Tribune (magazine)

Tribune is a democratic socialist weekly, currently a magazine though in the past more often a newspaper, published in London.

Origins

Tribune was set up in early 1937 by two rich left-wing Labour MPs, Stafford Cripps and George Strauss, to back the Unity Campaign, an attempt to secure an anti-fascist United Front between the Labour Party and socialist parties to its left which involved Cripps's (Labour-affiliated) Socialist League, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Related Topics:
Stafford Cripps - George Strauss - Unity Campaign - United Front - Socialist League - Independent Labour Party - Communist Party of Great Britain

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The paper's first editor was William Mellor, and its journalists included Michael Foot and Barbara Betts (later Barbara Castle). As well as Cripps and Strauss, the board comprised the Labour MPs Aneurin Bevan and Ellen Wilkinson, Harold Laski and Victor Gollancz of the Left Book Club, Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the CPGB, Fenner Brockway of the ILP and the veteran left-wing journalist and former-ILPer H. N. Brailsford.

Related Topics:
William Mellor - Michael Foot - Barbara Castle - Aneurin Bevan - Ellen Wilkinson - Harold Laski - Victor Gollancz - Left Book Club - Harry Pollitt - Fenner Brockway - H. N. Brailsford

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Mellor was fired in 1938 for refusing to adopt a new CP policy of backing a Popular Front, including non-socialist parties, against fascism and appeasement; Foot resigned in solidarity. Mellor was succeeded by the reliably pro-communist H. J. Hartshorn.

Related Topics:
Popular Front - H. J. Hartshorn

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