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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Amazon workers in Coventry are on the brink of historic union recognition. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that it is possible to fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.
C.L.R James was a Trinidadian Marxist historian, theorist, and Pan-Africanist, His landmark text ‘The Black Jacobins’ remains the authority on Haiti’s slave revolution and one of the greatest radical histories of all time.
Labour is pledging extra financial support to help first-time buyers onto the housing ladder – but more homeownership won’t fix a housing crisis caused by treating property as an asset. The party must be far bolder.
On this day in 1381, the lower classes of southern England began a titanic class struggle against the aristocracy – to demand justice for those who laboured and build a land where ‘everything be common.’
With the Welsh constituency once represented by Keir Hardie to be restored, we should honour the former Labour leader’s legacy in Merthyr Tydfil by continuing his struggle for socialism.
Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau has taken housing out of the hands of profiteers. In tomorrow’s election, she aims to prove that socialists can reject the market-led development of our cities – and win.
From supporting the criminalisation of peaceful protest and granting spycops immunity to its crackdown on dissent, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has revived New Labour’s contempt for civil liberties.
Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS union, talks to Tribune about their biggest industrial dispute in decades and why the government is playing with fire by demonising and undermining the civil service.
A new film powerfully explores the rich lives of Communists from across Ireland and their fight for a country free of sectarianism, poverty and all forms of injustice.
That the police have spent the past year cracking down on peaceful protestors while doing nothing to prevent discrimination scandals is proof that the force cares more about protecting the powerful than ending institutional racism.
The Thatcher government’s Section 28 made it illegal for public bodies to ‘promote homosexuality’ – a policy that continues to detrimentally impact the lives of LGBT+ people decades later.
Tackling inflation doesn’t mean we have to ‘accept being poorer’. We need to clamp down on the greedy few making higher profits than ever before.
Tackling inflation doesn’t mean we have to ‘accept being poorer’. We need to clamp down on the greedy few making higher profits than ever before.
Keir Starmer claims ‘difficult choices’ have forced him to abandon his progressive economic agenda – but it’s yet another sign that Labour plans to do little to threaten the establishment.
In memory of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, we republish Michael Foot’s tribute to ‘the incorrigible dissenter, the foremost sceptic and exponent of free thought throughout the last half-dozen decades.’
In 1972, ten thousand kids walked out of school in Britain to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.
The strikes against cuts to regional radio and newspapers are about more than just saving jobs – the fight to protect local journalism is a fight to defend democracy.
Amazon could be forced to recognise a trade union in Britain for the first time following a groundbreaking campaign at the company’s Coventry site – proof that organising can succeed even in the most hostile of environments.
We remember James Connolly’s contributions to revolutionary socialism and anti-colonialism.
On this day in 1943, the Bundist leader Szmul Zygielbojm committed suicide in London after learning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had been crushed – a final act of protest against the world’s indifference towards the mass murder of European Jews.