Archive for September, 2010

CND backs MPs’ stance on Trident renewal

By Keith Richmond /Friday, September 17th, 2010

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has welcomed a report into the Strategic Defence and Security Review by the House of Commons Defence Committee

Red and green: should it ever be seen?

By Daniel and Carl Whittall and Rowlands /Friday, September 17th, 2010

In the era of coalition government, should Labour be courting the Green Party as an ally on the left? Daniel Whittall and Carl Rowlands lay out the arguments

General Custer had energy, ambition, charisma and – above all – a desire to be remembered

By Nigel Nelson /Friday, September 17th, 2010

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn by Nathaniel Philbrick
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By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, September 17th, 2010

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Kevin Maguire

By Kevin Maguire /Friday, September 17th, 2010

Bogus self-employment victims deserve better

Labour MPs vote to elect Shadow Cabinet

By Keith Richmond /Friday, September 17th, 2010

Labour MPs have voted to resume the practice, in opposition, of electing the Shadow Cabinet

Knave Sarkozy plays the race card

By Claude Moraes /Friday, September 17th, 2010

Claude Moraes says the French President is making a scapegoat of some of the EU’s most vulnerable people

TUC to campaign against ‘anti-union laws’

By René Lavanchy /Friday, September 17th, 2010

The TUC has been mandated to support unions who take industrial action even if a court has ruled it unlawful

Public support wavers for cuts as TUC warns of effect on poor

By René Lavanchy /Friday, September 17th, 2010

The coalition Government’s cuts will hit the poor hardest, according to a report

Unions agree to joint action against cuts – but their tactics are still to be agreed

By René Lavanchy /Friday, September 17th, 2010

Union leaders have pledged to work together to deliver co-ordinated demonstrations and industrial action under the wing of the TUC this week