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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.
Staff at the DVLA’s Swansea centre have been out on strike after weak workplace safety led to an outbreak of more than 600 Covid-19 cases – and with the government taking a hard line, the dispute is set to continue.
Much of the media has framed the populist right as a backlash against neoliberalism – but they share common roots in the project to defend social hierarchies against the threat of equality.
In July 1972, British snipers in West Belfast shot five people dead in a spree that was quickly covered up by the British government – half a century later, their families have yet to see truth or justice.
Four years have passed since the Grenfell Tower fire killed 72 residents, but the handling of the pandemic proves that those in power have not changed – they still consider poor and marginalised people’s lives expendable.
At every stage from pregnancy, Finland’s welfare state is set up to support those who choose to have a family – and stands in contrast with marketised societies which make that choice increasingly impractical.
GB News, which launches today, will be Britain’s most openly reactionary broadcaster – but it is just one part of a much broader effort to drag our media rightwards, most notably by placing political pressure on the BBC.
The German-French duo Stereo Total, whose member Françoise Cactus died in February, made charming, cheap, and democratic music out of the wreckage of post-Wall Berlin.
The late Iraqi-Jewish architect Julian Sofaer, who died in 2017, designed a variety of public buildings across London through a humanist lens – which have left an indelible and modern mark on the city’s landscape.
GB News, which launches next week, portrays itself as an insurgent force in British media – but its funding reveals it to be just another attempt by right-wing millionaires to control public discourse.
On this day in 1987, Bernie Grant was elected as one of Britain’s first black MPs. He spent his career dedicated to the trade unionism and racial justice – and changed the political landscape of the country for good.
For decades, we’ve been sold the myth that capitalism gives working people more power over their lives – but in reality, it’s concentrated power into fewer and fewer hands.
The proposed UK-Australia trade deal could enshrine the right of corporations to sue our government – which would spell disaster for our public services, for our food standards, and for the environment.
As the power of private companies inside our NHS grows, so does the risk that research-baed data schemes like NHS Digital will be handed over to profiteers – jeopardising the privacy of patients across the country.
After more than four years of worker organising, Spain is the first EU country to legally recognise delivery riders as the employees of digital platforms – the next step is stamping out bogus self-employment entirely.
The Education Secretary’s weak Covid catch-up scheme is only the latest in a trail of disasters including the A-level fiasco and snubbing cheap broadband for kids – it’s no surprise 92% of teachers want him gone.
Right-wingers defend capitalism as a system necessitated by human nature, but the market emerged out of specific historic conditions – it isn’t hardwired into our species.
This week, Grace talks to environmental historian and professor of sociology Jason W. Moore about the relationship between capitalism and climate breakdown, and what Marx can teach us about our ecological crises.
Allen Clarke spent his life documenting the injustices faced by workers in Lancashire’s mills, and his writing is still beloved today – but because he wrote under a pen name, the man himself is at risk of being forgotten.
Last month, Talal Hangari was expelled from Cambridge University Labour Club over criticism of the IHRA definition of antisemitism – despite the definition’s own author defending him. Here, he tells his story to Tribune.
Dublin is sold as a modern city that is home to the world’s most dynamic industries – but for its residents, daily life is scarred by one of Europe’s worst housing crises and rampant workplace precarity.