Bhaskar Sunkara, the founder of US magazine Jacobin, introduced the relaunched edition of Tribune last week at The World Transformed, a conference hosted by pro-Jeremy Corbyn activist group Momentum. Sunkara bought Tribune in May using profits from Jacobin, after Blackpool FC owner Owen Oyston filed for bankruptcy and was forced to stop publishing the title in January. Tribune magazine dates back to the 1930s when it was founded by Labour Party MPs Sir Stafford Cripps and George Strauss. The relaunched edition of Tribune had around 1,500 subscribers prior to its launch last week. "To some extent people have a point in what they're saying - that their vision of Tribune, the Tribune of the late 80s perhaps, or they'll read a part of Orwell's writing in his later career, and they say this is obviously not befitting." Tribune has recently received criticism from former writers who say they had kept the magazine running during its struggles to stay afloat. "While we appreciate all of those who have contributed to Tribune over many years, the claim in this instance that their stewardship of the project in the last three years 'made it possible' for Jacobin to take over the magazine is entirely false," he added. Read more