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Raven Hart

Raven Hart is co-founder of the Bristol Cooperative Alliance, an organisation that aims to promote a decentralised economy that empowers local communities and facilitates democratic self-determination.

Airbrushing the Ghettoes

From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.

Blondeness as a Form of Sacrifice

A timely new book by the cultural critic Philippa Snow observes how the female celebrity magnifies the experiences of her everyday civilian counterparts, using examples from Pamela Anderson to Amy Winehouse.

Adam Curtis Plays the Hits

The longstanding BBC documentary maker fixes his gaze on Britain at the end of the last millennium — with a new focus on the workers who faced the consequences of his grand themes of monetarism and individualism. But is this a tale he’s told before?

The People’s Bank Robber

Anarchist bricklayer Lucio Urtubia robbed banks to fund revolutionaries in Franco’s Spain, defrauding Citibank and getting away with it. Surely this is a story we’ve all been waiting for?

Saltire Situationism

The high modernism of Glasgow novelist Alexander Trocchi has often been overshadowed by his low living. As we mark the centenary of his birth, can we discern a meaning-ful literary legacy beyond his associations with existentialism, Situationism, and counterculture?

Dreaming Red Plenty

Throughout history, too many left figureheads have presented socialism as something austere and defensive. To defeat an insurgent far-right with no qualms about harnessing affect, we must embrace the utopian joy behind the socialist project.

After Retromania

In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the 2020s — with fellow music journalist Liam Inscoe-Jones.

Recovering the Local State

Communities across Britain have been laid waste by decades of austerity and state cutback. As the Right claims to offer answers to the decline it initiated, can the Left develop a rival form of radical localism?

Reversing the Decline of Union Power

Neoliberalism and postmodernism have torn apart the social fabric that once held us together. But in rebuilding the strength of labour and the organised society, we can be unified, empowered, and dignified once again.

Politics of the Pissoir

One of the clearest markers of Britain’s civic downslide in recent decades is the slow cancellation of its once plentiful provision of public toilets. But in Asian countries like Japan and Taiwan, another loo is possible.

The Decline Rollercoaster

In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of nationhood arise amid the ruins of Britain’s broken infrastructure?

Kid Starver and the Dadcore State

The Starmer years look set to be defined by the dour, authoritarian persona of the Prime Minister himself – a sort of nightmarish latter-day successor to ‘nanny to the nation’ Margaret Thatcher’, Margaret Thatcher. This, we might say, is dadcore.

The Fall of the House of Commons

The architectural decay of Westminster offers a convenient metaphor for Britain’s crumbling democratic systems. Under a government elected via the lowest electoral mandate in history, the outlook for reform is bleak.

The Great Living Squeeze

A sense of malaise among younger generations is backed up by hard economic statistics speaking of a drastic decline in living standards. How can we overhaul the individualist non-society responsible for this climate of despair?

Jeremy Corbyn: Nuclear Disarmament Now

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, Jeremy Corbyn continues the call for nuclear disarmament and world peace in a speech at the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. We publish his remarks, edited for length and clarity, here.

The Church’s Suffering in Gaza

As Israel continues its genocidal rampage, including the recent bombing of a church in Gaza City, the late Pope Francis’s legacy on Palestine stands in ever starker contrast to the Christians of the British cabinet.

Reclaiming the People’s War

Though it has recently become a byword for reactionary nostalgia, the Second World War was in certain crucial ways an extension of the ‘Red Decade’ of the 1930s. A modern anti-fascist Left must reclaim this inheritance — and avoid its shortcomings.