The Last Workers’ Castle

The TUC’s decision to sell its iconic Congress House — a modernist monument to the strength of workers — is a sad example of today’s labour movement increasingly losing its sense of purpose.

Solidarity With Amrit Wilson

In a sign of Modi’s growing authoritarianism, the veteran journalist Amrit Wilson has been banned from India and labelled a threat to the state. Her crime? Writing in support of India’s farmers’ protests for Tribune.

The New New Labour

Britain’s Secret Anti-Apartheid Militants

For the first time, a new film reveals how at the height of the apartheid regime’s power, South African revolutionaries recruited and trained young British workers to assist them in the underground armed struggle to topple the racist state.

Life in the Century’s Midnight

On International Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember the resistance that organised itself in Nazi death camps.

Behind the Post Office IT Scandal

The Post Office scandal was an enormous miscarriage of justice that ruined dozens of lives — and a stark warning about the consequences of involving the private sector in our vital public institutions.

Britain’s Black International Brigadier

To mark Black History Month, we remember the life of Charlie Hutchison — Britain's only black international brigadier to Spain, a lifelong anti-fascist and one of the soldiers who liberated Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

Remembering the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass

On this day in 1932, hundreds of workers took to the hills of northern England to challenge the right of landed gentry to enclose the countryside.

Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On this day in 1943, a band of Jewish resistance fighters launched an armed insurrection against the Nazis. They were proud socialists and internationalists.

‘Beat the Fascists Wherever You See Them’

In the years after World War Two, Britain's fascist movement began to build again – a new book tells the story of how a group of young Jews organised to beat them off the streets.

Remembering André Schmer

Manchester’s Black Champion

A colour bar introduced by Winston Churchill prevented Manchester boxer Len Johnson from becoming a champion – now a new campaign wants to recognise him with a statue in the city.

How Superstore Became a Union Bar

Sick of the problems rife in hospitality, staff at the iconic queer venue Dalston Superstore formed a union. Their victories are already proving what organising can achieve in a sector with far too little union presence.

Remembering Max Levitas: A Hero of Cable Street

Max Levitas, who passed away in 2018, was part of the generation of Jewish radicals who organised the resistance to Mosley in Cable Street. On its anniversary, we remember his remarkable life.

ForViva: The “Progressive” Landlord

ForViva claims to be a "progressive landlord" that "challenges inequalities." But beneath the right-on rhetoric, its workers are fighting low-pay and abysmal conditions.

Organising Amazon

In recent months the GMB has waged a guerrilla campaign to help workers in one of the richest companies in the world fight appalling conditions.