Throughout history, too many left figureheads have presented socialism as something austere and defensive. To defeat an insurgent far right with no qualms about harnessing affect, we must embrace the utopian joy behind the socialist project. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/drea...

Really loved putting this together with Chal, a true legend of the game

In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the 2020s — with fellow music journalist @liaminscoejones.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/afte...

Conservative myths about the English countryside have made it an exclusionary haven of right-wing ideology. Can we discern anything more meaningful, substantial, and in keeping with modern reality in England’s long-stereotyped rural spaces? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/the-...

An unimaginable human tragedy, the Great Famine left a lasting legacy in how Irish people perceive themselves, and are perceived by others — but have Britons ever fully confronted this shocking episode from their imperial history? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/reck...

State pensions should be a cornerstone of intergenerational solidarity, but their gradual postponement is creating anger and hardship. The Labour government has a moral duty to fix this. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/pens...

i visited the palestine museum in edinburgh for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and spoke to founder faisal salah about showcasing the vibrancy + diversity of palestinian culture in the midst of genocide, witnessing via children's drawings, and the solidarity he has seen from the people of scotland

The new issue of Tribune is out next week. ‘Party, Protest, Power’ reflects on a tumultuous year for the British Left. Ensure you get yours by renewing your subscription or taking out a new one here: tribunemag.co.uk/subscribe

The last 2 weeks saw major cloud outages from #AmazonWebServices and #MicrosoftAzure affecting thousands of websites. As @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and I argue in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social this event is a wakeup call about the security risks of tech dependency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Scots have afforded a warm welcome to the newly opened Palestine Museum in Edinburgh, which showcases the joy, vibrancy, and unavoidable horror of Palestinian diaspora art. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/scot...

What can we learn from @awscloud.bsky.social and @microsoft.com recent cloud blackouts? The extent of dependency is so deep & widespread that we must develop #digital #sovereignty This is what @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & I explain for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud blackouts paralysed public services across the globe this autumn — a warning of what happens when essential infrastructure is left in the hands of private US monopolies. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/why-...

While liberals argue that individuals can consume ethically, socialists know that only collective organisation can meaningfully redirect capitalist profit. Can cooperative movement principles be revived in the twenty-first century? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/shou...

RIP Peter Watkins. We ran this fantastic, impassioned reappraisal of him at Tribune by Jake Roberts just two days ago for his 90th birthday

“In Peter Watkins’s world, no amount of time can bury the cry for freedom.” Rest in power Peter Watkins, socialist hero. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...

Courage my friends, tis not too late to make a better world. (Tommy Douglas, the greatest Canadian)

Nigel Farage is coming for our human rights. My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social. www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/farage-is-coming-for-our-human-rights

Nigel Farage is waging a war on human rights that will strip asylum seekers of their basic protections from injustice and harm. We can’t let that happen. @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on Faragist attacks on human decency. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/fara...

Catherine Connolly’s victory in the Irish presidential election this week was the culmination of major shifts in Ireland’s electoral landscape since 2008 — and has created an opening for a youthful left grown tired of the old Irish political establishment. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/triu...

The world of pension funds may seem unrelated to the task of building solidarity with Palestinians — but it is a vital part of the struggle for justice in the face of genocide. Lewis Backon of @pscupdates.bsky.social on pensions and the Palestine solidarity movement tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/pens...

Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remarkable socialist art. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/cryi...

The high modernism of Glasgow novelist Alexander Trocchi has often been overshadowed by his low living. At the centenary of his birth, can we discern a meaningful literary legacy beyond his associations with existentialism, Situationism and counterculture? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/salt...

Anarchist bricklayer Lucio Urtubia robbed banks to fund revolutionaries in Franco’s Spain, defrauding Citibank and getting away with it. Surely this is a story we’ve all been waiting for? Huw Lemmey on a contentious autobiography by a Spanish leftist hero. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...

The people who do the day to day work of caring for our national archive, and of giving us access to it should be given decent wages. There is too often a belief that it is ok to underpay people who work in cultural institutions because it is such a privilege to work in them. This is bollocks,

Good for them! Let's go!

Solidarity with your strike ✊🏼

The British Library has long relied on the good will of its fabulous staff, whom it treats shockingly, pays derisorily and ignores as much as it can. Faced with a contemptible 2.6% pay offer, the staff has, unsurprisingly, had enough.

British Library workers are sick of poor pay, overwork, and feeling the fallout of a cyber-attack which left them vulnerable to identity theft and blackmail. Now, they are going on strike for a fortnight. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/from...

Deregulating the banking sector was largely responsible for the 2008 financial crisis. Labour must not let history repeat itself. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/tame...

England’s disaffected working classes are angry with the state of the country, and rightly so. To regain trust, the Left must start locally.

As its shameful response to the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban underlines, the British government is exploiting Jewish suffering to protect itself — not protecting Jewish people and their communities.

Fifty years on from the Guildford Four trials, the British state continues to criminalise resistance in an attempt to wash its hands of its colonial legacy.

Why are so many members of the world’s richest class funding hate? The answer is not too difficult to find.

Keir Starmer’s rush to unleash Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans on the streets of Birmingham shows an astonishing obsession with normalising Israeli apartheid — and must be opposed.

Fifty years on from the Wages For Housework campaign, much of the movement’s momentum appears to be lost — can it be revived in the context of twenty-first-century work culture?

Labour is setting out its economic plans ahead of next month’s Budget. To regain support and stop the Reform surge, the party must be bold and decisive — and tax the super rich.

The English Collective of Prostitutes was founded fifty years ago to protect sex workers. Despite the progress they have made in the years since, the industry remains criminalised — and exploitative and unsafe as a result.

Mexican left party Morena rose to power by focusing on socioeconomic justice, visiting every corner of the country, and appointing a unifying figure as leader. To succeed, Your Party must follow their example.

Following job cuts and course closures, the UK’s universities are facing collapse — strike action is urgently needed to reverse years of decline, and improve staff working conditions.

Delegates at this year’s Green Party conference voted for a radical policy to ‘abolish landlords’, reflecting the party’s newfound confidence and an unprecedented membership surge. But can they maintain momentum?

In response to the harsh reality of national decline, Labour has offered only a ‘theme park politics’ fuelled by the sugar rush of the growth delusion. Might a more substantial, more humane vision of nationhood arise amid the ruins of Britain’s broken infrastructure?

Ahead of her talk at TWT, Zarah Sultana argues that we must ensure that initiatives like Your Party are inclusive projects to which the whole Left can contribute — and use them to take the socialist struggle onto the streets.

A new book tells the story of a 1970s experiment in England that granted tenants control of council housing, transferring power from a distant state to a grassroots cooperative. Could this successful model be revived today?

Labour’s plan to criminalise recurring protests strikes at the heart of democratic life, transforming political freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

Subject to emotionally demanding roles and low pay, charity workers are collectively organising for better working conditions — the Left must engage with the struggle, and use the sector as a foundation to build a society in which everyone is cared for.

Following a crucial conference motion, Labour has finally recognised that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza — but the struggle to drag a reluctant party establishment toward justice continues.

This year’s Labour conference was a showcase for Keir Starmer’s increasingly hapless leadership of the country — but it also underlined that if there is any future at all for the party, it must lie with a resurgent Left.

This year’s Labour conference was a showcase for Keir Starmer’s increasingly hapless leadership of the country — but it also underlined that if there is any future at all for the party, it must lie with a resurgent Left.

Late 2020s British culture is dominated by an oppressive mix of boredom and quiet violence. Meanwhile, working-class forms of expression are aggressively marginalised by a decaying bourgeoisie.