TRIBUNE

NOVEMBER 27. 2024

Exhibiting Emo!

A new fan-produced Barbican exhibition showcases the dramatic mid-2000s emo subculture. But does its focus narrow, rather than illuminate, a still ongoing cultural phenomenon?

NOVEMBER 26. 2024

My Hunger Strike Against Genocide

Lizzie Greenwood is on day 31 of her hunger strike, consuming just 250 calories a day — the same as what Palestinians in Gaza endure. Writing for Tribune, she vows to continue until arms sales stop.

Finding Communism in Katy Perry?

A new book by Toby Manning argues that the best music of the past 60 years has often reflected, foreshadowed or even embraced the turmoil and radicalism of its time.

The Students Can Beat Apartheid Again

The movement to defend 7 LSE students suspended for pro-Palestine activism can take inspiration from the 1960s, when a wave of protests and occupations defeated the university’s attempt to crush opposition to white supremacist Rhodesia.

NOVEMBER 25. 2024

Private Equity Is Coming for Your Pets

Private equity is taking over vet services to raise prices and close down clinics where workers demand better wages — showing that nothing is safe from their profiteering, even our pets.

NOVEMBER 23. 2024

Making the Billionaires Pay

Under the leadership of Brazil’s socialist president, the G20 has made a historic agreement to tax the world’s super-rich — now it’s time to make that deal a reality.

NOVEMBER 22. 2024

Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu

If Benjamin Netanyahu sets foot on British soil, the authorities have an indisputable obligation to arrest him — a failure to do so risks turning Britain into a rogue state, open for mass murderers fleeing justice.

NOVEMBER 21. 2024

The Politically Sensible Road to Armageddon

Keir Starmer's refusal to discuss authorising UK-made missiles to strike Russia provides a telling example about our elites — even when they’re risking nuclear war, they don’t think people deserve an explanation.

NOVEMBER 18. 2024

Labour’s War on Protest

The Tories introduced laws that criminalised protest to deal with the disorder they knew their policies would cause — and Labour’s refusal to repeal these laws indicates their interest in protecting that status quo.

NOVEMBER 17. 2024

Refusing to Learn Lessons

Rachel Reeves has pledged to deregulate the financial sector, arguing there is too much focus on ‘risk’ and not enough on ‘growth’. For working people, it’s a recipe for disaster.

NOVEMBER 14. 2024

The Sad Oracle

His chronicles of liberal discontent have made Michel Houellebecq one of the most renowned writers of the century as well as a far-right prophet. Yet liberalism’s fiercest critic still hasn’t found his alternative future.

The Economics of Despair

Of the ten most deprived areas of Britain, seven saw far-right pogroms this summer. Any attempt to counter the rise of fascism must start with reckoning with and stamping out the system which spawned it.

As I Please

As Reform UK soars in the polls and Muslim communities come under attack, Starmer’s Labour remains alarmingly complacent about undermining what gives the far right an advantage.

Remembering the Black People’s Day of Action

Following the killing of thirteen black youths in a suspected far-right arson attack, Britain’s black population formed an unprecedented movement to confront the institutional racism of the police and the media.