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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
In the 1970s, British South Asians faced a vicious tidal wave of racism from street gangs and the state. A new series details how they fought back — for themselves and those that came after them.
In a society where a third of workers think their job is meaningless, an alternative to constant toiling in unproductive work is urgently needed: it’s time to demand a four-day week.
Liverpool’s celebrated local museums pay so poorly that its workers go home to cold homes and empty cupboards. It’s no wonder they have gone on strike to demand the better wages they deserve.
A new play at the National Theatre explores Nye Bevan’s hard-fought struggle against healthcare profiteers to create the NHS — a fight we must rediscover to save the service from today’s privatisation-loving politicians.
A new exhibition examines working-class photography in the UK in the years since 1989 — and demonstrates art’s potential to expose political failure and social division.
The allegations that Labour has used its online voting system to rig parliamentary selections suggest that Starmer’s addiction to purging the left is corroding the integrity of Britain’s democratic system.
Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.
After artists collectively removed their work from a Manchester arts centre in protest at its censorship of a Palestinian literature celebration, bosses were forced to reinstate the event — in a stunning victory for those opposing genocide in Gaza.
Labour has ditched its ambitious green policies in favour of market-based solutions — but relying on private companies to solve the climate crisis is like asking an arsonist to put out the fire they started.
The election of Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah to the rectorship of Glasgow University has been a victory for Palestinian solidarity — and a stunning rebuke of the university’s collaboration with the arms trade.
During the English Civil War, a band of radicals set out to make the world a common treasury. But the Diggers weren’t just pioneering socialists — they were forerunners of the environmental movement too.
A new book which draws from Manchester’s radical past to chart a future free from landlordism erases Mancunians from their own story — and leads to political incoherence, writes Sam Wheeler.
Medics tortured and executed, operations without anaesthetic, patients dying from starvation. Gaza’s medical workers speak to Tribune about Israel’s apocalyptic war on healthcare.
In 1922, Shapurji Saklatvala was elected as Labour’s first MP of colour. He was a fighter against colonialism and war — and for an international socialism that could unite the world’s working-class.
Now the High Court has recognised Julian Assange may be executed by America for exposing war crimes, the fight to save his life and defend press freedom could not be more urgent.
In the 1950s, a system of corporate courts was created to allow Western businesses to sue the Global South for threatening their profits — and now fossil fuel giants are using it to stop any country from fighting the climate crisis.
William Morris is most famous for his iconic patterns, but a new collection of his writings shows the other passion of his life: a conviction that only the overthrow of capitalism could liberate humanity.
On William Morris’ birthday, we republish his lecture on the decorative arts — in which he laid out his vision of art created by and for the people, and the post-capitalist world that would make it possible.
As Western governments drummed up consent for war against Iraq, George Michael’s ‘Shoot the Dog’ utterly withered Tony Blair — and pushed anti-war politics into the mainstream.
Pioneering socialist William Morris on the Paris Commune and its legacy as a ‘great tragedy which definitely and irrevocably elevated the cause of Socialism.’