Can We Imagine a Socialist Spotify?
Streaming services are hastening music’s subservience to advertising and ripping off musicians — but they could serve more utopian purposes.
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Documenting Dignity
The latest film by Agnes Varda is a warm reflection on her cinematic history, and a reminder that those on the margins of society are often most worthy of the camera’s gaze.
Looking Back on the World Revolution
Starting a bi-monthly books column, Owen Hatherley looks at a stack of new memoirs and collections on revolutionary ‘Third Worldism’, from 1920s China to 1980s Burkina Faso.
There Is an Alternative
An edited extract from the newly-published anthology of socialist writer Mark Fisher (1968–2017).
Organising TGIs
There’s no future for trade unions without young workers, and recent campaigns in the hospitality sector show that they can be organised.
Striking Back
Precarity, lack of representation, and injuries have had devastating impacts on the lives of non-league footballers. Now, with the help of the GMB, they’re starting to unionise.
The Self-Serving Myths of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley’s innovations are not going to save the world — despite what its prophets predict.
An NHS for People and Planet
It’s time to design an NHS fit for the twenty-first century — public, universal, free, and fighting climate change.
Ernst Toller: In Memoriam
As a socialist playwright, revolutionary president, and exile from the Nazis, Ernst Toller’s life and work demonstrated the importance of conviction in creativity.
A Letter from Warsaw
In Poland’s bleak post-Communist politics, the nationalists are increasingly defeating the neoliberals by identifying themselves with popular interests.
As I Please: Year in Review
Tribune Editor-at-large Chris McLaughlin takes stock of 2018 and looks to the challenges of the year ahead.
The Tories’ Industrial Failure
Ideological opposition to state aid has seen big promises on industrial policy dissipate into more job losses and deindustrialisation.