‘Go Wisconsin. You Are fighting For All Of Us’. So says Chicago trade unonist Clancy Segal in the Guardian today. And he is totally right. So appalling is the onslaught of capital on labour that even the police have joined the 600 protesters occupying the State Capitol building, while outside thousands of workers brave the […]
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Anna Chen and Jeff Beck A busy week included a proper old-school lig at Jeff Beck’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Party DVD launch, and helping to present pictures from my late father’s archive at the National Maritime Museum (more on that tomorrow). Thursday’s rock lig spectacular for the launch of Jeff Beck’s latest DVD was fun
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When I started to write this poem, I had in mind the startling image of a sleek well-oiled Philip Gould stepping out of a sliver limousine to attend a £600-a-head Labour dinner at the Grosvenor Hotel in Park Lane which was being picketed by us, the Socialist Alliance in its heyday. If it is the
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So it’s payoff time for Ramsay McClegg. The Tories have finally thrown a bone to their human shield allies in the form of a referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV), to take place on May 5th. In return for services rendered, the Lib Dems get a long-awaited shot at an electoral system that’s supposed to
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Har, har! Garbo speaks! Ed Miliband’s team have announced that Glorious Leader will be addressing the subject of Tory cuts at the TUC demo but will not march with the march in March. And Baroness Warsi has a fit like Linda Blair in full Exorcist mode with term-of-the-day, ‘deficit deniers’, flying 360 degrees. That’s some
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Anna and Labour’s Ian McCartney Ed Miliband ushering in the Chinese New Year of the Rabbit may not be an event a testosterony communications team might see yielding the best headlines, but I had a pleasant evening meeting him and other Labourites at the Portcullis House bash tonight (Thursday 9th February). About fifty UK Chinese
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