TRIBUNE

YESTERDAY

Starmerism Down Under

Anthony Albanese’s Australian Labor Party is competing with Starmer’s for blandness and capitulation — and in doing so, proving the importance of rebuilding international working-class power.

JUNE 3. 2025

Can the Public Recapture the Land?

Landowners often reap the benefit of infrastructure projects without lifting a finger. But through an increasingly used process called ‘land value capture’, private profit can be channeled back into public hands.

JUNE 2. 2025

Delivering the Homes Workers Need

In order to solve the housing crisis inherited from the Tories, Labour needs to look beyond the ‘bonfire of red tape’ narrative and crack down on developer profiteering.

A New Era for Tribune

Under new leadership, Tribune will continue its print publication, which has been in circulation since 1937, while pursuing an ambitious expansion of its editorial mission.

MAY 30. 2025

Too Lammy, Too Late

As British establishment opinion begins to turn against Israel, the hypocrisy shown by government figures like Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who long defended Israeli brutality, is both ironic and infuriating.

MAY 29. 2025

How to Solve a Problem Like Productivity

British productivity has been stagnating for years. But what if the solution lies in empowering workers – and making people happy and healthy more generally – rather than in narrow economic fixes?

MAY 28. 2025

Israel in the Cold

Israel’s absence in recent negotiations between Trump, Hamas, and Middle Eastern leaders marks a crossroads in the US-Israeli relationship. Is Netanyahu losing support in Washington for his genocidal campaign?

MAY 27. 2025

Choosing Victory

As our new issue, ‘Facing the Future Again, ’ is released, incoming Tribune editor Alex Niven argues that the time for disillusioned nitpicking is over — the Left must now stand in populist, militant, unified opposition to the surging far-right.

MAY 23. 2025

Will the Margins Now Turn Right?

The rise of a new far-right Catalan nationalist party is a sinister development in European politics, showing how voters wearied by inequality and frustrated by failed devolution projects are seeking solace in blood-and-soil populism.

MAY 22. 2025

Erik Satie for the People

The elusive French composer is the subject of a freewheeling new Ian Penman book and an intense, eighteen-hour performance directed by Marina Abramovic. How seriously should we take their versions of the Satie myth?

MAY 19. 2025

Fiddling While Rome Burns

A new book about Trump’s 2024 election victory is a profoundly unsettling account of the Democratic Party machinery’s refusal to respect their own voters or offer any answers to America’s problems beyond maintaining the status quo.

Tony Benn’s Ongoing Relevance

A new anthology of Tony Benn’s writings and speeches highlights the radical democratic instincts and internationalist vision that have helped define British socialism this century.

MAY 16. 2025

Baggins of Downing Street

In delivering his toxic ‘Island of Strangers’ speech on immigration earlier this week, Keir Starmer aligned with a bizarre conservative tendency inspired in equal measure by Enoch Powell and J. R. R. Tolkien.

MAY 15. 2025

Landlords Never Really Die

Since its publication last year, Nick Bano’s book 'Against Landlords' has generated much debate about the housing crisis — and laid the ground for a new trend in left publishing.