Socialist Campaign Group secretary Richard Burgon speaks to Tribune about the fallout from the coronavirus crisis, the leaked Labour report – and the need to prevent a new Cold War in the international arena.
If Labour is to reconnect with working-class communities in its heartland areas, it will need to empower local members to organise on the ground – and the time to start that process is now, argues Ian Lavery.
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing many of Britain's court hearings online – leading to fears that years of cutbacks could become institutionalised in a new normal: remote justice.
The coronavirus crisis has created huge demand for PPE – but in the world's biggest glove manufacturer, Top Glove, profits for shareholders are skyrocketing while migrant workers are paid poverty wages in unsafe conditions.
Britain's right-wing press is stirring up a hate campaign against trade unions, politicians and local government authorities it fears will oppose an early lockdown exit. It has a name for them: the Blob.
The staggering exodus of capital from the Global South is pushing developing economies to the brink of default – making it increasingly likely that the greatest cost for the coronavirus crisis will be paid by the world's poorest.
The Home Office's new rules for touring musicians inflict a harsh regime on musical workers, and try to put borders around sound. It won't work.
In recent years, Labour has looked like a party that understood the depth of Britain's housing crisis. But its latest policy suggests that period is over – and renters are on their own again.
Labour's new housing policy would leave renters with an unsustainable mountain of debt on top of already unsustainable rents – it's not good enough, and the party must support full cancellation.
Greece's partisans had fought on Britain's side against the Nazis, liberating much of their country. But for Winston Churchill they were too left-wing – and had to be destroyed.
Seventy-five years ago today, as the end of war was celebrated in Europe, French colonial forces began a brutal repression against the nationalist movement in Algeria which would result in the deaths of tens of thousands.
'The enemy who has now been overthrown was the particular and special enemy of working-class institutions, ideas and hopes.' To mark VE Day, we republish Aneurin Bevan's Tribune editorial on the end of the Second World War.