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Austria’s Next Socialist Chancellor

Against centrist elites, hard-right insurgents and a rigged party bureaucracy, the Marxist Andreas Babler’s Corbyn-influenced leadership campaign has won against the odds to secure a socialist direction for Austria’s Social Democrats.

When Tribune Backed the Boycott

In 1959, the African National Congress called for a boycott of South African goods as part of an international effort to bring down the apartheid regime. Tribune was the first paper in Britain to back their call.

The Struggle for the Great Reform Act

On 7 June 1832, the first Representation of the People Act passed, laying the foundations for the growth of representative democracy in Britain – it was a partial victory won by centuries of agitation.

The Pen Pushers’ Revolt

The ongoing acrimony between the Tories and the civil service is more than a spat between bullying ministers and snowflake bureaucrats – it signals the deepening cracks in the British state, writes an anonymous civil servant.

Why the Battle to Unionise Amazon Matters

Amazon workers in Coventry are on the brink of historic union recognition. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that it is possible to fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.

Remembering C. L. R. James

C.L.R James was a Trinidadian Marxist historian, theorist, and Pan-Africanist, His landmark text 'The Black Jacobins' remains the authority on Haiti's slave revolution and one of the greatest radical histories of all time.