Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected as Labour leader, comfortably defeating his challenger Owen Smith, and scoring 61.8% of the total vote, a larger margin of victory than last year. He said …
Jeremy Corbyn told party activists after Labour’s bruising Leadership contest: “Together we are very, very strong”. From now on the party’s priority must be “reaching out, involving people in politics …
The cash strapped BBC is failing to recover tens of millions of pounds for broadcasters by not having an up to date strategy on licence evaders. A report by the …
TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady has backed a Commons probe into corporate governance which will focus on excessive executive pay and the make-up of boardrooms. The move by the business, …
By-elections after the death of Labour MP Jo Cox and the resignation of former Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron will be held on 20 October. Mrs Cox was killed in …
Former European Council president Herman Van Rompuy warned that substantive Brexit talks between the UK and the rest of the EU are unlikely to start much before the end of …
The foreign affairs select committee has ruled that British courts should decide the legality of Government arms exports to Saudi Arabia. The MPs backed calls for the UK to suspend …
In what has become the dirtiest US election campaign in memory, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and Libertarian Gary Johnson both failed to qualify for the first presidential debate on …
The Women and Equalities Committee has exposed a shocking scale of sexual harassment and sexual violence that is not being tackled effectively in British schools. I ts report revealed that …
Theresa May’s plans for a new wave of selective schools in England has began to unravel as they were condemned across the political and educational spectrum, but some councils in …
A former policeman embroiled in the Battle of Orgreave has revealed he refused to obey “wrongful orders” from senior officers. His evidence will bolster evidence that the police, given a …
The media and entertainment union BECTU is to merge with Prospect next year after its membership voted decisively in favour of joining forces with the professionals’ union. The ballot closed …
Ian Hernon New TUC research has found that around one in eight (12%) men and women are forced to stop working before state pension age due to ill-health or disability. …
The TUC warned directors’ pay at FTSE 100 firms has reached “stratospheric” levels, with top executives receiving a year’s worth of the minimum wage in just one day. The research …
The TUC has warned companies that there will be “no hiding place” if they exploit their workers. General secretary Frances O’Grady told delegates at its annual conference in Brighton that …
Jolyon Maugham QC, a barrister challenging the power of Theresa May to activate Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, says the Prime Minister has no right to start Brexit. It’s …
On the bank holiday weekend, when prime minister Theresa May watched the cricket at Lords, the stevedores of Southampton loaded a Swedish ship with the cars and machines that Britain …
The UK government could slow down immigration without breaking EU rules. Chartered accountant Philip Shirley claims a simple tweak of the Pay As You Earn tax system would discourage EU …
More than 50 hospitals in England have been given the green light to miss key waiting time targets this year to help ease their cash crises. The move is part …
A “kamikaze” plot to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as the democratically elected Labour leader has entered a summer of choreographed discontent by right-wing MPs prepared to adopt the discredited Trotskyist theory …
A House of Lords inquiry has found that thousands of lone migrant children are living in squalid conditions after being let down by European countries, including the UK. Youngsters face …
Overworked staff at a Ministry of Justice agency made a series of serious blunders in paying out complex criminal compensation payments to victims, a report by the government’s auditors has …
Donald Trump has a record of resisting union organisation in his businesses, and yet his false promises still appeal to white working class voters. Despite the pro-worker, anti-trade deal rhetoric …
The return of grammar and secondary modern schools is inexplicable, even to many Tories. Why the Conservatives want to bring back Grammar schools – and with them, of course, Secondary …
Tribune went to press before the Labour Leadership vote closed, but assumptions were that Jeremy Corbyn will have won again due to overwhelming support among the rank and file. Considered …
The new Far Right in Europe is exploiting the alienation caused by the dominance of neo-liberalism There’s an increasing number of violent events taking place across Europe, driven by …
The Most Reverend Edward Daly December 5 1933-August 8 2016 Edward Daly may be best remembered as the priest holding up a blood-soaked handkerchief who brought a dying teenager through …
Scottish politics has been torn post-Brexit vote by much the same issues as the rest of Britain, with independence the key difference. It may well turn out that Scotland’s …
Ppresident Obama and Chancellor Merkel’s hopes of getting the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade deal finalised by December 2016 were dashed when it was revealed that EU and US …
Labour is pushing back against the neo-liberal tide, and Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election can ensure that process continues. The political agenda has been drifting steadily rightward for the best part …
