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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.

How Covid-19 Is Changing the Workplace

With many forced to work from home since Covid-19, companies have increasingly used the opportunity to implement surveillance technologies and attack conditions – but workers have also found ways to fight back.

The Mirage of Progressive Scotland

With the Tories in power for a decade, English liberals have increasingly projected their aspirations onto ‘progressive’ Scotland – but from economic policy to Covid-19, its government is not a model to follow.

To Tackle Obesity, Fight Inequality

By shifting the blame for obesity onto individuals, the government is covering up its own contributions to the structural causes – from shutting leisure centres to supporting low wages and longer working hours.

Murdoch’s Long Shadow

Rupert Murdoch’s regular – and private – meetings with Boris Johnson show how much influence the media baron still exerts over British politics – and why his power needs to be challenged.

Builders Crack

A recently rediscovered movie premiering this week tells the story of ‘Builders Crack,’ a radical workers’ magazine which helped organise building sites in the 1990s against gangster bosses.

Bringing the Culture War to Campus

Unwilling to take on the economic elite which is to blame for growing inequality, the Tory government has decided to turn the public’s attention to a war against different enemy – students and universities.

Introducing ‘The Cause’

Today we have launched ‘The Cause,’ a new weekly bulletin from Tribune covering the labour movement and socialist politics. Read the first instalment here.

The Demise of Radical Keynesianism

The work of John Maynard Keynes and his followers reached many radical conclusions – but their unwillingness to break with the idea of a ‘natural’ market undermined the effort to bring them into being.

Bolivia’s Ongoing Coup

Faced with a victory for Evo Morales’ MAS party, the Bolivian government has postponed elections once again – the latest attack on democracy by a coup regime which Western powers supported in its name.

Remembering Andrew Mlangeni

Ronnie Kasrils remembers his comrade Andrew Mlangeni, giant of the South African struggle against apartheid who spent 26 years in the cell beside Nelson Mandela at Robben Island.

How Cuba Survived

For decades, commentators predicted that Cuba’s socialist model couldn’t survive without the USSR or Fidel Castro. They were wrong – and even in the face of continued sanctions, its unique system endures.