TRIBUNE

APRIL 22. 2025

To the Lifehouse

A new book rediscovers lessons from Black Panther survival programmes, solidarity networks of crisis-era Greece and the Occupy Sandy disaster relief efforts — and asks whether impending climate catastrophe means we should stop waiting and start doing.

APRIL 21. 2025

As Good as It Gets

A ‘filthy leftist’ in the eyes of his opponents, Pope Francis, who has died aged 88, brought radical energy to the papacy – but his reformism had limits, and now his successor seems likely to push the Catholic Church firmly rightwards.

Bring Back British Steel

The Labour government can’t delude itself that the whims of the free market can support our country’s steelworkers — we need a plan for the industry to be brought under public control.

APRIL 18. 2025

Your Worth Is Not Your Productivity

Labour’s swingeing cuts to benefits continue a long tradition of equating human worth with participation in paid employment — an unnecessary, immoral, counterproductive way to run a society.

APRIL 17. 2025

Lennon, Ono, and the Leftists

Kevin MacDonald’s excellent new documentary shows John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the maelstrom of the early 1970s American counterculture in Nixon’s America.

APRIL 16. 2025

In With the In Crowd

The Left tends to celebrate the crowd only in limited and conditional ways. A new book by Dan Hancox aims to reclaim the mass gathering for the 2020s.

APRIL 15. 2025

The Government Is Failing Hillsborough Families Again

Last year, Keir Starmer pledged that the Hillsborough Law would be passed by the disaster's 36th anniversary, which is today. Its delay is further evidence of his government's priorities: protecting powerful interests against the threat of justice.

APRIL 14. 2025

Radical Gaming

A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

APRIL 11. 2025

We Need a Liveable Wage

One in six UK jobs paid below the real Living Wage in 2024 — 800,000 more than the previous year. The workers who keep society running shouldn't be fighting to make ends meet.

APRIL 10. 2025

The Anti-Anti-Apartheid Movement

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s embrace of far-right myths about South Africa’s ‘anti-white’ government is part of a brazen attempt to build a white international that runs from Pretoria to Washington through Tel Aviv.