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  • 8 Mar 2011
    Fox's Armed Forces Bill neglects human rights

    Defence Secretary Liam Fox is pushing through an Armed Forces Bill that will make no meaningful changes to the armed forces. Fox and his allies use gung-ho rhetoric about "supporting our boys" while neglecting the human rights of forces personnel.

  • 15 Dec 2010
    Bulgarian Orthodox priests decide to join a trade union

    Bulgarian Orthodox priests have decided to to join a trade union because they have not received statutory entitlements and have not been paid on time.

  • 26 Oct 2010
    Guess the Daily Mail's latest scapegoat

    Scapegoating is central to the Daily Mail. But if you've not yet seen today's issue (26 October), I challenge you to pause for a moment and have a guess at which group of people they are demonising today.

  • 29 Sep 2010
    'Where did Green Ed go?' asks MP Caroline Lucas

    Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has attacked the new Labour leader Ed Miliband, suggesting he is failing to live up to his reputation as an environmentalist.

  • 26 Sep 2010
    My union did not tell me how to vote

    I had two votes in the Labour leadership election. One as a member of the Labour Party and one as a trade unionist.

  • 26 Sep 2010
    I'm no left-winger, says Ed Miliband

    The Labour Party's new leader Ed Miliband has moved quickly to emphasise his centrist views and to refute claims in the right-wing press that he is too left-wing.

  • 25 Aug 2010
    Take a minute to support Bangladeshi garment workers

    Two Bangladeshi garment workers have been arrested after campaigning for improvements in working conditions. Kalpona Akter and Babul Ahkter have worked with countless workers in their own country and ethical fashion promoters in Britain.

  • 11 Aug 2010
    Cuts are fatal for jobs and society, says Scottish TUC

    The rise in overall and long-term unemployment in Scotland will be worsened if the government goes ahead with immediate and deep cuts.

  • 3 Jun 2010
    Equal opportunities are not good enough, says Hattersley

    The former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley has insisted that meritocracy and equal opportunities are not sufficient to achieve a just society. He called for economic equality instead.

  • 20 May 2010
    Clegg should speak up for legitimate trade union freedoms

    Amid all the debate on our individual and collective freedoms and the manner in which the coalition will address such matters as the retention of DNA, the refusal to send those accused of terrorist ac