The Dark Truth About Dubai’s Influencer Marketing
Influencers play a vital role in selling Dubai to tourists – but the photos they post of luxurious holidays are often a state-sponsored exercise to cover up the day-to-day abuse of migrant workers.
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‘Come What May, We’re Here to Stay’: Remembering the Asian Youth Movements
From the 1960s to the '80s, the Asian Youth Movements organised against racists and the far-right on Britain's streets. Speaking to Tribune, the activists behind those efforts call for that flame to be reignited.
‘We’re Mapping Strikes to Help Build the Workers’ Movement’
The new Strike Map UK initiative aims to put a spotlight on the scale of industrial action taking place across Britain – and build links of solidarity which can strengthen the working-class movement.
How Fossil Fuel Companies Have Exploited the Covid Pandemic
While lockdown puts climate movements on hold, oil and gas lobbyists have increased their access to public subsidies and placed themselves at the centre of economic recovery plans.
America’s Capitol Riots Could Come to Britain, Too
Trumpism is not an isolated phenomenon: right-wing radicalisation is happening across the world. In Britain, it has already led to a steep increase in domestic terrorism – and worse could be next, unless we fight it now.
Covid-19 Vaccines Should Be a Public Good
Covid-19 vaccines should be mass produced and made available to the whole world – but because of the pharmaceutical industry and its patents, private profit and not public health will determine the rollout.
The Real Third World
The 'Third World' was not always a pejorative term. Its origins lie in a revolutionary post-colonial project that aimed to find a path to development beyond the Cold War camps.
Ruins of the Mind
Joelle M. Abi-Rached’s new book uses a single psychiatric hospital to tell both the history of psychiatry and the history of modern Lebanon.
‘Vaccine Holidays’ Are a Symbol of the New Covid Inequality
Across the world, the rich are skipping queues with 'vaccine holidays' – while 130 countries, home to 2.5 billion people, wait for a single dose. The end of the pandemic is the start of a new era of global inequality.
Birmingham’s Bright Lights
Birmingham has a reputation as a place where cultural life died a death in the face of grinding poverty, but that is a sterile myth – we explore the Second City's brief and unexpected role as a centre of 1960s radical counterculture.
The Colour Bar at the Border
For decades, 'concern' about immigration to Britain sought to preserve the racial hierarchies of the empire – and imperial notions of 'us' and 'them' continue to affect our political discourse today.
How to Tackle the Corporate Tax Dodgers
Corporate tax avoidance is systemic in the modern economy, accounting for $600 billion a year, but a number of new plans aim to close the loopholes – and force the world's wealthiest companies to pay their share.
Bill Gates’ Monopoly Medicine
The Gates Foundation claims to have fought for access to medicine during the pandemic, but its defence of intellectual property rights has had the opposite impact – and exposed the limits of philanthrocapitalism.
The Social Architecture of Julian Sofaer
The late Iraqi-Jewish architect Julian Sofaer, who died in 2017, designed a variety of public buildings across London through a humanist lens – which have left an indelible and modern mark on the city's landscape.
Chasing Utopia
Between the wars, various groups experimented in building new societies. None lasted – but they were proof of the enduring desire for a future radically different from the past.
The Floods Will Get Worse – Unless the System Changes
The extreme flooding seen across the world, including in London, in recent weeks is the collision of two disasters created by the ruling class – climate change and infrastructural collapse.