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The new Trade Union and Socialist Coalition launched this week. Involved are some of the leading figures of the wildly successful* No2EU campaign which ran in the last Euro elections, and has decided to contest the forthcoming Westminster election on a left-wing and anti-Lisbon platform. One assumes that at some stage since the Euro elections they must have decided that adapting their name to No2UK was not such a great idea.

Anyhow. Here’s the funny thing. Their website, at www.tusc.org.uk is registered via a German company called 1und1 Internet Aktiengesellschaft. (This company offers products like “Hoch-performante Server”, “Flatrates für surfen” and “Homepage-Packete”, which suggest that the EU is already well on the way to having a single language as well as a single currency.)

So would that be an anti-EU party benefiting from the EU single market in goods and services?

Yes it would.

* Not

This week’s Tribune, on sale from Today in selected branches of WHSmith, and available by subscription features the latest from the British Airways strike, and a plea for better industrial journalism by veteran reporter Robert Taylor.

Also in this issue, Michael Meacher paints a grim picture of Britain under a Tory government, and, exclusive to the print edition, Paul Routledge asks whether Ed Balls could be the “Portillo moment” on election night.

On the website later this weekend, Neil Hodge will report on deaths in police custody and David Hencke writes about Uganda’s progress towards democracy.

Our Letters page, exclusive to the print edition, includes contributions by John Prescott and Liam Byrne.

Plus our culture section reviews the latest books and arts.

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