🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
This week, @GraceBlakeley is joined by @AeronDavis1.
They discuss the role of the markets in Truss's downfall - and how financialisation is no replacement for democracy.
On Spotify, iTunes and wherever else you get your podcasts now! 📻
https://t.co/7f2VuvdeLr
"A lot of the problems we have in our society today... they all come back to this question of individualism."
@graceblakeley spells out how Thatcherism destroyed society as we know it.
My last @tribunemagazine editorial is now online for those interested in longer reflections on the past five years.
Also a chance to thank a lot of people I couldn't in a tweet – like @sunraysunray and @remeike, who made the revival of Tribune possible.
https://t.co/lluqgFB9VV
Last day as Tribune editor.
Thank you to everyone who read us, worked for us and wrote for us in the past 5 years as we rebuilt a great institution.
Glad to be leaving it to my friends @taj_ali1 and @karl_fh.
I’ll be announcing a new media project soon – but first, a break 🍺
“To actually announce in advance that you’re going to break international law against an innocent population…
“It reduces all the code from the Second World War through the Geneva Conventions about the protection of civilians to tatters.”
- @PresidentIRL on Israel’s Gaza siege
"I'm American but I live in the UK so I pay taxes to two countries who will explicitly aid and sanction this genocide. This genocide will be carried out with American and British weapons."
Deeply moving piece by @robdelaney on the horror we are seeing in Gaza.
These New Ghosts
Comedian and author @RobDelaney on Israel's genocide in Gaza, the complicity of our governments and how political leaders ‘profane the memory’ of those who have died.
https://t.co/EAz4fVnbkX
Ending Apartheid Is the Only Path to Peace
For over 75 years, Palestinians have been subject to occupation and apartheid. Condemning the latest violence but remaining silent about that injustice only exposes the West's staggering hypocrisy.
https://t.co/7jnUh12qpZ
Real estate CEO Tim Gurner sparked outrage this week after calling for a rise in unemployment to put workers in their place. We should be grateful for his comments — they reveal what the ruling class really thinks, writes @graceblakeley. https://t.co/jPpLpeSlIK
Mark Serwotka has been general secretary of @pcs_union for 23 years. Set to retire at the end of the year, he discusses the recent wave of strikes involving 133,000 civil servants and reflects on what he has learnt in his time in the role. https://t.co/CSfO6ktEZr
The Eomemoria project plants trees to keep alive the memory of the socialists and trade unionists murdered and disappeared by Pinochet's fascist regime — and to reverse the deforestation caused by its destructive neoliberal policies. https://t.co/ba63jgabzt
After escaping Pinochet's bloody military coup, Mike Gatehouse returned to Britain to lead the Chile Solidarity Campaign. 50 years on, he sits down with Tribune to discuss why the crusade against Chilean fascism should inspire socialists today.
https://t.co/nuXwCBLMam
50 years ago today, socialist leader Salvador Allende was murdered in a military coup. In the aftermath, thousands of refugees fled to Britain — and built a community of solidarity.
https://t.co/lREEcUv2Io
Rugeley was once home to a thriving coal industry that underpinned a community. Today, it is the site of an Amazon warehouse that exposes the bleak reality of work in modern Britain.
https://t.co/PdmjWCoHrw
Labour's commitment to reverse the decline of unions is the only way for Britain to end job insecurity and in-work poverty — if this was ditched, it would only show that Starmer is comfortable with bosses reliant on massive exploitation to turn a profit. https://t.co/4cCL46wo1b
By watering down its commitment to workers' rights, the Labour Party is abandoning its last truly transformative policy – and consigning millions to a future of workplace insecurity.
https://t.co/qJS9WhTMoZ
In the 1980s, two young graduates set out to write a show about how Thatcherism had left Aneurin Bevan’s NHS dream ‘in tatters'.
The creators of Casualty sat down with Tribune to discuss the politics that shaped its message. https://t.co/CHxqiYdxbj
Michael Marmot - one of Britain’s leading healthcare voices - speaks to Tribune about how austerity and the epidemic of social inequality threaten the future of the NHS.
https://t.co/VWcQPc2oaW
The NHS has always had wealthy enemies, but now they have a clear plan to bring it down: starve public healthcare of funding and let private provision grow in its place, writes @graceblakeley.
https://t.co/rKBCAtf8Xn