Back the 13th Note Strikers

This weekend, staff at Glasgow’s 13th Note are staging the first bar strike in Scotland for 20 years. Their fight is proof that workers can organise against the worst conditions in the most casualised industries.

Boot the Bailiffs Out

London authorities are hiring bailiffs to bully and intimidate residents struggling to pay their council tax. In response, a community campaign is organising to demand an end to this disgraceful practice.

De-Staffing by Stealth: The Fight for the Future of the Railway

The campaign against ticket office closures isn’t just about fighting proposals that make railways less accessible – it is against bosses wrecking a vital public service while their millions keep flowing in.

Is Labour Backsliding on Workers’ Rights?

Labour has quietly dropped key policies to guarantee basic rights and protections at work and strengthen trade unions – a U-turn that would harm millions of the country’s most exploited workers.

Water Privatisation is a Scandal

Water companies have loaded themselves with debt while pumping sewage into waterways, hiking bills and paying out billions to shareholders – a scam against the public that will only end by taking our water back from the profiteers.

Labour’s Self-Imposed Straitjacket

Labour may win the next election by convincing the establishment that the economy is safe in their hands. But they won’t solve any of the crises the country is facing by imitating Tory spending plans – they might even make things worse.

Why We Challenged Starmer’s Climate U-turn

Keir Starmer says he wants young people to find their voice and speak with confidence – that’s exactly what we did, holding him accountable for yet another U-turn on the climate crisis.

‘I Don’t Know How I’ll Cope if They Disappear’: The Fight to Save Ticket Offices

The government is presiding over a managed decline of the railway. The closure of 1000 ticket offices is the latest move to make rail travel less safe and accessible while shareholders line their pockets.

How the NHS Was Won

The NHS wasn’t handed down by elites, it was won through struggle – one which pitted Aneurin Bevan and the labour movement against the interests of the healthcare profiteers.

Aneurin Bevan on the Socialist Roots of the NHS

On this day in 1948, the National Health Service was born. To mark the occasion, its founder, Aneurin Bevan, spoke to Tribune about the socialist ambitions of public healthcare.

The New French Revolt

The French establishment has dismissed the riots as a purely criminal affair, refusing to accept its true cause: widespread anger at murderous policing, racial inequality, social deprivation, and a state in total crisis.

A Two-Tier System Is an Existential Threat to the NHS

An NHS crisis caused by cuts and privatisation can’t be solved by allowing yet more profiteering. The only solution is to return public healthcare to its socialist roots.

Health futurism: Sci-fi & the Future of Healthcare

Technology Is Not a Cure

Many believe that technology will lead us to a future of better health. But it could also dismantle our public health systems.

Renewing Bevan’s Vision

If the NHS is to survive, we must set out an agenda that not only defends it but aims to expand its mandate to new arenas.

The NHS: Safe in Labour Hands?

As a Starmer government becomes increasingly likely, the Labour Party’s plans for the NHS leave much to be desired.

A Movement to End Outsourcing

The contracting-out of key NHS functions to private profiteers has eroded public healthcare — we need a movement to end it for good.

Consultants Are Striking Against a Broken NHS

With real pay falling by a third since 2009 and conditions continuing to deteriorate, consultants have escalated strike action. An anonymous senior doctor writes for Tribune about the reality of working in a healthcare system on the brink of collapse.

How a Historic Strike Wave Rocked the NHS

The last year has seen historic walkouts across the NHS. Workers are fighting not just for terms and conditions but for the future of public healthcare.

Michael Marmot: ‘The Social Contract Has Been Broken’

Michael Marmot – one of Britain’s leading healthcare voices – speaks to Tribune about how austerity and the epidemic of social inequality threaten the future of the NHS.