Ofgem Is a Scam
Despite claiming to be a ‘regulator’, Ofgem’s main job is to protect the profits of private energy companies – even when their prices are driving millions of working-class people towards poverty.
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88. Chaos in the Tory Party w/ Phil Burton-Cartledge
This week, Grace speaks to Phil Burton-Cartledge about why there’s a dearth of Tory talent, and whether Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have any answers to long-term issues facing both the country and the Conservative Party itself.
Ban Private Jets
Last week’s report into celebrity jet use made clear just how casually the rich spew carbon into the atmosphere. We should get their private planes out of the skies for good.
Four Lads That Shook the Wirral
Beyond the one-liners, Half Man Half Biscuit are a true folk group, their songs centring on the frustrations and fatalism of working class experience.
Starmer’s Self-Destructive War on Trade Unions
As workers across the country fight for pay rises, Keir Starmer could have highlighted the failure of the Tories to tackle the cost of living crisis – instead, he started a massive public spat with the trade union movement.
Green Capitalism Is a Myth
As the climate crisis deepens, arguments for market solutions are still growing – but the truth is that capitalism is fundamentally incapable of overseeing the radical shift we need.
Energy Companies Are Profiting from Your Misery
Today BP announced its profits had tripled in the past year, at exactly the same time as energy bills are driving millions into poverty – it’s time to take on the profiteers who are holding the public to ransom.
Monkeypox Shows Global Health Solidarity Is Still a Myth
After the failures of the Covid pandemic, the world’s richest countries pledged greater cooperation on global health policies – but the monkeypox outbreak is already exposing those commitments as little more than words.
Labour’s Young Members Need a Socialist Future
Young people in Britain are coming of age in an era of huge crises that neoliberalism has proved itself incapable of solving. In the elections for Young Labour and Labour Students, we can build a movement for something different.
Whichever Tory Wins, the Planet Burns
Britain just marked its hottest day on record, but the candidates to be our next prime minister are dodging the topic of climate change almost altogether – and the media is happy to let them get away with it.
Remembering the Great Strike of 1842
The Great Strike of 1842 began when hundreds of thousands of workers walked out calling for higher pay, a shorter day, and democratic reform – demands that remain just as relevant today.
Germany’s Collective Alternative to the Private Housing Swindle
In cities across Germany, the Mietshäuser Syndikat is helping working-class people to set up collective housing projects – and taking homes out of the hands of profiteers for good.
Labour Must Fight for Trans Liberation
The election of a Trans Officer to National Labour Students Committee is an opportunity for Labour to finally take a clear line – and say that the struggle for trans liberation is a matter for every progressive.
Empty Words Are not Enough – It’s Time Nurses Got a Pay Rise
Nurses were clapped and called ‘heroes’ during Covid, only to be slapped with a real-terms pay cut by the government. Now they are fighting back – and many are prepared to take to the picket lines.
The Tory Leadership Election Is a Race to Suppress Wages
The media is talking up differences between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak over tax cuts, but the Tory leadership candidates are united on the main policy response to the cost-of-living crisis: suppressing workers’ wages.
BT Workers Are Fighting the Rigged Economy
Today’s BT Openreach strike is the first national telecoms strike in decades and the first national call centre strike in Britain’s history – it pits 40,000 underpaid workers against one of the most profitable corporations in the country.
Second City Games
Ten years after London 2012, the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham are another opportunity to examine the role of sporting mega-events in urban change – and see if we’ve learned anything from last time.
The Return of the Scrounger Myth
Tentative attempts by Tories to resurrect the ‘scrounger’ myth to push an even harsher welfare system prove how comfortably they slip back into austerity logic – and how completely at odds they are with the reality of today’s economy.
Liz Truss’s War on Workers
Britain’s anti-union laws are already the harshest in the developed world. Liz Truss’s plan to make them even more draconian should be recognised for what it is – an attack on the basic democratic rights of working people.
Mick Lynch: ‘It’s No Good Being Pissed Off – We Need Organisation’
Tribune sits down with the RMT’s Mick Lynch to discuss the national rail strike, his viral television appearances – and how workers can come together to topple Britain’s super-rich elite.