TRIBUNE

MARCH 24. 2025

The Turkish People Against the ‘Palace Regime’

As Turkey’s far-right government attempts to stifle democratic opposition yet again, massive protests have erupted across the country – showing that a new generation will not accept Erdoğan’s authoritarian rule.

Cut Up: The Radical Collage of Linder Sterling

A new exhibition places Manchester artist Linder Sterling not just in the post-punk scene of her home city but in a wider history of female Surrealist art.

MARCH 21. 2025

Don’t Buy Apartheid

A new national campaign is channelling the anger felt by millions towards Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza into a mass boycott of Israeli goods — and companies like Coca-Cola that prop up apartheid.

MARCH 18. 2025

Palestine vs. FIFA

Palestinian football has been at a standstill since October 2023, and now campaigners are demanding that FIFA sanctions Israel's FA. Does the organisation’s failure to do so make a mockery of its own statutes?

MARCH 17. 2025

Splitting Games

Ash Sarkar’s debut book Minority Rule ventures into the badlands of the contemporary culture wars to show how identity politics has come to obscure class struggle — and helped to dismantle left unity.

MARCH 14. 2025

Alex Niven Announced as Tribune’s New Editor

Tribune is pleased to announce that socialist writer and academic Alex Niven will be joining as its new editor. Niven, author of New Model Island, Folk Opposition and The North Will Rise Again, brings a wealth of experience in political and cultural criticism.

MARCH 13. 2025

Democratised Finance Is the Future

Financial institutions wield huge control over our day-to-day lives. We need to democratise that power.

MARCH 12. 2025

Reds Deserve Better

The proposed demolition of Old Trafford to build a corporate theme park that could have been designed by Homer Simpson is another sad example of billionaires kidnapping football — and destroying something special about Manchester — in the name of profit.

MARCH 11. 2025

Labour Must Pull in the Workers’ Direction

The Employment Rights Bill could see the biggest expansion of workers’ rights in a generation and improve millions of workers’ lives — the government can’t afford to bow to corporate lobbyists seeking to dilute it.

MARCH 10. 2025

End the Privatised Water Scam

Thames Water, teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, is the poster child for failed privatisation. Labour's refusal to even consider the prospect of public ownership for this vital utility puts ideology above reason.

Making More Mick Lynches

The departure of Mick Lynch from the RMT leadership offers a chance to reflect on his extraordinary legacy — and points to ways in which the British left might be rebuilt with his populist, communitarian example in mind.

MARCH 6. 2025

‘I’m Still Here’ Is a Story for Now

The success of 'I’m Still Here' at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.

MARCH 5. 2025

Dave Proudlove: ‘Three Figures to Watch Fulham? Come on Lads’

A new book about grassroots football and its industrial past sheds light on neglected spaces of working-class experience. Tribune sat down with its author Dave Proudlove to talk gentrification, escapism, and the radical potential of the non-league game.

MARCH 4. 2025

Neukölln Dreaming

Rejecting calls to tack right on immigration, Die Linke made impressive gains in last month’s German elections by cultivating a new form of radical politics that pushes working-class communities – and an ethic of ‘revolutionary kindness’ – to the fore.