States Can Take On The Corporate Elite – If They Want To
The G7’s agreement to set a 15% global minimum corporate tax rate shows that states can act to rein in the power of the world’s wealthy – if politicians aren’t beholden to their interests.
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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.
Rooftop Pools for Everyone
The existence of the Nine Elms sky pool isn’t only evidence of the absurd luxuries of the rich – it proves that we could all have communal luxury, if our political class thought it worthwhile.
Open Letter: Stop the Repression of Palestine Solidarity in British Schools
In an open letter, a group of human rights organisations express their concern about the growing effort to silence pupils’ expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian cause in schools across the country.
There’s No Place for Arms Companies in LGBT+ Liberation
For many years, the arms industry has cynically exploited Pride as an opportunity to sanitise its image – but profiting from death and destruction has nothing to do with liberation.
Partisans on the Pitch
In 20th century Yugoslavia, football played a decisive role in politics – arising from the workers’ movement, recruiting for the struggle against fascism and even helping to build a socialist state.
The Tories’ School Catch-Up Plan Will Leave Poor Kids Further Behind
The Tories have approved school catch-up funding of as little as £50 per pupil per year, compared to £1,600 in the US and £2,500 in Holland – just the latest policy which will punish poorer kids the most.
Behind the Sky Pool
Images of Nine Elms’ sky pool provoked controversy last week, but behind the glass lies a story of Britain’s political elite conspiring with super-rich developers – and the communities that suffer as a result.
Capital’s Latest Trick
Workers are facing an attack on pay and conditions, backed by the threat of the sack. Trade union action is our best hope to bring the assault to an end.
Unbreak Our Hearts
A new history of depression poses the question of where politics ends and illness begins.
Northumbrian Psycho
Eliza Clark’s shlock horror novel Boy Parts is an unreliably-narrated account of violence and ambition, which doubles as a portrait of national dysfunction.
Why Young People Need to Organise
From work to housing and public services, the emerging generation is screwed by today’s economy — and the only answer is to organise collectively to fight for better.
How Labour Lost its Purpose
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party doesn’t seem to know what it’s doing. More worryingly, it doesn’t seem to know why.
The Free Press Fantasy
We often hear that the media’s job is to hold power to account — but in reality, its function is to project the views of the powerful across society.
Remembering Stan Newens
Veteran Labour Left MP and Tribunite Stan Newens passed away earlier this year aged 91. We remember his contributions to socialism.
Some Very British Violence
The scenes at Clapham Common earlier this year prompted shocked realisations about police brutality — but state violence is a defining feature of our isolated, individualised world.
I Know Bono and He Knows Ono and She Knows Eno
A 25th anniversary edition of Brian Eno’s 1995 diaries show just how much has changed since that time, the author included.
Toxic Kitchens: How Workers Are Fighting for Better Amid Reopening
As hospitality reopens across Britain, many workers are facing abysmal conditions amid staff shortages – but now they’re fighting back by joining trade unions.
Failing the Miners Again
Channel 5’s new documentary about the 1984 Miners’ Strike paints Thatcher as a hero and covers up her government’s real intentions – it is just the latest establishment attack on the miners who fought back.
Poverty Is a Policy Choice
14.5 million people in Britain live in poverty, exposing the vast holes in our social safety net – this isn’t an accident, it’s the result of a welfare system which denies people the means to live a dignified life.
‘Women Are the Key to Worker Power’: Roz Foyer on Rebuilding the Union Movement
Roz Foyer, the first woman General Secretary of the Scottish TUC, speaks to Tribune about women’s role in the labour movement, the fight over the future of Scotland – and the alternative to decades of neoliberalism.