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The Republicans are planning attacks from social security to healthcare to the trade union movement, and they're expected to come out of today's elections victorious. For the Left, that means it's time to start planning resistance.
Postal workers have played a vital role in communities for centuries – but now that's under existential threat from a corporate leadership hell-bent on turning Royal Mail into another Uber. We can’t let that happen.
In 2022, trade unions responded to the cost of living crisis with a wave of strikes – the biggest fightback waged by the organised working class in decades.
In 1196, London's lower classes staged a dramatic mass revolt against the ruling elites. It's time their radical leader, William Longbeard, was rescued from historical obscurity.
This week, Amazon workers in Coventry have embarked on a second wave of historic strike action. Picket lines are bigger, workers are louder – and resolve is stronger than ever.
The Salford Red Devils have shown how ordinary people can run a top-level rugby league club free of corporate owners – but to secure its future, the club needs wider support and solidarity.
Union leader Jack Jones – born on this day in 1913 – was known as ‘the most powerful man in Britain’ for defending British workers. But his decades spent fighting Spanish fascism and South African apartheid deserve to be remembered too.
In 1972, ten thousand kids walked out of school in Britain to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.
Writer and poet Michael Rosen - one of Britain's most beloved public figures - sits down with Tribune to talk about the Jewish socialist roots of his politics – and why we should adore the NHS.
The NHS has always had wealthy enemies, but now they have a clear plan to bring it down: starve public healthcare of funding and let private provision grow in its place.
Ken Loach sits down with Tribune to discuss his career, the opportunities for political cinema today, and why artists should unmask exploitation and highlight ordinary peoples’ struggles against injustice.
On this day in 1919, a strike over a 40-hour work week led to Red Clydeside’s most famous confrontation.
New Labour’s technocratic managerialism agenda involved ceding control of the Bank of England — a decision with profound consequences to this day. While unelected technocrats are able to hike interest rates and engineer economic slowdowns, workers will remain worse off.
40 years ago today, 11 Dublin supermarket workers walked out on strike to refuse the selling of South African fruit — an act of defiance that would make Ireland the first Western nation to ban apartheid goods.
Last year, Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle visited Rojava to learn about its radical democratic ‘revolution’. He argues that support for the Kurdish cause is now more important than ever.
An anonymous civil servant writes for Tribune about the politics of senior Whitehall figures and why they will aim to frustrate a Corbyn government.