Archive for November, 2010
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, November 18th, 2010
Cartoon by Alex Hughes. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
A nation of injustice on the graveyard shift
By Aleks Sierz /Thursday, November 18th, 2010The Train Driver
Hampstead Theatre, London
Mary Rosser Hicks 1937-2010
By Michael Hicks /Thursday, November 18th, 2010Michael Hicks pays tribute to his late wife – a Morning Star, Communist Party and labour movement stalwart
Sinn Féin’s Adams makes surprise bid to win a Dáil seat
By John Coulter /Thursday, November 18th, 2010The surprise announcement by Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams at a leading republican commemoration that he intends to give up his seats at Westminster and Stormont to try for a seat in the Dáil is being compared to Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities
Cameron accused over midwives as evidence grows of NHS staff cuts
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, November 18th, 2010David Cameron this week refused to deny breaking a key Conservative pledge on NHS services after the Royal College of Midwives accused him of a U-turn on midwife numbers
Suu Kyi is free, but Burma is not
By Tribune Editorial /Thursday, November 18th, 2010No one under the age of 38 – half the population in Burma – had ever voted before the latest rigged poll by the ruling military junta
Make us an offer, unions tell councils
By René Lavanchy /Thursday, November 18th, 2010Unions are calling for a nationally agreed pay deal for council staff to go ahead next year as the number of local authorities unilaterally cutting pay and conditions grows
A guide to grassroots growth
By Vic Parks /Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Vic Parks has some suggestions on how the Labour leadership can engage with the party membership
Chris Proctor
By Chris Proctor /Wednesday, November 17th, 2010Hopes and pebbles dashed – health and safety gone too far?