Issue No. 84 - Thursday, 7th May, 2009
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In the first in the series, Armando Iannucci warns of the dangers of spin and the road to war.
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Updates and new posts on UnionList.Org over the long weekend include:
Simon Woolley: "As I left the Spa auditorium on the Scarborough beach front the sun was still gloriously shining. I allowed myself a few moments of relaxation before setting back for London to think about how we set about mobilising a potential half a million Black Trade union members and the benefits that would bring to us all". Now let's mobilise black workers. Daniel Shears: "50,000 people. That’s how many people died in the UK from accidents on site, and on the roads; from the results of...
Happy May Day!
7million people in the UK are members of a trade union. That's a large proportion of the electorate and a huge number of Labour members.
Trade unions are the bedrock of our labour movement but too often are simply regarded, by some in the party, as a useful source of funding. Representing members on a daily basis I see first hand how badly honest, hard wording people need their unions. Despite the advances made by our party UK legislation is still weighted in favour of the employer and emloyees are struggle to understand their rights, never...
Issue No. 78 - Wednesday, 29th, 2009
COMMENT OF THE DAY
"A poll [on the leadership] would be interesting. I can't see Straw or Darling being a better alternative. If we were to change leader, which I'm not really sure we should, it would need to be a dramatic change otherwise there just wouldn't be any point. A 'big-tent' cabinet (MPs from across the party, Cruddas, Clarke, Field, Vaz maybe even McDonnell) would help get the whole party behind winning a 4th term. Maybe that would be an alternative to a leadership change."
Morys Ireland, on Brown facing...
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Issue No. 72 - Tuesday, 21st April, 2009
COMMENT OF THE DAY
"All this kind of post does is reinforce public perception that Labour are bereft of ideas and resorting to the politics of the playground. It feeds voter disillusion, and encourages people to despise politicians even more than they already do. Which - for those of us filled with horror at the prospect of a Conservative working majority, and who see the *potential* there could be for a socially-concerned government that refrains from doing evil - is seriously not good news."
Nick Weeks, on Time for an...
Issue No. 71 - Monday, 20th April, 2009
You will be the ones who do it COMMENT OF THE DAY
"You know what - my son worked on the Obama campaign (he's only 18) as a volunteer, and he was bowled over the enthusiasm and savvy of the young volunteers, their brilliant use of peer to peer networks, and their tireless campaigning. He arrived in PA in the run up to the election, and was immediately given reponsibility for out of state volunteers, and for the first time in his life he worked his a**e off. It...
Issue No.70 - Friday, 17th April, 2009 Saturday's Young Labour conference in Gillingham will be covered at #younglabour.
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Cat Smith says Young Labour is an opportunity to diversify the Labour Party.
Mariam Ridha says domestic violence is not just a plague that exists between a man and a woman.
Sam Tarry on how community organising against the BNP will rebuild the Labour movement from the bottom up.
David Green responds to Tom Copley's post on Faith Schools - and turns his fire on the Grammars.
Alex Baker on why student unions are...
Issue No. 67 - Tuesday, 14th April, 2009
Picking up the pieces - and building an online movement COMMENT OF THE DAY:
"Why, when faced with the avalanche of right wing unregulated filth in the blogosphere, do we have to thumb our 'bibles' and fight the good fight, when what we should be doing is wearing large boots and kicking the crap out of hyenas like Guido? Yep, I see the argument about taking the high road... and it is undoubtedly the case that this is a squalid game... but if the school bully hits you, you...
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