Against Vaccine Passports
Covid-19 vaccines are an astonishing medical breakthrough which offer hope for a life after lockdown – but giving the state the power to police their uptake would be a huge threat to civil liberties.
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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.
Britain’s Media Monopoly Is a Threat to Democracy
Britain’s media is owned by a tiny handful of corporations, with three companies controlling 90% of newspaper circulation – if we want a real democracy, it’s time to break the power of the media moguls.
Unconventional Comics
Long dismissed as child’s play, comics have carved out space for themselves as a form through which to examine the political – touching on everything from urban history to the fight against fascism.
Surviving While Excluded
During the past year, up to 3 million people have been left out of the government’s Covid-19 response schemes – they have faced the pandemic without any income support, and the consequences have often been dire.
The Signs that Make a City
The signs on the street are a measure of how much authorities care about their citizens – and from stylish fonts to neon lights, Britain has a lot to learn from European cities which have used signage to enliven the urban landscape.
A Letter from a Sacked British Gas Worker
Today, British Gas sacked hundreds of engineers who refused to sign contracts with vastly inferior terms and conditions – one of the sacked workers writes for Tribune about the strike, its lessons and the urgent need to outlaw ‘fire and rehire.’
32. Biden’s America: An Interview with Doug Henwood
This week, Grace speaks to Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street: How it Works and For Whom, about Biden’s stimulus package and what’s been going on in US stock markets – plus how workers can organise post-Covid.
Why We Need a Right to Food
The latest research suggests 100,000 families used foodbanks for the first time during lockdown – but there is an alternative to Britain’s deepening hunger crisis: a campaign to make the ‘Right to Food’ a legal reality.
The Market Can’t Be Tamed
In the post-war era, liberals abandoned the cause of a truly democratic economy in favour of trying to curbs the excesses of the market – and in the process, gave up any prospect of real social equality.
Inequality Is Bad for Your Health
As Britain emerges from lockdown, the government is projecting an image of optimism – but inequality was at crisis levels long before Covid-10 and poverty can be as bad for public health as any pandemic.
Capitalism’s Covid Recovery Will Deepen Social Inequality
Across the West, governments are plotting pandemic recoveries which will enrich asset-owners and squeeze workers – it’s time to build coalitions that can fight back against the next phase of capitalist inequality.
The Trawler and the Seagulls
‘Inhuman Resources,’ starring Eric Cantona, is an improbable thriller about a worker thrown on the scrapheap who becomes a heroic supervillain – a story which resonates with populist insurgencies of right and left.
How Blairism Failed the Working Class
Despite pursuing a number of redistributive policies, Blair’s Labour government left the fundamental architecture of Thatcher’s economy in place – and failed to break the cycle of deepening inequality.
When Hobsbawm Went Jazz
The British left of the 1950s eschewed modern jazz in favour of folk and trad – but Eric Hobsbawm bucked the trend, writing a secret music column about the radical potential of ‘jazz solidarity.’
Laws Unto Themselves
Recent governmental attempts to manipulate the courts have raised liberal concerns about the preservation of the political-legal divide – but it’s naïve to think that judges in Britain have ever been apolitical.
Be Nice to Service Workers Today
A recent survey of retail staff showed 9 in 10 faced abuse during Covid-19, often for attempting to ensure social distancing – as pubs and shops reopen, it’s time to treat the workers who run them with respect.
How the British Empire Built the Food System that Is Destroying the Planet
The British Empire created the first global capitalist market for food, thereby transforming huge swathes of the world – and leaving behind a legacy of environmental destruction that haunts a rapidly warming planet.
When Unions Spy for the State
Last month, Norman Tebbit revealed that senior figures in the old EETPU helped Thatcher’s government spy on trade unionists – it’s a cautionary tale about labour leaders who side with the state against their class.
Kurt Vonnegut’s Socialism From Outer Space
Writer Kurt Vonnegut, who died on this day in 2007, used science fiction to explore the failings that turned humans against each another – and came to view socialism as the alternative to a world of exploitation.
Covid-19 Proved that Homelessness Could Be Ended
In England’s first lockdown, 15,000 rough sleepers were given a place to sleep. The policy proved that homelessness could be ended – now it’s time to campaign for a statutory right to housing.