Issue 30
The chaotic, brutal imposition of the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ has overshadowed the start of 2026. But is Trump partly driven by insecurity about gathering left-wing victories in the Western hemisphere — and is a new left Atlanticism possible?
On the frontline of international digital labour, TikTok moderators are starting to join hands across the world as they seek protection from a brutal workplace environment where trauma and violence are par for the course.
In the heart of London’s financial district, The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree is providing something precious for a mainly Latin American congregation drawn from the City’s migrant workforce: the space to collectively organise.
As we seek to forge a new left internationalism, we must acknowledge what we’re up against — a global far-right network that subverts and parodies inherited liberal structures. Is a more radical democratic alternative possible?
In Britain, as throughout the world, the old orthodoxies of the political establishment are crumbling. But though there may be trouble ahead, there is also plenty of room for optimism about the future of the Left.
One of the main driving forces of 2020s geopolitics is the neo-colonial scramble to access so-called critical minerals used in the AI industry. How on earth did this dystopian nightmare come to pass?
The unstoppable rise of China in recent years has completely disrupted the unipolar global power structure that dominated post-Cold War politics. Amid all the churn and change, is there scope for radical socialist breakthroughs across the planet?
Faced with the horror of the Gaza genocide, we must not forget that Israel’s actions depend on the support of global economic and political structures that continue — and update — historic forms of oppression like the British Empire.
As an anti-racist facing terror charges with the ‘Bradford 12’ and a novelist observing the South Asian experience in Britain, there are few figures such as Tariq Mehmood today.
At the start of the twentieth-century, a mass movement of European workers came together under the banner of the Jewish Labour Bund. Over a hundred years later, their dream of solidarity beyond borders is more relevant than ever.
Angered by US crimes raging in Vietnam, writers, intellectuals and activists from around the world formed the Russell Tribunal to hold America to account where international institutions had failed.
For all its emphasis on global freedom and a liberating internationalism, neoliberalism was in fact brought into being with the aid of a colonial system built on hierarchy, exploitation, and oppression.
The post-war English novelist – and 1930s Tribune staff member – Alexander Baron is celebrated for his depictions of wartime army life and dramatisations of a changing Hackney. Baron expert Ken Worpole sat down with Tribune to illuminate his remarkable narrative.
How did a white Mancunian who never once visited the Middle East and couldn’t speak Arabic record over 200 albums of experimental electronic music with explicitly pro-Palestinian themes? And how might his work echo today?
BBC dramatist Sally Wainwright commands huge audiences for her female-led shows. But does a new study celebrating the empowerment and grit of her matriarchs ignore a deeper, darker narrative about complicity and violent desire?
A new exhibition tries to bring to life futurist and constructivist art through generative AI — but ends up affirming the need to do as avant-garde figures of the past did: imagine something better.