From Hockney to Dunbar: Bradford Future City
How does the Yorkshire city, once touted as the post-war 'city of the future', excavate its own creative history as part of its City of Culture 2025 celebrations?
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Dirigisme Just to Feel Something
Rachel Reeves threatened us with a good time by creating the notionally statist, pro-green National Wealth Fund. But its lack of funding, reliance on private capital and exclusion of the unions will stifle its success.
Communism’s Forgotten Radicals
A new book traces a group of forgotten militants whose disparate lives collided in 1920s Moscow, culminating in a queer love story against the backdrop of the nascent communist state.
Animating Tribune
A new collection of writings and cartoons by erstwhile Tribune columnist Martin Rowson showcases his extraordinary talent for skewering the 'craven, incompetent, cruel and callous clowns that lead us'.
No More Lost Futures
A new book making the case for internet-centric electronic musicians like SOPHIE, FKA Twigs and Oneohtrix Point Never is part of a growing wave of thinkers consigning the ‘lost futures’ discourse of the 2000s to the past.
Glasshouse Communism
In leafy Chingford, a workers’ co-operative has combined socialist principles with organic horticulture to create a long-lasting hub for community activism and productive labour.
The End of Illusions
Keir Starmer’s cuts to foreign aid represent a historic break with Labour tradition. But restoring international solidarity today needs new institutions of the exploited, not a revival of the dying professional aid industry.
Palestinian Prisoners: ‘There Will Be a Rebellion’
In Israel’s jails, Palestinian people — often held without trial — face murder, disease, sexual assault and some of the most extreme torture on earth. During the genocide in Gaza, these human rights abuses have reached an all-time high, a prisoners’ organisation leader says.
The Wrong Crusade
The Labour government is waging a moral crusade in reverse by embarking on the biggest attack on welfare in a generation. It should tax high earners and multinationals instead.
The Left’s Cafeteria
For decades, The Gay Hussar was the Labour Left’s integral Soho spot for organising, gossip, and goulash.
The People of Turkey Against the ‘Palace Regime’
As Turkey’s far-right government attempts to stifle democratic opposition yet again, massive protests have erupted across the country – showing that a new generation will not accept Erdoğan’s authoritarian rule.
Cut Up: The Radical Collage of Linder Sterling
A new exhibition places Manchester artist Linder Sterling not just in the post-punk scene of her home city but in a wider history of female Surrealist art.