Welcome to Labor Tribune

Labor Tribune aims to contribute to a renewal of socialist thought and practice in the labour movement. It is a resource for news, opinion and debate in the progressive and labour movements.

• Time for grassroots ALP action
  Summer Hill ALP reports on the rank and file meeting

• NSW rank and file resolves to fight
  Resolution passed by more than 170 ALP members on December 12

• ALP members: we've lost faith
  Report in the Sydney Morning Herald on rank and file revolt

• It's the system, stupid
  While executive salaries are an obscenity, they are a symptom, not the cause, of the financial crisis, writes Marcus Strom.

• Financial implosion and stagnation
  Monthly Review's John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff shed some light on the current crisis in world financial markets

• Is Marxism relevant to the labour movement?  Listen to Meredith Burgmann, Andrew West, Jack Mundey and Marcus Strom discuss the relevance of Marxist ideas.