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Yesterday, five metro mayors led by Greater Manchester’s Andy Burnham announced plans to launch legal action to prevent the closure of 1000 railway ticket offices across England. He sits down with Tribune to discuss this important campaign and his wider vision for public transport.
Labour has ditched its ambitious green policies in favour of market-based solutions — but relying on private companies to solve the climate crisis is like asking an arsonist to put out the fire they started.
Healthcare assistants are the very backbone of the NHS. Forced to work above their pay grades for poverty wages, they're going on strike for the pay — and the recognition — they deserve.
Thirty years after his death, the work of television dramatist and working-class innovator Dennis Potter is remnant of an era when complex and politically daring art was broadcast to a mass audience.
Kevin MacDonald’s excellent new documentary shows John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the maelstrom of the early 1970s American counterculture in Nixon’s America.
Though it has recently become a byword for reactionary nostalgia, the Second World War was in certain crucial ways an extension of the ‘Red Decade’ of the 1930s. A modern anti-fascist Left must reclaim this inheritance — and avoid its shortcomings.
The government’s willingness to demonise migrant workers is a sign of its increasing moral degradation. Meanwhile, like their New Labour role models, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting are supremely relaxed about multinational involvement in the NHS.
On this day in 1919, a strike over a 40-hour work week led to Red Clydeside’s most famous confrontation.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the riots that sparked the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The working-class communities which bore the brunt of the violence have benefitted least from the peace.
In 2017's general election comeback, Momentum played a key role in mobilising Labour supporters across the country. This time they plan to go one further – and help Labour into Downing Street.
In 1972, ten thousand kids walked out of school in Britain to protest corporal punishment — and force authorities to change the law.
58% of care workers in the UK are paid less than the Real Living Wage. They are four times more likely to be on zero-hour contracts. Clapping is not enough – it's time for better pay and conditions.
To mark VE Day, 97-year-old WW2 veteran and socialist Walter Nixon writes for Tribune about his experiences of the war – and in memory of his comrades who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the fight against fascism.
Researcher Joy White speaks about her new book 'Terraformed – Young Black Lives in the Inner City,' which outlines the deliberate marginalisation of working class black youth in the London borough of Newham.
When Tony Blair first became Labour leader, he saw mass membership as a way to drive the party rightwards – but in power it soon became clear that grassroots politics were incompatible with New Labour policies.
NHS waiting lists in England have hit a record high. This isn't just an unavoidable outcome of Covid-19 – it's the consequence of years of neoliberal health policy.