Radical Gaming

A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

We Need a Liveable Wage

One in six UK jobs paid below the real Living Wage in 2024 — 800,000 more than the previous year. The workers who keep society running shouldn’t be fighting to make ends meet.

The Anti-Anti-Apartheid Movement

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.

From Hockney to Dunbar: Bradford Future City

How does the Yorkshire city, once touted as the post-war ‘city of the future’, excavate its own creative history as part of its City of Culture 2025 celebrations?

Dirigisme Just to Feel Something

Rachel Reeves threatened us with a good time by creating the notionally statist, pro-green National Wealth Fund. But its lack of funding, reliance on private capital and exclusion of the unions will stifle its success.

Communism’s Forgotten Radicals

A new book traces a group of forgotten militants whose disparate lives collided in 1920s Moscow, culminating in a queer love story against the backdrop of the nascent communist state.

Animating Tribune

A new collection of writings and cartoons by erstwhile Tribune columnist Martin Rowson showcases his extraordinary talent for skewering the ‘craven, incompetent, cruel and callous clowns that lead us’.

No More Lost Futures

A new book making the case for internet-centric electronic musicians like SOPHIE, FKA Twigs and Oneohtrix Point Never is part of a growing wave of thinkers consigning the ‘lost futures’ discourse of the 2000s to the past.

Glasshouse Communism

In leafy Chingford, a workers’ co-operative has combined socialist principles with organic horticulture to create a long-lasting hub for community activism and productive labour.

The End of Illusions

Keir Starmer’s cuts to foreign aid represent a historic break with Labour tradition. But restoring international solidarity today needs new institutions of the exploited, not a revival of the dying professional aid industry.

Palestinian Prisoners: ‘There Will Be a Rebellion’

In Israel’s jails, Palestinian people — often held without trial — face murder, disease, sexual assault and some of the most extreme torture on earth. During the genocide in Gaza, these human rights abuses have reached an all-time high, a prisoners’ organisation leader says.

The Wrong Crusade

The Labour government is waging a moral crusade in reverse by embarking on the biggest attack on welfare in a generation. It should tax high earners and multinationals instead.

The Left’s Cafeteria

For decades, The Gay Hussar was the Labour Left’s integral Soho spot for organising, gossip, and goulash.

The People of Turkey Against the ‘Palace Regime’

As Turkey’s far-right government attempts to stifle democratic opposition yet again, massive protests have erupted across the country – showing that a new generation will not accept Erdoğan’s authoritarian rule.

Cut Up: The Radical Collage of Linder Sterling

A new exhibition places Manchester artist Linder Sterling not just in the post-punk scene of her home city but in a wider history of female Surrealist art.

Don’t Buy Apartheid

A new national campaign is channelling the anger felt by millions towards Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza into a mass boycott of Israeli goods — and companies like Coca-Cola that prop up apartheid.

Palestine vs. FIFA

Palestinian football has been at a standstill since October 2023, and now campaigners are demanding that FIFA sanctions Israel’s FA. Does the organisation’s failure to do so make a mockery of its own statutes?

Imagining the Progressive Restaurant

In a country where so many people live increasingly lonely, bland, and digitised lives, food institutions can — and should — be bodies that place communal enjoyment before the whims of consumerism.

Splitting Games

Ash Sarkar’s debut book Minority Rule ventures into the badlands of the contemporary culture wars to show how identity politics has come to obscure class struggle — and helped to dismantle left unity.

Alex Niven Announced as Tribune’s New Editor