Modernism for the Many
In the 1960s, Kate Macintosh designed modernist public housing for the elderly. Her buildings are monuments to what architecture can achieve when liberated from the constraints of the property market.
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Bill Clinton Versus Organised Labour
Bill Clinton's neoliberal agenda deliberately gutted social security and facilitated the offshoring of manufacturing — a calculated betrayal of organised labour from which America's working class has never recovered.
Britain Feared the Paris Commune
Some of the cultural responses to the Paris Commune of 1871 — demonising revolutionaries and justifying soldiers' atrocities — demonstrate just how deeply elements of British reactionism run.
How New Labour Abandoned Workers
New Labour's neoliberal method of modernisation wasn't the only path the party could have taken at the end of the twentieth century — it chose to turn its back on the working class.
Ten Times Workers Won in 2023
As 2023 draws to a close, Tribune looks back at ten landmark trade union victories — showing how organised workers are fighting back against greed and exploitation.
The RSA: Putting the ‘Art’ in Apartheid
Last week, the Royal Society of Arts hosted a pro-Israel fundraiser while the country bombed Gaza — and now it's cracking down on support for Palestine, writes an anonymous staff member.
It’s Time to Take Back Housing
The Right to Buy turned a public good into private profit and birthed the housing crisis. But cities around the world are showing how to reverse this disaster by taking homes out of the hands of profiteers and returning them to public ownership.
Low Pay Keeps the Doctors Away
50,000 junior doctors are on strike today over a 26% cut to their real pay since 2008. This is a fight for the future of the NHS — a fight they won't back down from anytime soon.
Health Workers Shut Down Gaza War Profiteer
Hundreds of health workers have shut down the London HQ of Palantir in protest at the awarding of NHS contracts to a company complicit in Israel's 'ongoing genocide in Gaza'.
The Covid Inquiry Has Already Failed Us
True justice for the victims of the pandemic won’t come from the excuses and apologies offered by politicians before the Covid Inquiry. It will come from ending the unjust political system they uphold.
Here to Stay, Here to Fight: The Bengali Squatters Movement
Faced with institutional racism in council housing and violence on the streets, hundreds of Bengali families in 1970s East London decided to squat, taking over entire streets and estates.
The Miners’ Fight in Their Own Words
Based on the accounts of nearly 150 people directly involved in the 1984-85 miners' strike, Robert Gildea's new book is a powerful retelling of the seismic struggle that has divided Britain for decades.