The New Austerians
Britain is in the midst of a workers’ uprising. The return of austerity aims to kill it in its tracks.
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Bleeding Junior Doctors Dry
After years of falling pay and impossible workloads, junior doctors are organising to fight back.
‘Amazon Doesn’t Own Us’: Behind the Historic UK Strikes
This week, Amazon workers in Britain are taking part in their biggest strike yet against the corporate giant. Their groundbreaking organising campaign shows that workers can fight back against injustice – even in the most hostile of environments.
Schools Just Want to Have Funds
The teachers’ strike is about more than just fair pay — it’s a fight for the future of education.
The Only Effective Strike Is a Disruptive Strike
Under capitalism, property rights will always come before workers’ rights to decent pay and conditions – the only way to fight back is through strike action.
Selling Austerity
Austerity is justified as necessary for the sound management of the economy, but elites have always understood its true purpose: weakening the political strength of the working class.
The Manchester Student Rent Strike Is Solidarity in Action
Rent strikers at the University of Manchester aren’t just protesting the cost of living crisis – they are building a movement with trade unions to fight the marketisation of higher education.
Racism and Resistance: How South Asians Fought Back
Mukhtar Dar, a former member of the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement and the Pakistani Workers Association, speaks to Tribune about the rich tradition of political activism in the British South Asian community – and why it’s time to reignite that fighting spirit.
Mokhtar Mokhtefi’s Literature of Refusal
The recently published memoir of Algerian revolutionary Mokhtar Mokhtefi, I Was A French Muslim, powerfully portrays a life spent in the struggle against French imperialism and for the unlocking of all human potential.
Man and Showman
Dubliner Brendan Behan was born one hundred years ago. Despite his demons, he became one of the twentieth century’s great working-class writers.
The North Will Rise Again
The history of the North of England — from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the neglect of recent decades — has produced a culture at once pragmatic and hopelessly ambitious.
No, We Don’t Need Austerity!
There’s nothing ‘pragmatic’ about repeating a social catastrophe.