The Boycott Ban Is a Threat to Democracy
The government’s anti-boycott bill is an attack on our political freedoms – and while it currently targets solidarity with Palestine, its ramifications apply to every social justice campaign.
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Labour’s Love Affair with Private Healthcare
From the embrace of private hospitals to shady donations from private health interests, there is little to suggest that today’s Labour leadership intends to defend Aneurin Bevan’s vision of a truly public NHS.
Celebrating Ken Loach
For over six decades, Ken Loach – who turns 87 today – has made powerful, committed work that unmasks exploitation and highlights ordinary peoples’ struggles against injustice.
Pay Fair for Patient Care: Healthcare Assistants Are Ready to Strike
Healthcare assistants are the very backbone of the NHS. Forced to work above their pay grades for poverty wages, they're gearing up to strike for the pay – and the recognition – they deserve.
No, Capitalism Isn’t Democratic
Authoritarianism is on the rise despite the liberal prediction that the spread of free markets would result in more democracy – that's because capitalism will always defend social hierarchies against the threat of economic equality.
Want Us to Stay? You Need to Pay: Why Junior Doctors Are on Strike
Underpaid, overworked, and struggling to hold up a health service in collapse: Dr Vivek Trivedi from the BMA talks to Tribune about the exodus of staff from the NHS – and why their strike is a fight to save the health service.
Remembering Walter Rodney
Guyanese Marxist Walter Rodney was assassinated on this day in 1980. We republish his final essay on the struggle for democracy in his native land.
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.
Trickett: Driscoll Case Shows It’s Time for Democrats to Take a Stand
The blocking of Jamie Driscoll as North East Mayor shows that Labour is acting like a narrow clique with no respect for the party’s pluralist traditions.
Labour’s ‘Bidenomics’ Offers Nothing for Workers
Rachel Reeves claims a Labour government would embrace 'Bidenomics' – but her commitment to austerity and hostility to striking workers makes clear the party is even less willing to challenge elite interests than its US counterpart.