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1 day ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Nick Dearden

Last week Trump blinked. He paused reciprocal tariffs above 10% for all countries bar China. Then he exempted electronic goods coming out of China, including smart phones, the price of which was about to go through the roof for American consumers. Trump’s tariff policy has not yet been defeated. And it would be a mistake to read his backtrack as a sign that ‘the administration is coming to its senses.’ Tariffs remain a major part of Trump’s plan to restructure the world economy.

1 week ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Fergal Kinney

When John Lennon was murdered on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in December 1980, it was a tragedy that took place in that strange winter hinterland between the defeat of a Democratic presidential candidate and the inauguration of a Republican one. Ronald Reagan had just won a landslide victory over the beleaguered incumbent Jimmy Carter, whose 1977 inauguration Lennon and Ono had attended.

2 weeks ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Huw Lemmey

Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals by Maurice J. Casey is published by Footnote Press (2024). There is an apocryphal story that when asked by US diplomat Henry Kissinger in 1972 what he thought was the impact of the French Revolution, the Chinese premier Zhou Enlai replied that it was too early to say.

3 weeks ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Oscar Rickett

Close to Chingford Station in the suburbs of east London and along a path leading into Epping Forest, large iron gates stand at the entrance to Hawkwood Plant Nursery. Rows of fruit and vegetables are planted all around. Fields replete with raised beds and a forest garden provide the backdrop to a large glasshouse connected to a main building, from where the community food project Organic Lea is run.

1 month ago | tribunemag.co.uk | Rebecca Alexander

A fusion of polemic, anecdote, and theory, Ash Sarkar’s Minority Rule — her first published book — is a journey through the perilous frontierland of identity politics. Originally used as a way of conceptualising the oppression of individuals by way of race, gender, and sexuality, the identitarian creed has since been removed from its anti-capitalist roots, Sarkar argues, and used to justify the persistence of inequality and split the working class.