Amina Lone says that Labour in places such as Manchester stands ready to resist as savage and unfair cuts are unleashed
Archive for January, 2011
Rockwell and good – you get what you see
By Emmanuel Cooper /Monday, January 31st, 2011Norman Rockwell’s America
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Stand up against autocracy and authoritarianism
By Claude Moraes /Monday, January 31st, 2011European media freedom is at stake on Hungary’s frontline, writes Claude Moraes
Claire French
By Claire French /Monday, January 31st, 2011In pursuit of liberty and in defence of it
Middle East peace envoy still has a thirst for war
By Stefan Simanowitz /Sunday, January 30th, 2011Stefan Simanowitz saw Tony Blair give a further account of himself
to the Iraq inquiry in London
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Cartoon by Alex Hughes. More at www.tribunecartoons.com
How to combat fascists and depression
By Cary Gee /Friday, January 28th, 2011Woody Sez – The Life and Music
of Woody Guthrie
Arts Theatre, London
Leaks reveal ground Palestinians were prepared to concede
By Bernard Purcell /Friday, January 28th, 2011A leak of 1,600 confidential position papers belonging to Palestinian Authority negotiators curiously embarrassed the PLO but also undermined Israel’s claims it has no “partner for peace” in the Mid-East political process.
Women lack rights, but Kurds’ way shows some progress
By Gary Kent /Friday, January 28th, 2011Small things speak volumes about a society. Positive vignettes from my fifth fact-finding mission in Iraqi Kurdistan include very low crime levels – shopkeepers leave their wares unguarded on the pavement overnight – and evidence that the beleaguered Christian minority in the rest of Iraq has been welcomed in their thousands here in Kurdistan. Women’s [...]
EU and Russia on opposite sides over Lukashenko’s fourth-term win
By Marcus Papadopoulos /Friday, January 28th, 2011Alexander Lukashenko, the long-serving leader of Belarus, was inaugurated on January 21 for a fourth term of office following his re-election late last year as president of the former Soviet republic, a strategically important country sandwiched between the European Union and the Russian Federation.