Splitting Games
Ash Sarkar’s debut book Minority Rule ventures into the badlands of the contemporary culture wars to show how identity politics has come to obscure class struggle — and helped to dismantle left unity.
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Democratised Finance Is the Future
Financial institutions wield huge control over our day-to-day lives. We need to democratise that power.
Reds Deserve Better
The proposed demolition of Old Trafford to build a corporate theme park that could have been designed by Homer Simpson is another sad example of billionaires kidnapping football — and destroying something special about Manchester — in the name of profit.
Labour Must Pull in the Workers’ Direction
The Employment Rights Bill could see the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in a generation and improve millions of workers’ lives — the government can’t afford to bow to corporate lobbyists seeking to dilute it.
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.
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.