End the Privatised Water Scam
Thames Water, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, is the poster child for failed privatisation. Labour's refusal to even consider public ownership for this vital utility puts ideology above reason.
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Making More Mick Lynches
Mick Lynch's time in the RMT leadership is a lesson for a Left often scared of itself: strength comes from building confidence in workers, confronting lying politicians, and showing no respect for the farce that is the 'media game'.
‘I’m Still Here’ Is a Story for Now
The success of 'I’m Still Here' at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.
Dave Proudlove: ‘Three Figures to Watch Fulham? Come on Lads’
A new book about grassroots football and its industrial past sheds light on neglected spaces of working-class experience. Tribune sat down with its author Dave Proudlove to talk gentrification, escapism, and the radical potential of the non-league game.
Neukölln Dreaming
Rejecting calls to tack right on immigration, Die Linke made impressive gains in last month’s German elections by cultivating a new form of radical politics that pushes working-class communities – and an ethic of ‘revolutionary kindness’ – to the fore.
Guns Before Butter
Running a government where starving children and freezing pensioners is the price to pay for funding endless wars, Keir Starmer's only legacy will be a more dangerous and unequal world.
From Melancholia to Power
With influences as wide as Freud and The Jam, Cynthia Cruz's ideas analyse neoliberalism's disappearing of the working class in everyday politics and cultural life — and how, in recognising that, class politics can be rebuilt.
Feeding the Flames
More than simply keeping picket lines going, providing food to workers in dispute is a form of collectivism that has shaped the trade union movement.
Cooking on the Breadline
Low pay and poor conditions in the British food industry leave thousands of those who feed us too poor to feed themselves — but some are pushing back and organising for better.
Misremembering the 80s
A new Tate Britain exhibition purports to display the photography of the 1980s. In its rooms, that decade has never felt longer.
Remembering Bik
The Irish revolutionary and singer Brendan 'Bik' McFarlane, who has died aged 74, was trusted by Bobby Sands, feared by Margaret Thatcher, and admired by thousands who became politicised through his songs and powerful performances.
‘The Empire was hidden in Belgium. It was called the Empire of Silence.’
Johan Grimonprez speaks about his innovative, Oscar-nominated documentary, which reveals disturbing truths about the political machinations behind the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.