Eurovision’s Songs of Shame
The uproar resulting from Israel’s participation in Eurovision has ensured tonight’s event will only be remembered as a failed attempt to whitewash its Gaza genocide.
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Steve Albini, the Facilitator
Steve Albini, who has died aged 61, was one of the most uncompromising figures to ever defend art against its corruption by market forces, and for musicians to be considered as workers who deserved the full fruits of their labour.
A New Model Britain
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram quit Westminster after seeing how it made real change impossible. Speaking to Tribune, they discuss how injustices from Hillsborough to the housing crisis come from a system wired against northerners and workers everywhere.
Labour’s Gang of Five
Andy Beckett’s new book tracks the journey of Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell — under the influence of Tony Benn — from Labour outcasts to their attempt to remake British capitalism.
The Tory Dustbin
Labour’s newest MP has an astonishing record: defending convicted sex offenders and attacking everyone from refugees to Marcus Rashford. Natalie Elphicke’s defection doesn’t show her principles have changed, but how Labour has abandoned theirs.
The Imperial Typewriters Strike at 50
Fifty years ago this week, South Asians at Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory went on strike to demand respect and dignity at work — confronting the racism of their bosses and the unions that failed to support them.
Remembering Altab Ali
On this day, in 1978, garment worker Altab Ali was murdered in a racist attack in East London. Over four decades on, the struggle against racism continues, writes Apsana Begum MP.
Tribune & Anti-Colonial Africa
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.
Remembering Wally Nixon
From facing some of World War Two’s bloodiest battles to becoming a union organiser and opposing austerity in his retirement, Walter Nixon — who has died aged 101 — spent his whole life fighting injustice.
Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger!
Today would have been Pete Seeger’s birthday. We remember his contributions to song and socialism.
Ending London’s Housing Nightmare
Unless Sadiq Khan can discover the courage to take on the profiteers driving London’s housing emergency, his victory in today’s mayoral election will mean little to the city’s renters.
Jeremy Corbyn: Our Political Class Are Emboldening the Far Right
The Rwanda scheme is a repulsive election stunt from a government devoid of humanity. We must resist both the policy and the racist rhetoric that underpins it, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
Inequality Is the Price of Corporate Greed
Dividend payments to rich shareholders have grown 14 times faster than workers’ wages. This explosion in inequality is not an accident — it’s the result of an economy designed to reward corporate greed.
Jamie Driscoll’s Challenge to Labour Is the Shape of Things to Come
While the Tories will receive a drubbing in this week’s local elections, Jamie Driscoll’s North East mayoral candidacy has captured much attention — and highlighted Labour’s future electoral headaches, should Starmerism disappoint.
Rebuilding the Bonds
The miners’ strike was sustained by a broad coalition that coalesced entire communities. Forty years on, we must rebuild the bonds of solidarity, learn the lessons of defeat and reilluminate the possibilities that went dark as the pit entrances swung back open.
Arthur Scargill: ‘I Can’t Spell the Word Compromise; I Never Have’
Faced with the wholesale destruction of pit communities, Britain’s miners and their supporters waged a struggle that has gone down as one of the most heroic moments in working-class history.
The Coalfield and the City
Despite being considered divorced from the coalfield communities in every imaginable way, the wave of enthusiasm shown for the miners’ struggle by London’s diverse workforces and communities proved to be a decisive form of support.
Workers of the World United
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.
Women Against Pit Closures: ‘We Got On With It’
Against Thatcher’s plans to starve the miners back to work, the political and physical sustenance of the miners’ strike was wholly dependent on the skills and determination of thousands of working-class women.
‘There Was a Whole World We Were Fighting For’
Since the release of Pride a decade ago, the story of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners has become legendary. Now, in what’s likely to be its final year, members reflect on defeats and unexpected victories.