Inequality Is Tory Party Policy
Rishi Sunak’s Budget is an attempt at masking modern Britain’s bleak reality – that while most people are getting stretched further and further, the rich are making money like never before.
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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.
A Budget With No Answers
From the environment to the soaring cost of living, we live in a time of crisis – and today’s Budget shows that Rishi Sunak has none of the answers we need.
A Welfare State for the Wealthy
Today’s Budget promised both additional spending and a shrinking of the state. These might seem contradictory – but they are part of the same plan: to funnel yet more wealth to Britain’s elite.
The Radical Conservation of Red Bologna
In the 1960s and 70s, the Italian city of Bologna’s Communist administration took a radical approach to conservation – opening up the process of shaping the city’s historic centre to grassroots democratic planning.
The Fight for a Workers’ Hollywood
Even before the recent tragic on-set death, film and TV workers were organising to improve conditions in Hollywood – their fight pits them against not only film studios, but global tech giants.
Tax Rises for Workers, Tax Cuts for Bankers
Rishi Sunak is planning to cut the surcharge tax on bank profits by 60% while ploughing ahead with raising National Insurance for workers – further proof of who this government really serves: the super-rich.
Why Workers Need a Real Pay Rise
Rishi Sunak has announced plans to end the public sector pay freeze – but after years of stagnation, token measures won’t do: pay must rise above inflation.
Energy Belongs in Public Hands
Domestic energy bills are expected to rise 30% next year. This crisis is rooted in a system run for huge private profits – and can only be solved by taking energy into public hands.
Remembering The Jarrow Crusade
In October 1936, 200 men marched from Jarrow to London to demand an end to unemployment and poverty. Their efforts were unsuccessful – but their fight against injustice remains as relevant as ever.
£9.50 Is Not Enough – It’s Time for a £15 Minimum Wage
The government’s proposed £9.50 minimum wage won’t lift low-paid workers out of crisis, nor will Labour’s £10 alternative – it’s time to chart a course towards a liveable minimum wage of £15.
Why Raising Council Tax Won’t Fix Local Government
A decade of austerity has decimated local authority funding and left many councils in crisis – but hiking regressive council tax isn’t a real solution.
The Media’s Love Affair with New Labour
The BBC’s documentary on Blair and Brown is the latest attempt to paint New Labour as a romantic tragedy, rather than what it actually was – a historic missed opportunity.
If COP Wants to Save the Planet, It Has to Challenge Capitalism
Next week sees the start of Glasgow’s COP26. It could be an opportunity to tackle capitalism’s destruction of the planet – if world leaders choose to take it.
The Film the Nazis Tried to Destroy
‘Europa’, a 1931 film by Polish radicals Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, was long believed destroyed by the Nazis – but its rediscovery offers an eerie glimpse into a world spinning towards war and destruction.
How Finland’s Public Childcare System Puts Britain to Shame
In Finland, 70% of pre-school children attend a full day care service. It is public, subsidised and free for families with lower incomes – showing that Britain’s expensive childcare mess is a political choice.
Faith in the Factories
In 1940s and 50s, the French ‘worker priest’ movement took priests out of churches and into the ranks of the working class – their experience is a reminder of religion’s radical possibilities.
‘HGV Drivers Have Been Disrespected for Years – Now, We’re Fighting Back’
A HGV driver writes for Tribune about the dismal conditions and low pay which have defined the sector for years – and why workers see this latest crisis as a chance to change it for good.
The Brutal Reality of Europe’s Border Regime
This year, more than 2,000 people have died trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands from Africa – a reminder of the lethal reality of the European Union’s border regime.
The British State’s Secret War on Black Power
In the 1960s, a new generation of Black radicals in Britain began organising against racism, capitalism and police violence – they were met with state hostility and a campaign of surveillance.
Jeremy Corbyn: Socialists Are Rebuilding Bolivia
In 2019, a right-wing coup deposed Bolivia’s elected government. But the people fought back – and now the socialist government they elected in its place is more popular than ever.