Property Will Eat Itself
The transformation of industrial spaces into clubs and then into flats in cities like Manchester has created a strange ouroboros of self-consuming development.
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Rae Hart
Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
Make Do and Mend
However you read the statistics, the climate crisis has to mean less building. What does a future of living in old buildings hold for the future of architecture?
One Man’s Trash
In the dark days of John Major’s Britain, Channel 4’s Eurotrash took aim at Britain’s relationship with ‘the continent’ and created a low-art surrealist classic in the process.
We Have Never Been Postmodern
Stuart Jeffries’ new book charts a lively history of postmodernism from the 1970s to the millennium through a discussion of pivotal artworks, pop cultural figures, cultural theorists and political events. But are we really still living in ‘postmodern’ times?
History from Below Is Where You Find It
Ignore the sepia filter — Call the Midwife, which returns in 2023, has long been one of the most radical programmes on British television.
Defining Modernist Architecture
The roots of modernist architecture are explicitly reformist and socialist – yet it continues to defy contemporary characterisation as either an elite conspiracy or a monument to unfulfilled utopia, writes Owen Hatherley.
A Letter from Dimitrovgrad
The post-war New Town in Bulgaria has just celebrated its 75th birthday. Its combination of Stalinist aesthetics and post-socialist kitsch is all that the country’s elites find shameful, but there is still life in this ‘city of the future’.
In Search of a New North
Alex Niven speaks to Tribune about his new book The North Will Rise Again – an attempt to revive a future for the North from its modernist, radical traditions.
How Workers Won the Weekend
The weekend wasn’t handed to us on a platter – it was fought for tooth and nail by the working-class.
‘They Can’t Keep Us Quiet Anymore’: Amazon Workers Strike Back
This week, Amazon workers in Coventry have embarked on a second wave of historic strike action. Picket lines are bigger, workers are louder – and resolve is stronger than ever.
From the Pits to the Pigeon Lofts
Pigeon racing was once understood as a pastime of the elite, but in the twentieth century it established firm roots in Britain’s mining communities – and the bird became known as ‘the poor man’s racehorse’.
Football Belongs to the Fans
The looming Qatari takeover of Manchester United underlines how football clubs are now the playthings of oligarchs and repressive regimes. It’s time to reclaim the game and fight for fan ownership.
Turkey’s Earthquake Disaster Is a Story of Corporate Greed
The earthquake that struck Turkey last month was a natural disaster, but the staggering death toll is the result of political decisions to allow construction firms to dodge building safety regulations in pursuit of profit.
Trade Unions Can Beat the Far-Right
The failure of politicians to address the cost of living crisis has created the conditions for a resurgence of the far-right – and we need a strong trade union movement to defeat them.
Remembering Trinidad and Tobago’s Black Power Revolution
On this day in 1970, activists took to the streets of Trinidad and Tobago to protest the colonial systems and racist hierarchies that had survived independence – a brief moment where Black Power had the potential to topple a government.
Democracy Is Under Attack
We need the Labour Party to stand up against government attacks on our rights to strike, protest and vote — but it can’t defend democracy if it doesn’t respect it within its own movement, writes Jeremy Corbyn.
The Deadly War on Trans People Must End
In the wake of the killing of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, it’s time our political leaders found a backbone and stood against the attacks being waged on young trans people across the country.
Keir Starmer’s Sticking Plaster Politics
Amid the worst squeeze on living standards in decades, Keir Starmer’s Labour has a historic opportunity to transform this country – but yesterday’s speech shows he’s more concerned with staying in the establishment’s good books.
Radical Domesticity
Despite the machismo that has beset the Left, solidarity and organising, from the Miners’ Strike to the Troubles, has often centred on the home.
It’s Time for the Four-Day Week
The biggest-ever pilot of the four-day week proves that cutting working hours with no loss of pay makes us happier, healthier and more productive. Now it’s time for the trade union movement to fight for a shorter working week for all.