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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 8d

I put this night on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social.

Come and stroke your chin and drink loads of pints.

Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · 8d

LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3

Featuring OWEN HATHERLEY, ANDREW HANKINSON, KATE LISTON and music from BEN LOWES-SMITH

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7PM

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MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN

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BenW @s-w-s-l.bsky.social · 7d

Attention North Easterners! These events put on by @pdkmitchell.bsky.social, @leighsus.bsky.social and @alexniven.bsky.social look great.

Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · 8d

LORT BURN SPECIALS: 3

Featuring OWEN HATHERLEY, ANDREW HANKINSON, KATE LISTON and music from BEN LOWES-SMITH

SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 7PM

@alphabettitheatre.bsky.social

MAKE NEWCASTLE MITTELEUROPA AGAIN

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

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.

The Great Living Squeeze

A sense of malaise among younger generations is backed up by hard economic statistics speaking of a drastic decline in living standards. How can we overhaul the individualist non-society responsible…

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 16

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.

The War Against Decline

If it feels as though we’re living through a time of decline, that’s partly because social disintegration has been the whole point of mainstream politics for decades. But as the writing in the new…

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · Aug 15

#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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Grey Labour vs. the Working Class

Late 2020s British culture is dominated by an oppressive mix of boredom and quiet violence. Meanwhile, working-class forms of expression are aggressively marginalised by a decaying bourgeoisie.

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Liam Inscoe-Jones @liaminscoejones.bsky.social · Aug 15

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

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our new issue, Beyond Decline, will arrive on subscribers’ doorsteps this week.

Sneak preview: tribunemag.co.uk/issue/beyond...

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · Aug 15

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!

Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our new issue, Beyond Decline, will arrive on subscribers’ doorsteps this week.

Sneak preview: tribunemag.co.uk/issue/beyond...

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our new issue, Beyond Decline, will arrive on subscribers’ doorsteps this week.

Sneak preview: tribunemag.co.uk/issue/beyond...

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 18

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...

Is Banning Left Protest the New Normal?

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 tr...

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 14

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.

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…

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 11

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.

DMG 2025: Communism in the Coalfields

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…

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 9

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.

DMG 2025: Birthplace of the Working Class

In the first of a series of pieces leading up to Saturday’s Durham Miners’ Gala, we examine a forgotten corner of County Durham with a strong claim to be the one of the global birthplaces of the…

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 10

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.

DMG 2025: A New Career in a New Town

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…

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Paul Brown @paulbrownuk.bsky.social · Jul 10

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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DMG 2025: Birthplace of the Working Class

In the first of a series of pieces leading up to Saturday’s Durham Miners’ Gala, we examine a forgotten corner of County Durham with a strong claim to be the one of the global birthplaces of the indus...

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jul 8

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.

McSweeney’s Death Rattle

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…

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · Jul 2

The next edition of the semi-regular culture night I put on with @alexniven.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social is only two days away and tickets are flying out.

I'll be asking @garethdennis.uk all about trains!

Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social · Jul 1

STRIKE AT THE ENEMY WITH TRANSPORT!

LORT BURN SPECIALS

NEWCASTLE 07.04.2025

GARETH DENNIS
YARA RODRIGUES FOWLER
LYNDSEY EYRE
JAKE TRELEASE
LUCY VALENTINE

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · Jun 29

My interview with @alexniven.bsky.social for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social earlier this year talking #WorkandPlay

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Dave Proudlove: ‘Three Figures to Watch Fulham? Come on Lads’

A new book about grassroots football and its industrial past sheds light on neglected spaces of working-class experience. Tribune sat down with its author Dave Proudlove to talk gentrification, escapi...

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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social · Jun 27

As Oasis embarks on their 2025 reunion tour, @alexniven.bsky.social looks back to where it all began.

Definitely Maybe check it out: bit.ly/3ZSeDud 💙📚

#MusicSky @3313books.bsky.social @bloomsburymus.bsky.social

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 25

As the government slashes social security provision for the vulnerable, Rachel Reeves wants to relax her clampdown on ‘non-dom’ loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Nothing better illustrates how Labour has abandoned ordinary people to become ‘capital’s B-team’.

Labour Loves the Super-Rich

As the government slashes social security provision for the vulnerable, Rachel Reeves wants to relax her clampdown on ‘non-dom’ loopholes for the ultra-wealthy. Nothing better illustrates how Labour…

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 23

As the government designates Palestine Action a 'terrorist' group, @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social argues that MPs wouldn’t be here without the right to protest – and that this authoritarian crackdown must end now.

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Jeremy Corbyn: MPs Exist Because of Protest

As the government designates Palestine Action a 'terrorist' group, Jeremy Corbyn argues that MPs wouldn’t be here without the right to protest – and that this authoritarian crackdown must end now.

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 21

The government’s move to ban Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act is due to their effectiveness in disrupting genocide — and erodes the basis for dissent that all democratic societies need.

An attack on Palestine Action is an attack on you.

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An Attack on Palestine Action is an Attack on You

The government’s move to ban Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act is due to their effectiveness in disrupting genocide — and erodes the basis for dissent that all democratic societies need.

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 19

While news headlines are increasingly dominated by the nuclear face-off between Israel, Iran, and the US, life remains hellish for displaced families clinging on to the edge of the Gaza City shoreline. Who will speak for them?

Gaza is Still Burning

While news headlines are increasingly dominated by the nuclear face-off between Israel, Iran, and the US, life remains hellish for displaced families clinging on to the edge of the Gaza City…

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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · Jun 18

After fifty years of neoliberalism, smaller British cities have some of the worst life prospects in Western Europe. Does a case study of one of them offer any clues about how to challenge uneven development and reverse postindustrial decline?

Whatever Happened to the Postindustrial City?

After fifty years of neoliberalism, smaller British cities have some of the worst life prospects in Western Europe. Does a case study of one of them offer any clues about how to challenge uneven…

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Anna Doble @annadoble.bsky.social · Jun 17

Oasis back. Pulp back. Blur, already been back and gone again... But is Britpop still a dirty word?

Tomorrow: Join me @foylesforbooks.bsky.social with @alexniven.bsky.social & Jane Savidge on their @333books.bsky.social on Definitely Maybe and This is Hardcore 👇

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