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It's done. Yesterday a special conference of the National Shop Stewards Network voted by 305 to 89 to set up yet another anti-cuts camp...

In the comments on the recent Ed Balls post ( below ), Modernity asks "Why is it that ex-Trots in the Labour Party seem to dance aroun...

I never believed Ed Miliband was going to lead the Labour Party into a glorious socialist future, but I was disappointed when Alan Johnson w...

Press release and statement of conference aims. I'll be going, are you? North Staffs Against Cuts Press Release 17/01/2011 North Staf...

Many thanks to Brian of Mindful Pleasures for doing some cyber archaeology and digging this out of a rusty late 20th century server (his bl...

There are moments when history speeds up, when mighty events are compressed into and play themselves out over a matter of hours and days. So...

I might be late to the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election commentary party, but there's something I'd like to add about the tur...

Guest post by Lawrence Shaw, NUJ Assistant Organiser (North and Midlands of England). Personal capacity. Does anyone recall the momentous ...

Blogging might be a touch slower this week, what with having to work and showing my face at a couple of evening events. So I thought I'd...

Hard right demagogue Glenn Beck has come under sustained fire in the aftermath of the Arizona shootings . Along with the Ann Coulters, the ...