Boomers grew rich as their economies were financialised, turning them into 'mini capitalists' who cared more about asset prices than wages.
But the financial boom that made them wealthy was a one-off - and the next generation will never catch up.
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Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ adaptation strips the novel of its racial, regional, and class dynamics, producing an empty spectacle emblematic of the erasure of working-class voices from the arts.
This gets at a real limitation of the Gen X Left (guilty as charged) and the 2010s Left which is an unhealthy obsession with form over content.
A legacy of modernism which reflects the long retreat from politics to culture.
This was indeed a lot of fun
The 1970s vision for Newcastle United's new Brutalist East Stand at St. James' Park
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Once regarded as a utopian project, digitalisation is now letting Big Tech and superpower governments regulate the world in ominous new ways. Is rejecting the devices and technologies they control the only effective way to fight back?
A product of working-class Manchester and its second-generation Irish culture, Stone Roses bassist Mani — who has died aged 63 — was the ultimate team player, and an embodiment of socialist values in his life and art.
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Cheers!
Really loved putting this together with Chal, a true legend of the game
Radical British filmmaker Peter Watkins was briefly tipped by the BBC before The War Game made him a controversial pariah. But he persisted — and now, at 90, he is a hero of liberated, formally remarkable socialist art.
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The high modernism of Glasgow novelist Alexander Trocchi has often been overshadowed by his low living. At the centenary of his birth, can we discern a meaningful literary legacy beyond his associations with existentialism, Situationism and counterculture?
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Anarchist bricklayer Lucio Urtubia robbed banks to fund revolutionaries in Franco’s Spain, defrauding Citibank and getting away with it. Surely this is a story we’ve all been waiting for?
Huw Lemmey on a contentious autobiography by a Spanish leftist hero.
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Wow Robert, good to hear this! Eager to read the resulting book
The latest event I put on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social takes place in Newcastle this Saturday.
We have Owen Hatherley coming to @alphabettitheatre.bsky.social to discuss his new book for the latest @lortburnspecials.bsky.social.
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I put this night on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social.
Come and stroke your chin and drink loads of pints.
Attention North Easterners! These events put on by @pdkmitchell.bsky.social, @leighsus.bsky.social and @alexniven.bsky.social look great.
Young people are facing one of the toughest job markets in decades: there has been a 33 percent drop in graduate job listings compared to this time last year. Read Tribune staff writer Grace Blakeley on the cost of living crisis.
As our new issue, ‘Beyond Decline’, is released, Tribune editor Alex Niven argues collective hope is the antidote to societal despair and the key to recovering the soul of socialism.
#GreyLabour was (I think) first elaborated by Tribune's editor @alexniven.bsky.social in February 2024 - spot on Alex.
The latest article is behind a paywall, sorry, but you can read Alex's piece here:
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I’m in this! Spoke to Chal Ravens about newness in music 15 years on from Retromania, AirPods, the new Niontay album and other things, I’m really proud of how it came out
toot toot new tribune! i'm inside writing about philippa snow's excellent new book it's terrible the things i have to do to be me, which looks at the female celebrity as a monstrous magnifier of her civilian counterparts. buy a magazine!
Our new issue, Beyond Decline, will arrive on subscribers’ doorsteps this week.
Sneak preview: tribunemag.co.uk/issue/beyond...
A few weeks before Palestine Action was proscribed in Britain, anti-fascist French organisation Jeune Garde suffered a similar fate at the hands of the Macron government. Is Europe’s extreme centre trying to eradicate left activism? tribunemag.co.uk/2025/07/is-b...
Visionary Japanese sci-fi author Izumi Suzuki anticipated our present malaise decades ago, in writing that combines melancholy for the failure of sixties radicalism with scepticism about a world of ubiquitous screens.
As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.
The long-shuttered cottage forge is the last remnant of a remarkable industrial experiment, the legacy of which should be written in iron, but is barely known.
Paul Brown on Winlaton's claim as the foundation of the industrial revolution.
It is now several decades since the collapse of the British coal industry. But in Peterlee — a ‘left behind’ former mining town in County Durham — utopian dreams are being revived through a combination of grassroots creativity and public funding.
Ahead of this weekend's Durham Miners' Gala, I wrote about the birthplace of the working class for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social
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In a media landscape where nuanced political breakthroughs are often credited to ‘genius Svengalis’, spin doctor Morgan McSweeney has become the crown prince of Starmerism. But now his fragile empire is crumbling to dust.
