The civil rights activist Malcolm X visited Smethwick in the West Midlands on this day in 1965, just nine days before his assassination, uniting the US civil rights movement with Britain’s anti-racism movement.

With Syria’s Kurdish regions under siege from jihadi militias, more than 300 activists have mobilised a ‘People’s Caravan’ to Rojava in solidarity — and to denounce their abandonment by Western powers.

Big Tech companies are increasingly bypassing democratic systems to build deregulated spaces for controlling human existence. But in the struggle for ‘digital sovereignty’, countries are exploring the perils — and possibilities — of fighting back.

Our next issue, ‘Dream of a Red Planet’, is out this month! Read @graceblakeley.substack.com, ‪@alexniven.bsky.social‬, and Marcus Barnett on the right-wing forces reshaping global politics — and how the Left fights back. Get a year of print for just £15: tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe?co...

Rocked by corruption and paedophilia scandals, Peter Mandelson was recast by The Times Magazine as a quaint eccentric. It’s a reminder that no reputation is too shameless or tarnished for Britain’s media to launder.

Peter Mandelson’s life mission was to transform Labour from a mass political party into a plaything of corporate lobbyists. His downfall must signal the end of the sleazy politics he embodied.

Declaring Cuba a national security threat, the US has escalated its crippling economic sanctions — an absurd inversion of reality used as cover for regime change.

Manchester’s support for Labour has endured through Thatcherism, austerity, and Iraq. Defeat in the Gorton and Denton by-election would not just call into question Starmer’s future, but the party’s very survival.

Set against the backdrop of occupied Korea in the 1920s and 1930s, a newly translated book updates the nineteenth-century educational workers’ novel to punchy and defiantly unsubtle effect.

On this day in 1919, a strike over a 40-hour work week led to Red Clydeside’s most famous confrontation.

Really happy Tribune have put up this piece I wrote about Robert Wyatt, the red eccentric. Have a read! For fans of nonsense writing, jazz, anti-psychiatry and the New Left

From ICE raids in Minneapolis to National Guard boots on the streets, the US is seeing the tools of foreign intervention repurposed at home — a stark reminder that imperial violence knows no borders.

English eccentricity has historically functioned as a conservative idea, but experimental musician Robert Wyatt shows it can be repurposed in the service of Marxism.

ICE’s murderous occupation of Minneapolis reveals Trump’s insurgent fascist movement — but it is also fuelling strikes and community organising that confront its brutality with solidarity.

‘The great appear great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!’ James Larkin, leader of the Dublin Lockout and Ireland’s most influential trade unionist, was born on this day in 1874.

Blocking Andy Burnham from standing signals a leadership prepared to risk defeat by Reform rather than tolerate a victory by someone outside its faction. This act of self-sabotage must be reversed.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the resistance that organised itself inside the camps — fighters for life at the century’s midnight.

Starmer’s Control Freakery Is a Gift to Reform My article for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/star...

Keir Starmer’s decision to block Andy Burnham shows a prime minister more concerned with factional control than stopping Farage — and it’s working people who will pay the price, warns UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan.

Since the 1980s, Britain’s education system has shifted from a state provision to a business-led model, and students are bearing the cost — the Left must confront the sector’s widespread financialisation.

Pioneering Black singer Paul Robeson — who died 50 years ago today — was one of America’s great radical figures, but it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement that inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/how-...

The US threats against Britain over Greenland have exposed the lie of a ‘special relationship’. This collapsing fantasy is an opportunity for Britain to build a genuinely independent foreign policy. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/good...

Antonio Gramsci was born on this day in 1891. His 'Prison Notebooks,' written in Mussolini's jails, were among the 20th century's most important radical texts — and their translation into English catapulted the Italian Marxist to global acclaim. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/10/how-...

A captivating new book considers the grand council housing complexes of 1930s and 1940s Dublin, and their legacies today.

The habits of global financial markets have a direct impact on the cost-of-living and climate crises. Societies and governments must take back control to avoid catastrophe.

