Britain’s cost of living crisis was created by privatisation, which turned essentials into profit centres — universal basic services offer a way to bring costs down.

In the heart of London’s financial district, The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree is providing something precious for a mainly Latin American congregation drawn from the City’s migrant workforce: the space to collectively organise.

A new Marxist history traces decades of US intervention in Iran — from the 1953 coup to today’s sanctions regime — and how it laid the groundwork for the crisis now engulfing the Middle East.

As young voters across Ireland increasingly back Sinn Féin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism, the party’s national chair, Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of this moment.

On the frontline of international digital labour, TikTok moderators are starting to join hands across the world as they seek protection from a brutal workplace environment where trauma and violence are par for the course.

In their rush to embrace artificial intelligence, the government is fast-tracking US tech companies into British schools — transforming education in ways they neither understand nor control.

Louis Theroux’s new documentary captures the rise of online misogyny — but behind the world of far-right influencers lies the unchecked power of the tech companies and their profit-driven platforms.

The Green Party has slammed Keir Starmer for enabling the war on Iran, demanding an end to British military cooperation with the US and Israel.

From GB News to the Telegraph, Britain’s oligarchic media has normalised anti-Muslim prejudice — and reshaped politics in its image, writes Peter Oborne.

Nigel Farage claims that Reform is the new ‘party of workers’, yet only four percent of its candidates have traditional working-class jobs — exposing its populist facade for pro-elite interests.

A new East London leisure centre symbolises the restrained ambitions for sport and play under permanent austerity.

Liverpool writer Jeff Young has attracted a dedicated readership in recent years, following publication of two books that powerfully and hypnotically catalogue late-1970s Europe and his native Merseyside over the last few decades.

Ministers are allowing US bombers to use British bases despite clear public opposition to the attacks on Iran. Parliament must vote before the government drags us deeper into this illegal war, writes Iqbal Mohamed MP.

If Labour wants to rebuild trust in democracy, it must confront the growing influence of extreme wealth on our political system, writes Neil Duncan-Jordan MP. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/big-...

The US hoped a devastating air campaign would trigger regime collapse. But Iran is fighting back — and reshaping the terms of the conflict. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/iran...

Royal Mail’s owners must stop ignoring the chaos in the postal system and accept that quality service requires decent working conditions and a real vision for the company’s future, writes Communications Workers Union general secretary Dave Ward. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/reve...

Far from being a community effort to defend boozers, Reform UK’s campaign to ‘save British pubs’ is a seedy attempt to open up tax breaks for millionaire hospitality tycoons.

After years of publicly supporting Conservative governments, Tracey Emin now presents herself as non-partisan — yet the personal agonies depicted in her work remain inseparable from the political contexts that shaped them.

The creeping enshittification of online platforms isn’t accidental but the inevitable consequence of the power of Big Tech. Only organised workers can reverse it.

The Shonandai Cultural Centre in Japan is public architecture with the space to dream. A book series recounts the ways in which it offers a corrective to the ‘fun’ architecture New Labour hoped would regenerate British cities.

The Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton represents the failures of Starmer’s Labour. But if socialists abandon the Party now, it will only strengthen Reform.

The National Gallery’s outsourcing and poor treatment of staff is driving its BAME workforce into poverty and precarity. Their union says this amounts to discrimination against black and brown workers.

The Right to Food Commission is bringing together trade unionists, community organisers, tenants’ unions, and NGOs to document the crisis driving hunger in modern Britain — and to build a new movement to end it.

The unstoppable rise of China in recent years has completely disrupted the unipolar global power structure that dominated post-Cold War politics. Amid all the churn and change, is there scope for radical socialist breakthroughs across the planet?

The Green Party has proven it can remake our broken politics — and its message of hope is resonating with working-class people across the country, writes MP Hannah Spencer.

By allowing US forces to use British bases to bomb Iran, Keir Starmer is echoing Tony Blair’s obedience to Washington — dragging Britain into yet another costly, catastrophic and illegal war. My piece for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/star...

By allowing US forces to use British bases to bomb Iran, Keir Starmer is echoing Tony Blair’s obedience to Washington — dragging Britain into yet another criminal war, writes @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social.

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The Gorton and Denton result has exposed the failure of Starmer’s political project. Labour now needs new leadership and a different course before the damage becomes irreversible, writes Jon Trickett MP.

Television once portrayed labour struggles and the central role work plays in our lives. Why have modern dramas pushed these stories off screen?

An international best-selling book imagines Russia achieving its maximalist war aims, capturing the anxieties and paranoia pushing Europe toward a new arms race.

Jim Ratcliffe’s anti-immigration tirade reveals a staggering ignorance of the role immigrants have played in building Manchester United — and the damage of greedy billionaires like him.

Palestine activist Amu Gib is running for council from prison. Their election would be a victory for the movement and a defeat for the government that jailed them.

Today, 14 million people in Britain face food insecurity. Ending that scandal means winning a legal Right to Food — and trade unions must lead that fight.

‘We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution — real girls’ talk.’ Nina Simone was born on this day in 1933.

The outrage over Labour Together's spying on Times journalists and silence over the same tactics used against journalists from outside the legacy media sends a clear message: press freedom is for the establishment alone.

The Labour Together spying scandal shows how Britain’s mainstream press looked the other way when dirty tricks were deployed against the Left — allowing a culture of surveillance and paranoia to take political power.

Leftists seeking to change the world are increasingly also trying to change themselves via self-help frameworks for emotional and romantic improvement. But is this variety of literature more symptom than cure?

Spontaneous ‘FUCK ICE’ chants have propelled Brody King from cult favourite to anti-ICE icon — and rattled wrestling’s corporate partners.

Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ adaptation strips the novel of its racial, regional, and class dynamics, producing an empty spectacle emblematic of the erasure of working-class voices from the arts.

This Valentine's Day, we remember the revolutionary life of Jenny Marx — a socialist and feminist whose own activity, no less than her relationship with Karl, helped to shape the struggles of her time.

Today’s High Court ruling overturning the proscription of Palestine Action is a stunning victory for the anti-war movement and a damning indictment of the government. It proves its authoritarian crackdown on protest can be defeated.

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.