In this week’s Tribune, available by subscription or from selected branches of Borders:
Extraordinary rendition
EXCLUSIVE: The story of how the Central Intelligence Agency tried to kidnap a defector in Moscow
News
Labour Party funding – the union link is targeted again
CIA’s kidnap attempt and other shady operations
Top universities invest in the arms trade
Mercenaries in Iraq are getting away with murder
Austin Mitchell: Yvette Cooper drops a brick on housing policy
Features
Spotlights: Philippines coup was no scorcher; Put BAE in the dock
Nicholas Jones: What defence against right-wing internet attack dogs?
Neil Hodge: Another degree of separation for Palestinians
Nigel Nelson: Live and let diet – spooks’ tales at the dinner table
Comment
Chris Proctor: Advertisers get their Christmas claws into all of us
John Coulter: Northern Ireland needs a broad left front
Tribune editorial: Labour-union link must not be dismantled
Trevor Fisher: Exam policies fail to meet university challenge
David Mills: How Labour should raise and spend its cash
Letters, Oli Usher: ID cards – more information than they need to know
Cary Gee: HIV/AIDS is not a gay issue, it’s a human rights one
Arts & Books
David Winnick: Mother Russia’s farewell to communism
Ivor Gaber: Keeping track of railways – all points covered
Aleks Sierz: Trojan women and the total waste of war
Helen Chappell: Queen’s crazy little thing called love
