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AUGUST 27. 2025

Gaza’s Deadly Road

In Gaza, where famine caused by Israel’s blockade is pervasive and the roads are under constant threat of gunfire, families must make a terrible choice between hunger and safety.

AUGUST 26. 2025

What Is a Working-Class Artist?

A new exhibition in post-industrial Wearside ventures beyond stereotypes to present a nuanced vision of labour history, defying the obstacles working-class creatives face in modern Britain.

AUGUST 22. 2025

Spain’s Far-Right Problem

Right-wing Spanish groupings are helping to incite racist, xenophobic rampages in a cheap attempt at parliamentary gain. Is the Spanish Left strong enough to fight it?

AUGUST 21. 2025

Son of a Toolmaker

In an extract from a new essay collection, Joe Kennedy explores how Keir Starmer's background has been used to foreground bogus notions of class identity.

AUGUST 20. 2025

Public Housing in My Back Yard

In response to a nightmarish housing crisis, Keir Starmer has proclaimed himself a ‘YIMBY’ and pledged to back ‘builders’ over ‘blockers’. Instead, we must demand a new era of the ‘PHIMBY’.

AUGUST 19. 2025

How to Make Your Area Apartheid-Free

Inspired by the campaigns which strangled apartheid South Africa, Bristol residents have built a mass movement of people and local businesses pledging to boycott Israeli goods. Here's how you can do it too.

The Great Living Squeeze

A sense of malaise among younger generations is backed up by hard economic statistics speaking of a drastic decline in living standards. How can we overhaul the individualist non-society responsible for this climate of despair?

AUGUST 18. 2025

The Art of Soft Play

A new interactive exhibition sees artist Pippa Hale reimagine the gallery into a space for all ages — emphasising the civic function of art in a society where public playfulness is in short supply.

AUGUST 15. 2025

The War Against Decline

If it feels as though we’re living through a time of decline, that’s partly because social disintegration has been the whole point of mainstream politics for decades. But as the writing in the new Tribune issue underlines, there is hope in the face of despair.

AUGUST 14. 2025

An Anti-Genocide Protester in a British Jail

Political prisoner Aleks Herbich — one of the ‘Filton 24’ accused of sabotaging an Israeli arms factory — describes the vile conditions the prisoners suffer in, and how belonging to such a mass movement has made her feel freer than ever.

Party Time

The unpopularity of Keir Starmer’s reactionary Labour government has created a generational opportunity in British politics. Rebuilding the Left will be difficult — but this could be a start.

AUGUST 13. 2025

Jeremy Corbyn: People Have Been Denied an Alternative

In a wide-ranging interview with Tribune, Jeremy Corbyn discusses his hopes for the new Left party, the potential for coalition building, and his determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism.

AUGUST 12. 2025

AI Is a Total Grift

Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.

AUGUST 10. 2025

After Captain Tom

The cultural memory of the Second World War has long been used to serve the interests of British conservatism. But now that the long post-war compact is over, has its meaning evaporated completely?