New Future

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?

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a High Court case seeking to block sale of British munitions used by Israel in Gaza begins, one of the campaigners involved — former UN Assistant Secretary-General Andrew Gilmour — argues that Britain’s role in the process must end immediately.

Louis Theroux’s recent documentary about settler violence in the West Bank drew attention to the plight of the region — but in the Hebron Hills, where Palestinians and Jewish activists face settler devastation, the reality is even more shocking.

The subversive and sensitive output of the North East feminist film collective sought to document glamour and grace in working-class life. So why is their work absent from conventional histories?

As we mark the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism in Europe, the radical antifascist legacy of the Second World War is in danger of being forgotten. For the sake of survival, we can’t let that happen.

Politicians' pronouncements that last month's Supreme Court judgement 'clarifies' sex and gender feeds into a wider right-wing narrative that the Left is in denial about the truth of human nature — and that hostility to minorities is the only way to deal with reality.