Glad to finally sit down with latest issue of Tribune. Insightful piece by Arthur Scargill - brilliant to read Larkin & Connolly are his heroes - “I can’t spell the word compromise; I never have.” 📕☕️

Also welcome to see review of Roland Philipps’ Casement biography 👏

Author Grace Blakeley will be on the panel #bbcqt

Andy Beckett's new book tracks the journey of Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell — under the influence of Tony Benn — from Labour outcasts to their attempt to remake British capitalism. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/labour…

“When the British media is at its least curious, and when the Labour mainstream is acting at its most invulnerable, it has consequences. Options begin to exist. Nobody notices it, but funny things begin to happen.”

We should all be grateful for this excellent, much-needed piece

Labour’s newest MP has an astonishing record: defending convicted sex offenders and attacking everyone from refugees to Marcus Rashford. Natalie Elphicke’s defection doesn’t show her principles have changed but that Labour has abandoned theirs. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/the-to…

Great to have Diarmaid Kelliher in the latest Tribune. His book is a must read!

The second of my pieces in the new issue of Tribune, on international working-class solidarity with the 1984-5 miners' strike: from Australia to Calais, the Donbas coalfield to the apartheid Witwatersrand, & from South Asian diaspora & Chilean exile communities in the UK

New issue of Tribune has reached Glasgow, & it looks like a great one.

My article is on the suport movement for the 84-5 miners' strike, & what it teaches us about solidarity.

If you enjoy that & want to read another 100,000 words on the topic: routledge.com/Making-Culture…

Always good to get a new copy of Tribune in the post. Even better when you open it to find an article from local comrade and activist Diarmaid Kelliher - a great article about the miners' strike written as if he was there, when he's clearly way too young!

reviewed Andy Beckett's The Searchers for Tribune tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/labour…

Andy Beckett's new book tracks the journey of Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone and John McDonnell — under the influence of Tony Benn — from Labour outcasts to their attempt to remake British capitalism. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/labour…

Labour’s newest MP has an astonishing record: defending convicted sex offenders and attacking everyone from refugees to Marcus Rashford. Natalie Elphicke’s defection doesn’t show her principles have changed but that Labour has abandoned theirs. tribunemag.co.uk/2024/05/the-to…

Looking forward to reading the latest issue of Tribune!

If you don't already subscribe, it's only £10 for a full year in print (4 issues). Amazing value.
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Snippet from our event in Glasgow discussing South Asian political activism, why the Sheffield Asian Youth Movement supported striking miners at Orgreave and how racist attacks did not occur in a vacuum.

On BBC Radio 2 earlier explaining why the Government's anti-strikes legislation was never going to work and why many workers taking strike action maintain public support.

It has arrived, and it is a thing of beauty. A couple of years back, I had the pleasure of interviewing Anne Scargill and Betty Cook, two of my heroes. In this piece, I have been able to share some of that (2-hour!) meeting - as well as several other interviews.

Latest edition of Tribune featuring Arthur Scargill 👇

got my issue of Tribune today. love this article about the role women played in the miner’s strikes, something Im really glad is starting to get the attention it deserves.

Great read this 👇

#MinersStrike Tribune

Nearing the end of WWII, armed forces stationed in Egypt established their own parliament to demand a socialist transformation of Britain's economy. On VE Day, we republish an article from a ‘Minister’ of the Cairo Forces Parliament. tribunemag.co.uk/2023/05/the-tr…