
While Labour mourns its English losses, the Welsh party won a historic victory by articulating a clear vision – one that centred local issues, put people ahead of profit, and proved that socialist values can resonate.
As conditions at work deteriorate, the number of ’employee wellbeing schemes’ is on the rise – but no amount of self-care can substitute for a living wage, manageable hours and secure employment.
It is increasingly clear that the coalition Labour built in 2017 was a rare blip amid decades of decline – but from the beginning, right-wing forces in the Parliamentary Labour Party wanted to tear it apart.
The Police Crackdown Bill isn’t an anomaly, it follows two ‘public order’ acts in 1986 and 1994 – together, they amount to a war on civil liberties which spans the past 30 years.
Amid disaster for Labour in elections across its former industrial heartlands, Salford’s socialist council gained ground – its mayor Paul Dennett writes for Tribune about the transformative policies which made it possible.
Labour’s election defeats are a symptom of a party which has forgotten its primary role – standing up for working people and defending their interests across society.
Today’s results show that Labour under Starmer is in deep crisis – the only path to recovery runs through a bold, transformative agenda which can inspire members, win voters and take the fight to the Tories.
Keir Starmer has attempted to blame today’s election disaster on Jeremy Corbyn – but his leadership has hollowed out the party, refused to offer a vision for change and left many with little reason to vote Labour.
From a lack of investment in public healthcare to mishandling vaccine production, India’s far-right BJP government has failed its people during the pandemic – and paved the way for the present Covid disaster.
From the 1970s to the 2000s, Britain’s undercover police surveilled at least 20 families seeking justice for lost loved ones – including those who died at the hands of the police themselves.
Consultation ends today on the Home Office’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’ – a set of provisions that will make life for asylum seekers even harder, and further entrench the Hostile Environment.