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Rae Hart

Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.

The Fight for the Future of Higher Education

After years of pay cuts, pension attacks and precarity, university staff have escalated their industrial action with a marking and assessment boycott. But management refuses to listen, deducting staff pay and jeopardising student graduations instead.

Ireland’s Neutrality Stitch-Up

A city councillor who was expelled from Ireland’s forum on neutrality explains how the format was skewed to pro-war views – and why a citizens’ assembly should be held in its place.

Celebrating Ken Loach

For over six decades, Ken Loach – who turns 87 today – has made powerful, committed work that unmasks exploitation and highlights ordinary peoples’ struggles against injustice.

No, Capitalism Isn’t Democratic

Authoritarianism is on the rise despite the liberal prediction that the spread of free markets would result in more democracy – that’s because capitalism will always defend social hierarchies against the threat of economic equality.

Austria’s Next Socialist Chancellor

Against centrist elites, hard-right insurgents and a rigged party bureaucracy, the Marxist Andreas Babler’s Corbyn-influenced leadership campaign has won against the odds to secure a socialist direction for Austria’s Social Democrats.

When Tribune Backed the Boycott

In 1959, the African National Congress called for a boycott of South African goods as part of an international effort to bring down the apartheid regime. Tribune was the first paper in Britain to back their call.