TRIBUNE

JUNE 19. 2025

Gaza is Still Burning

While news headlines are increasingly dominated by the nuclear face-off between Israel, Iran, and the US, life remains hellish for displaced families clinging on to the edge of the Gaza City shoreline. Who will speak for them?

JUNE 18. 2025

Whatever Happened to the Postindustrial City?

After fifty years of neoliberalism, smaller British cities have some of the worst life prospects in Western Europe. Does a case study of one of them offer any clues about how to challenge uneven development and reverse postindustrial decline?

JUNE 17. 2025

Apartheid’s War on the NHS

In the past few years, British health workers have faced smears, targeted media attacks, and workplace persecution — all for the simple act of expressing support for Palestine.

JUNE 15. 2025

Laissez-Faire Listening

The Swedish tech giant has rigged the music industry against artists, mined listeners for data, and made music boring for everyone. Or is that just what the major recording labels want you to believe?

JUNE 13. 2025

Solidarity of the Ruling Class

A new book by a former Shooting Times editor argues that large landowners are given a hard time, and that campaigns to increase public access to the countryside are wrong. Surprisingly enough, the establishment loves it.

JUNE 12. 2025

Things Can Only Get Greyer

Yesterday’s Spending Review is another example of how the government is trying to muddle on through, leaving core services like social care underfunded, the wealth of the rich undertaxed, and millions of us exposed to worsening instability and insecurity.

JUNE 11. 2025

Did a Forgotten Sci-fi Novel Predict Trump 2.0?

The campaign to annex Greenland has provided one of the weirder subplots of Trump’s second presidential term. Was this harebrained colonialist episode anticipated in a now forgotten novel by two modernist masters?

JUNE 8. 2025

On National Centrism

‘Starmerism’ has been defined by absence rather than a firm plan for government. Now the Labour leadership is tending towards passive acceptance of the nationalist spirit of the age.

JUNE 4. 2025

The War Economy

One of the few policy innovations of the current Labour government is a turn towards rearmament under a new ‘military Keynesianism’. This means more profits for weapons manufacturers — and more authority for capitalist states.

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.