Let’s Not Cancel Tolstoy
Not for the first time, Russian imperialism is casting a shadow over the country’s literature. But the last work of Leo Tolstoy, Hadji Murad, provided both a mirror and an indictment.
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Rae Deer is an economist and freelance writer.
The War Against Noise
Despite doomed patrician attempts to shut it out, noise can never entirely be avoided — and a level of ‘social noise’ is part of convivial life.
A Letter from Los Angeles
Immediately after World War Two and just before McCarthyism, ten Communists commissioned a modernist, racially integrated housing co-operative in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of L.A.
Tribune’s Alternative to the Cold War
During the tumultuous years after the end of World War Two, Tribune’s editorial team advocated an alternative to both American and Soviet domination: a democratic socialist ‘third force’.
The Ministry of Nurseries
Britain’s childcare system is appallingly expensive, complicated, and neglected – but for a time in the Second World War, public nurseries were considered part of the new welfare state.
To Infinity and Beyond
A new film depicts the story of a Soviet architectural ‘UFO’ in Kyiv, which still stands as both a resistance to Stalinist philistinism and wild capitalism.
Coming Up For Air
A new speculative fiction about a revolutionary near future takes the form of an oral history project with inhabitants of the New York Commune, and imagines how abolitionist theories might play out in practice.
‘I Was So Dissatisfied When Pulp Got Famous — It Didn’t Cause a Revolution’
Owen Hatherley interviews Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker about his upbringing, his politics — and what he kept that others might have thrown away.
A Workers’ Hero: Avtar Singh Jouhl
Avtar Singh Jouhl, the former president of the Indian Workers’ Association, passed away in October. He was a committed anti-racist and trade unionist, inviting Malcolm X to Britain and sending coaches of IWA members to support the miners’ strike in 1984.
Behind the South Liverpool Tribune Reading Group
In L8, the South Liverpool Tribune Reading Group is organising political education to help a diverse working-class community fight decades of government neglect.
East London for the People
The divide between rich and poor in the London borough of Newham illustrates the grotesque inequalities of the city – but long-neglected residents are organising against corporate takeover.
The Trickle-Down Ruse
For decades, politicians justified funnelling money to the rich by arguing it produces more wealth for everyone else. The evidence is now overwhelming – we were scammed.
Zarah Sultana: ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’
With the country in crisis, the Tories have adopted the extremist language of the far-right to scapegoat asylum seekers for their own failures — and we can’t let them succeed.
Why University Staff Are Striking
A university worker speaks to Tribune about the assault on higher education – and about why students and staff must stand together to build a university system that works for all.
Don’t Let Them Kill Royal Mail
Bosses at Royal Mail are attacking the terms and conditions of its workforce and plotting to ‘Uberise’ the postal service. Against these plans, the posties’ strike is a battle for the future of the economy as whole.
Tax the Rich
Austerity isn’t sensible, it’s social vandalism. The alternative is to squeeze those who can afford it.
Decent Homes for All
Inequality is about power: who has it, and in whose interests it is used.
End Food Poverty
In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, millions of kids are going hungry. It is a national disgrace.
Slash Energy Bills
There are solutions to spiralling heating costs and cold homes — but the ruling class prefers to profit from our misery.
A Real Pay Rise
The RMT’s Eddie Dempsey on why the cost-of-living crisis must be tackled through the paypacket.