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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.
Scottish Labour declined because it failed to use its position to tackle the country’s deep inequalities. Its path back runs through learning those lessons – not hardline positions on independence, argues Matt Kerr.
In music, lockdown has meant not only the collapse of live music, but also the massively increased monopolisation of music by the tech giants. We need to defend the alternatives.
It’s time for working people across Britain to come together to support movements for social justice, challenge racial and class inequalities – and fight back against the ruling elite that fosters them.
A basic income would be useful during a pandemic, but in the long term it would deepen the power of the market – instead, it’s time to fight to limit the influence of the market over the services we all rely on.
This weekend marks 40 years since the assassination of Guyanese Marxist Walter Rodney. We republish his final essay on the struggle for democracy in his native land.
After the coronavirus crisis, the state will likely play a much larger role in the economy. But its interventions will serve the interests of the wealthy – unless the Left gets organised, argues Richard Burgon.
From deregulation and corporate profiteering to fire safety cuts, the Grenfell fire three years ago today revealed the contempt modern capitalism has for ordinary people’s lives.
Laleh Khalili’s new book looks at the importance of shipping in the Arab peninsula for global capitalism – from distributing the world’s oil to handling the world’s freight, via some of the world’s most exploited workers.
Priti Patel’s plans to fast-track cases against Black Lives Matter protestors will deepen racial injustices in Britain’s courts – but Keir Starmer’s record during the London riots implicates Labour just as much.
Three years after the fire at Grenfell, Kensington and Chelsea Council continues to fail its victims – with demands for housing, services and support met instead with a cynical public relations exercise.
Contrary to Boris Johnson’s claims that it does not edit or censor the past, the British state has sought at every turn to conceal the truth about the empire – including destroying vast records of its crimes.
A colour bar introduced by Winston Churchill prevented Manchester boxer Len Johnson from becoming a champion – now a new campaign wants to recognise him with a statue in the city.
Tory MPs are demanding that we desecrate Marx’s grave – but Marx was a consistent campaigner against slavery, and supported the efforts of British workers who organised to fight it.
While school closures are necessary during a pandemic, they leave poorer students behind – it’s time for the government to bridge the digital divide and ensure that every child can participate in remote learning.
Ilhan Omar is a target for America’s right-wing media – but the success of her new book confirms her status as a leading light of the emerging US Left, and one who will be around for some time.
Más País leader and Spanish MP Íñigo Errejón talks to Tribune about left-wing politics after Bernie and Corbyn, the Covid-19 crisis – and how the rich use politics to divorce themselves from social responsibility.
Stock markets across the world are rallying as lockdowns lift and central banks pump money into the economy – but it’s likely to be a calm before the storm.
Two months on from the leaked Labour report and its revelations of racism, no-one has been suspended – even pending investigation. For BAME Labour members, kneeling is not enough.
Now is the time for the labour movement to lay down the gauntlet to the political class with a clear set of economic and social demands that can respond to this historic crisis, argues Howard Beckett.
Post-independence Ireland saw a wave of monuments to the British empire being removed, but none more dramatically than Nelson’s Pillar in Dublin – blown up on the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.