Tribune was founded in 1937 as a socialist journal to give voice to popular front movements against Europe's growing wave of fascism. For over eighty years, it has been at the centre of left-wing politics in the United Kingdom, with previous editors including labour movement titans such as Aneurin Bevan and Michael Foot. With the assistance of Jacobin, Tribune was revived as a print journal and online publication in 2018, and its new staff is dedicated to restoring this historic legacy on the British left.
The magazine publishes essays, reportage, and analysis on politics, economics, culture, and history from a socialist perspective, with a commitment to intellectual seriousness that honours the tradition from which it emerged. Tribune is not a campaign leaflet or a party organ. It is a journal of ideas — ideas about how the economy should work, how power should be distributed, and how society might be organised differently.
That a publication founded in the shadow of fascism remains relevant nearly nine decades later is a testament both to the persistence of the problems it was created to address and to the enduring need for a left-wing journal that takes ideas as seriously as it takes politics.