The Mirage of Progressive Scotland
With the Tories in power for a decade, English liberals have increasingly projected their aspirations onto ‘progressive’ Scotland – but from economic policy to Covid-19, its government is not a model to follow.
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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
To Tackle Obesity, Fight Inequality
By shifting the blame for obesity onto individuals, the government is covering up its own contributions to the structural causes – from shutting leisure centres to supporting low wages and longer working hours.
How a Bold Left Can Still Shape the Future
Britain and the world face overlapping crises of historic proportions. Only the Left can meet the challenges of our time but that means urgently organising around a popular programme.
How Unions Are Responding to the Employment Crisis
With unemployment numbers rising rapidly, and the end of the furlough approaching, trade unions are the last line of defence for thousands of workers trying to save their livelihoods.
Murdoch’s Long Shadow
Rupert Murdoch’s regular – and private – meetings with Boris Johnson show how much influence the media baron still exerts over British politics – and why his power needs to be challenged.
It’s Time to Fight Against Another Lost Decade
After the last economic crisis, government policies drove wages down, inequality up and the economy into permanent stagnation – we can’t let them get away with it again.
Why Liberalism Can’t Solve the Crisis of Democracy
Liberals increasingly realise that astronomical inequalities are tearing democracy apart – but won’t support figures like Corbyn or Sanders because they can’t countenance the radical change required to save it.
Builders Crack
A recently rediscovered movie premiering this week tells the story of ‘Builders Crack,’ a radical workers’ magazine which helped organise building sites in the 1990s against gangster bosses.
Latin America’s Co-ops Are an Alternative to Housing Crisis
For decades, countries in Latin America – from Mexico to Chile and Uruguay – have experimented with collective ownership of housing in an attempt to prevent the kind of crisis currently engulfing Britain’s cities.
Bringing the Culture War to Campus
Unwilling to take on the economic elite which is to blame for growing inequality, the Tory government has decided to turn the public’s attention to a war against different enemy – students and universities.
Introducing ‘The Cause’
Today we have launched ‘The Cause,’ a new weekly bulletin from Tribune covering the labour movement and socialist politics. Read the first instalment here.
The Demise of Radical Keynesianism
The work of John Maynard Keynes and his followers reached many radical conclusions – but their unwillingness to break with the idea of a ‘natural’ market undermined the effort to bring them into being.
RSPCA: Kind to Animals, Cruel to Workers
Last month, the RSPCA announced plans to sack 20% of its workforce – just weeks after it had forced all workers onto reduced terms. It is a reminder of the stark inequalities which scar the charity sector.
Bolivia’s Ongoing Coup
Faced with a victory for Evo Morales’ MAS party, the Bolivian government has postponed elections once again – the latest attack on democracy by a coup regime which Western powers supported in its name.
Gary Younge: ‘We Need a Systemic Understanding of How Race Impacts Life’
Writer and academic Gary Younge speaks to Tribune about the global Black Lives Matter movement, the persistence of racism in Britain – and why racial awareness training won’t cut it.
Remembering Andrew Mlangeni
Ronnie Kasrils remembers his comrade Andrew Mlangeni, giant of the South African struggle against apartheid who spent 26 years in the cell beside Nelson Mandela at Robben Island.
How Cuba Survived
For decades, commentators predicted that Cuba’s socialist model couldn’t survive without the USSR or Fidel Castro. They were wrong – and even in the face of continued sanctions, its unique system endures.
The Guardian Doesn’t Get Ireland
In praising the ‘enviable beauty’ of the country’s new right-wing government, The Guardian turned Ireland into fare for its own liberal nostalgia – and presented a distorted view of its politics.
One Annexation Among Many
The proposed annexation of the West Bank is not the exception but the rule when it comes to Israel’s decades-long dispossession of the Palestinians – the only difference is this time, they’re not pretending.
A Fallen Mascot
Under the Ben Ali dictatorship, Tunisia was filled with figures of Labib – an ‘environmentalist’ mascot who encouraged citizens to pick up litter. His image now symbolises a web of greenwashing and corruption.