Keir Starmer has vowed to implement his digital ID scheme to combat illegal working, despite widespread national backlash. The prime minister is failing to listen to government ministers, as well as the British public.

Your Party can still become a mass socialist force capable of winning power — but only if it rejects sectarian purity politics and builds a broad working-class coalition. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/your...

Reform is manipulating its supporters to believe that migrants are to blame for Britain’s housing crisis. In reality, the party’s far-right policies will only benefit those responsible for people's inadequate living conditions: landlords and the state.

Despite government ministers' commitment to phasing out animal testing, Labour now intends to criminalise protests outside animal breeding and testing facilities — a move that will undermine British democracy.

James Joyce died on this day in 1941. His writing was shaped by the great political intrigues of his time — from nationalism and religion to his own sympathies for socialism. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/01/the-...

The US assault on Venezuela is not an isolated act of aggression but part of a wider geopolitical strategy to control energy, discipline the Global South and reassert imperial authority. It must be opposed, writes Chris Hazzard MP. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/firs...

Though not inherently political spaces, pubs have always been breeding grounds for political dissent. Nowhere is this more true than in Dublin, where pints have provided liquid inspiration for countless radicals through the ages.

A memoir reflects on a woman’s replicated bus journey across America two decades later, capturing the country’s increasingly stark inequality and greed, along with the unexpected beauty (and expected crappiness) of communal transportation.

Trust in the UK’s system of government is at a record low, with most Britons yearning for political change and economic reform. The Left must see through its radical solutions.

The story of US intervention is a story of suffering, misery and chaos. How many more catastrophic failures will it take before we learn the lesson? My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social on the illegal invasion of Venezuela. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/01/star...

Keir Starmer’s evasiveness towards Donald Trump’s assault on Venezuela is a clarifying example of Britain’s ‘special relationship’ of unthinking submission to the White House’s interests.

At the tail end of the 1960s, the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement was founded in a modest flat in the Liverpool 8 area. Its subsequent rich history offers a vital corrective to male-dominated accounts of regionalism.

Underneath its populist facade, Reform UK treats working-class Britain as fodder for posh-boy performance art. Can its growing hegemony in post-industrial areas be challenged by a gutsier, more engaged political strategy from the left?

“By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit” tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/labo...

The end of the nineteenth century saw the birth of an important but little-known movement in British working-class history: Sunday schools dedicated to teaching the values of socialism.

Nearly thirty years ago, a young barrister called Keir Starmer defended a group of activists after they damaged armaments destined for a brutal war in Asia. Why is a Starmer-led government now cracking down on similar protests?

Despite his apparent respect for so-called liberal norms, Keir Starmer is likely to go down as one of the most authoritarian prime ministers in modern history. Is he trying to eradicate popular dissent entirely?

By restricting jury trials, removing protest rights and expanding surveillance, Labour is entrenching an authoritarian legal infrastructure that a far-right government will not hesitate to exploit.

A timely new book published this year by the cultural critic Philippa Snow observes how the female celebrity magnifies the experiences of her everyday civilian counterparts, using examples from Pamela Anderson to Amy Winehouse.

The release of a Reform football shirt this summer was a depressing sign of how effectively the Right has colonised working-class popular culture. Now the Left must fight back with a determined cultural strategy of its own.

The longstanding BBC documentary maker fixed its gaze this year on Britain at the end of the last millennium — with a new focus on the workers who faced the consequences of monetarism and individualism. But was this a tale he'd told before?

As a floundering Labour government continues to sneer that it prefers ‘power’ to ‘protest’, we should remember that direct action has always been an important adjunct to party politics — and that, in an essential sense, protest is power.

Almost 80 percent of arts and culture workers in Britain have considered leaving the industry due to burnout, low pay, and precarious employment. The sector urgently needs to protect its workers and guarantee healthy, stable working conditions.

Palestine Action Éire activists are challenging definitions of ‘illegality’ by grounding their actions in international law. Can they prove that justice can be won beyond the state?

As President Trump hails more than two centuries of US hegemony in the Western hemisphere, he is using Puerto Rico — one of its victims — as a staging post for his military build-up against Venezuela.