Category Archives: Labour Party

Bribing the private sector to invest isn’t working

By Michael Burke The British government has suggested it can resolve the investment strike and restore growth by offering guarantees to the private sector to undertake infrastructure investment. But the policy has already been branded a failure by the CBI … Continue reading

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Coming To A Cinema Near You – ‘The Spirit Of ’45’

The ‘Spirit Of 45’ is Ken Loach’s documentary about how the spirit of unity  buoyed the UK during the war years was carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society folowing the election of the 1945 Labour … Continue reading

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Revitalising ‘Social Europe’ with Commissioner László Andor and Frances O’Grady, TUC

The starting gun has been fired and we now know that a future Conservative government will begin negotiations to ‘repatriate powers relating to social and employment laws’. Regardless of whether other EU member states will actually allow Britain to bring … Continue reading

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US politics – Wither the Tea Party?

By Jim Hightower Author, Commentator, America’s Number One Populist  The once haughty Tea Party has been whittled down to only a nub of its former self, with only 8% of Americans now identifying themselves with the faction. And no wonder … Continue reading

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Why Labour needs a manufacturing strategy

Despite a last gasp improvement in manufacturing figures at the fag end of last year, after four years of austerity measures the UK economy flat-lined in 2012. Many analysts and commentators are already predicting this year will prove to be … Continue reading

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EU Socialists Call For Relaunch Of European Industry

The plenary session of the European Parliament has held a debate on how the European Union can help recover and restart industrial plants. At a time of low demand and with the threat of so many closures, the Socialists and Democrats called on … Continue reading

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Employment rights for shares – ‘unlikely that many will take up the offer’

By Jeff Salway of the Scotsman.com A scheme encouraging employees to relinquish certain rights in exchange for shares in their company gets underway in April. But the controversial plan comes with a tax promise that is far less attractive than … Continue reading

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McCluskey announces boost in organising work as Unite membership jumps by 50,000

Some good news! Unite the Union increased its membership during 2012 and Len McCluskey has announced that Unite will increase organising work this year. Despite a double-dip recession (and moving to a triple dip recession according to pundits) and the continual … Continue reading

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Campaign For Trade Union Freedom – Launch Rally – Full Line Up

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TUCs Frances O’Grady tells Euro unions: Don’t let the Prime Minister repatriate workers’ rights

Speaking later today (Monday) at a conference in Madrid, TUC General Secretary Frances O’Grady will appeal for the help of unions across Europe in persuading their governments to resist David Cameron’s attempt to ‘repatriate’ workers’ rights. Attending a meeting to mark 40 … Continue reading

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