In September this year, the largest unitary local authority in Europe effectively declared bankruptcy. Birmingham Council, which serves over a million people, issued a Section 114 notice on 5 September, meaning it can’t fund its forecast spending for the next twelve months. The consequences for the residents of England’s second city are dire — the council […]
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On 8 September, the Department for Transport unveiled a minor funding programme for green public transport. It came with a claim that the government is cementing the UK’s position as ‘a world leader’ in ‘climate resilience’, and that the Conservative Party’s measures are ‘helping us keep our transport network resilient into the future’. What Transport […]
When it comes to the limits of Labour’s ambitions for economic change, it is hard to know where to begin. In just a few weeks leading up to the Labour conference, the party has backtracked on three fundamentals that once underpinned its programme: green industrial investment, reforms to workers’ rights, and tax justice. In all […]
When it comes to the limits of Labour’s ambitions for economic change, it is hard to know where to begin. In just a few weeks leading up to the Labour conference, the party has backtracked on three fundamentals that once underpinned its programme: green industrial investment, reforms to workers’ rights, and tax justice. In all […]
It is no longer radical to acknowledge that nothing works in the UK. In a land of failing public services, industrial conflict, escalating poverty, and generalised social breakdown, the phrase ‘broken Britain’ sounds like something of a cliché. Members of the financial press have suggested, with no hint of irony, that the UK bears all […]
Earlier this summer it was announced that Hakim Adi, Britain’s leading historian of Pan-Africanism, modern African political history, and the African diaspora, was to be made redundant by the University of Chichester. At the same time, the university also announced plans to suspend all recruitment to his groundbreaking master’s by research (MRes) course. The move […]
‘There are many more of us who want to advance than there are those wanting to retreat.’ This was the proclamation made by Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s centre-left prime minister, after the country bucked Europe’s wider shift to the Right in July’s general election. It was a remarkable result. Polls had predicted an outright parliamentary majority […]
Nearly sixteen months have passed since the RMT began industrial action on the railways. In that time, we’ve had three prime ministers, four chancellors, and three transport secretaries. One constant, however, has been the determination of the government to force through damaging cuts. The closure of 1,000 ticket offices announced in July is the latest […]
Panic, fear, uncertainty. Everything changed after March 2020. A deadly disease was spreading fast, brick and mortar businesses went bust, and long-term employees lost their livelihoods. But for billionaire Jeff Bezos, business was booming. His trillion-dollar company was opening a new warehouse in the US roughly every twenty-four hours and cementing its position as an […]
From the far side of the Atlantic, Tribune recognised the fateful Chilean events of 11 September 1973, marking the death of President Salvador Allende and the violent overthrow of his left-wing Unidad Popular government as a moment of epochal significance. Penning the then-paper’s initial statement on the breaking news, Tribunite Labour MP Judith Hart lamented […]
When Estonian writer Helen Hindpere took the stage at the 2019 Game Awards to accept one of the many prizes awarded to the video game Disco Elysium, she thanked Marx and Engels ‘for providing us the political education’. Disco Elysium is a text-heavy role-playing game (RPG) about an alcoholic cop with amnesia investigating a murder in an alternative universe. […]
In the West, Shinzo Abe is perhaps best remembered for two things. In February 2017, on a visit to the White House, he had his hand crushed for almost half a minute in one of Donald Trump’s notorious ‘handshakes’. Then, five and a half years later, he was murdered with a homemade rifle by Tetsuya […]
As we continue to worsen climate change by burning fossil fuels, all these places will become harder and more expensive to defend – until the day they can’t be defended any more
This year, on the 140th anniversary of Karl Marx’s death, the Museum of Living History in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil hosted an exhibition entitled Marx in France. It coincided with one of the sharpest social and political crises in the country’s recent history. At the start of the summer, riots broke out across France’s […]
The extension of the franchise could shift the character of British politics, writes Nicholas Reed Langen
Britain's privatised energy distribution network could hold back Labour's ambitious plans for renewables
Councils are at the whim of multinational transport firms when it comes to local transport
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As Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza entered its third week, leaving over 5000 dead and at least one million residents displaced, a Tel Aviv-based think tank published a blueprint for self-proclaimed Jewish state’s final solution. In a white paper released over a week after the Hamas-led surprise attack on Israeli military bases and kibbutzes, The Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy outlined “a plan for resettlement and final rehabilitation in Egypt of the entire population of Gaza,” based on […]
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