The deaths of 262 miners in Belgium in 1956 still has resonance today as we contemplate the possible break-up of the EU. At 8.10am on Monday 8 August, the …
Jack Reed, a year 13 student at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury, reports ‘frustration, fear and foreboding’ for the generation that were denied a vote in the …
The emotions that led to the vote to leave the EU were bred amid the dying embers of the Cold War, writes Glyn Ford. Brexit’s deep causes were belligerence, arrogance …
Buses may be unfashionable, but they remain an important constituent of our social fabric, writes Trevor Hopper. There is some debate on whether Margaret Thatcher actually stated that a man …
John Holden steps into the quagmire of recent business scandals, and offers some suggestions for draining the bog. In recent months there have been widely reported cases of allegedly unseemly …
Kate Hudson reflects on Parliament’s decision to go ahead with Trident renewal. In July Parliament voted to replace Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system. Several hours of discussion resulted in an …
Martin Gostwick assesses the growing probability of Scotland holding a second independence referendum next year. Remain means Remain,” was First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s equally pithy response to the new Prime …
Can the first Black US President now be followed by the first woman? Ian Hernon reviews the momentous nomination of Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton made history by accepting the Democratic …
Throughout its history, Tribune has remained steadfast in three matters. First, and foremost, we are committed to Democratic Socialism and we believe that our country can be run in a …
Whatever the outcome of the Labour leadership contest, the party cannot – and perhaps should not – win a General Election, argues Mike Parker. Here is a question. How many …
The media have stoked up fear of immigration, writes Paul Donovan, and politicians of both parties have failed to handle the problem effectively. Lurid immigration front pages sell papers,” said …
Trevor Fisher reflects on lessons learned after his 50 years in the Labour Party The experience of more than half a century’s active membership of the Labour Party results …
Nicholas Costello reflects on what the UK’s vote to leave the EU could mean across Europe The vote for Britain to leave the EU is not the end of …
Those radical trade unionists of the extreme left who dragged an oh-so-patient and reasonable French President into the gutter of violent protest have marked “the bitter triumph of confrontation over …
We have a new Cabinet, but experts are warning that the problems of funding and staffing the NHS will continue to become more acute, writes James Douglas Three Parliamentary watchdogs …
Chris McLaughlin examines the battle for the heart and soul of the Labour party A senior Labour MP on his way to the ‘hustings’ at which the leadership candidates …
Labour Party members have let themselves down very badly of late. For over a decade they were admirable, demonstrating first class muteness and dumbness while their superiors got on with …
Love for sale Fancy a lunch with Theresa May at the upcoming Conservative Party in Birmingham? it will set you back £3,000 – the price per head under the shindig’s …
Next weekend the Tories will be heading for their conference in Birmingham. In every sense it should be a dismal gathering, thanks to the awful events of the last few …
Venal Vennells The Post Office’s annual report revealed a surge in the earnings of chief executive Paula Vennells, who is currently presiding over a programme of office closures and mass …
The UK Parliament boasts more ‘out’ LGBT members than any other parliament in the world. I was recently commissioned to interview some of them for the gay glossy magazine Pride …
The counter-revolution is in full swing. The African National Congress (ANC) is, in the words of our deputy president, at war with itself. The Cabinet too. The tight coterie around …
August 31 marked the end of an golden era in Brazil and its economic development. On that Wednesday afternoon, the Senate voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. After six years …
I t is time for the British and Irish Labour parties to merge and form a single all-island party now that the crown of socialist champion is slowly slipping from …
Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May have more in common politically than they might wish to acknowledge. In the Prime Minister’s case the greatest problem is the 17 million-plus Brexiteers champing …
Standing in line waiting to board the EasyJet flight to Gatwick I was feeling completely powerless and only the hands on the clock seemed to be moving, so I felt …
If a picture paints a thousand words then the stark marginalisation of Theresa May at the G20 summit in the Chinese industrial city of Hangzhou supplied enough copy for a …
Once again the NHS is said to be on the brink of a financial crisis. Once again we are told that our health service is “not sustainable” in its current …
As summer draws to a close and thoughts turn to the new political ‘season’, Tony Blair has admitted that he is baffled by the rise of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy …
Traditionally a knight was a person granted the title by a monarch leader for service, normally military, rendered to crown and country. Although it later acquired the bogus veneer of …
