Tribune editor Ronan Burtenshaw sits down with Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald to discuss whether her party can build a new republic on the island of Ireland.
Economic elites have long understood the contradiction between capitalism and democracy — and have used austerity to roll back working-class power to protect private profits.
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.
The posthumously published memoir of Algerian freedom fighter and revolutionary Mokhtar Mokhtefi, I Was a French Muslim, sketches a life of struggle against oppression and colonialism.
A hundred years after its emergence, modern architecture is still controversial. The Red Library this issue looks at how it came into being and some of its suppressed histories.
The transformation of industrial spaces into clubs and then into flats in cities like Manchester has created a strange ouroboros of self-consuming development.
In the dark days of John Major’s Britain, Channel 4’s Eurotrash took aim at Britain’s relationship with ‘the continent’ and created a low-art surrealist classic in the process.
Two photobooks documenting what could be called ‘socialist playgrounds’ reveal the differences between adults designing for children, and children designing for themselves.
A new book on the beginnings of football in the Soviet Union reveals how the Bolsheviks first regarded it as an opium of the people — and then tried to build a game of their own.
Stuart Jeffries’ new book charts a lively history of postmodernism from the 1970s to the millennium through a discussion of pivotal artworks, pop cultural figures, cultural theorists and political events. But are we really still living in ‘postmodern’ times?
However you read the statistics, the climate crisis has to mean less building. What does a future of living in old buildings hold for the future of architecture?
The post-war New Town in Bulgaria has just celebrated its 75th birthday. Its combination of Stalinist aesthetics and post-socialist kitsch is all that the country’s elites find shameful, but there is still life in this ‘city of the future’.
