New Future

Political prisoner Aleks Herbich — one of the ‘Filton 24’ accused of sabotaging an Israeli arms factory — describes the vile conditions the prisoners suffer in, and how belonging to such a mass movement has made her feel freer than ever.

The unpopularity of Keir Starmer’s reactionary Labour government has created a generational opportunity in British politics. Rebuilding the Left will be difficult — but this could be a start.

In a wide-ranging interview with Tribune, Jeremy Corbyn discusses his hopes for the new Left party, the potential for coalition building, and his determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism.

Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.

The cultural memory of the Second World War has long been used to serve the interests of British conservatism. But now that the long post-war compact is over, has its meaning evaporated completely?

From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, Jeremy Corbyn continues the call for nuclear disarmament and world peace in a speech at the World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs. We publish his remarks, edited for length and clarity, here.

As Israel continues its genocidal rampage, including the recent bombing of a church in Gaza City, the late Pope Francis’s legacy on Palestine stands in ever starker contrast to the Christians of the British cabinet.

Though it has recently become a byword for reactionary nostalgia, the Second World War was in certain crucial ways an extension of the ‘Red Decade’ of the 1930s. A modern anti-fascist Left must reclaim this inheritance — and avoid its shortcomings.

Recent clampdowns on protest under Starmer and Sunak extend a long-running war on the Left waged by the British state. Meanwhile, far-right forms of extremism are scandalously deemed low-risk ‘cultural nationalism’.

After nearly 21 months of unrelenting horror, the UK has called for the potential recognition of Palestinian as a state. But so long as it continues to aid Israel’s genocide, the promise to acknowledge statehood in September should be met with skepticism.

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath were a product of post-war Britain’s industrial heartland. But today, for Birmingham, metal, and young working-class people, those conditions could not be further away.

Labour MP Rachael Maskell and her colleagues were stripped of the whip after voting against government plans to cut Personal Independence Payments. In response, she looks to the legacy of social reformers Joseph and Seebohm Rowntree.

The new poetry collection by London writer Caleb Femi is a modern epic based on the institution of the ‘shoobs’ and its under-explored experimental potential.