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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Billionaires like Elon Musk want to project the same capitalist logic that is destroying Earth into outer space – they won’t succeed, but their ego trips might prevent us from using technology to improve human life.
Priti Patel’s Home Office has announced plans to house asylum seekers in a prison-style complex. The aim is simple: to criminalise people who seek the human right of sanctuary.
New research released this month shows the growing chasm of income inequality that is tearing Britain’s social fabric apart. It can’t be fixed by half measures – we need a fundamentally new economic model.
Grace speaks to host of The Young Turks Ana Kasparian about the state of the US media, the importance of Left alternatives, and what to expect from a Biden presidency.
Tribune editor Ronan Burtenshaw pays tribute to the late socialist writer Leo Panitch, who passed away yesterday – but not before he helped to shape the politics which made Tribune’s relaunch possible.
The relationship between environmentalists and socialists has at times been a fraught one – but if the fight against climate disaster is to be won, we’ll have to work together.
New Home Office policy threatens to punish the foreign homeless with deportation, but Labour councils in London, Oxford and Manchester are pushing back – and have vowed not to comply.
The late John le Carré was the best novelist of the Cold War. By no means of the Left, his portrayals of the British security establishment nonetheless offer an enduring insight into the politics of the ruling class.
Unpaid carers have faced impossible pressures during the Covid-19 pandemic but have been disgracefully abandoned by their government – and forced to survive on just £67.25 per week.
From the 1960s to the ’80s, the Asian Youth Movements organised against racists and the far-right on Britain’s streets. Speaking to Tribune, the activists behind those efforts call for that flame to be reignited.
As the Rolls-Royce strike runs into Christmas, workers are worried about more than their jobs – they fear for the community that would be left behind by the latest devastating chapter of deindustrialisation.
An open letter to the Labour Party leadership from MPs, Lords, trade union leaders and NEC representatives calls for an end to “attacks on party democracy, legitimate discussion and the recent wave of suspensions.”
A decade ago today, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself alight in a Tunisian market and catalysed what’s become known as the ‘Arab Spring’. In Tunisia, at least, his legacy endures.
The 2020 Marmot Review shows the impact of health inequality in England’s Covid deaths. Challenging it will require a new kind of health policy – one that looks beyond the NHS to broader social ills.
Yesterday, Liverpool Walton CLP secretary Alan Gibbons was the latest target of Labour’s mass suspension of socialists. Today he has a message: members make the party, not bureaucrats – and they will fight for their rights.
The government’s review into the outdated 2005 Gambling Act offers a chance to challenge the predatory gambling industry – but first, Labour must tackle its own pro-bookie lobby.
In the 1920s, socialist architect Josef Frank designed homes to maximise freedom – informed by an understanding that workers need the space to separate their work from the rest of their lives.
Last month, Rudy Kurniawan was released after seven years in prison for passing off cheap fakes as fine wine – a crime punished, above all, for exposing ruling class pretensions about taste.
This week the government issued legal threats against a London council for closing schools – showing that it values profits more than the lives of workers, students and their families.
A new study shows that exploitative working conditions have severe impacts on mental health – and makes the case for empowering workers through unions and workplace democracy.