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Unions and students step up fight to save education

Alasdair Thompson 15 September 2011 Unions and students step up fight to save education2011-09-15T08:30:19+01:00 *Society* No Comment
The fight to save public education in the UK took a step forward this week as two more unions declared ballot results in favour of strike action this Autumn. Yesterday…
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Finding a sense of place: community, art and the UK riots.

Alasdair Thompson 24 August 2011 Finding a sense of place: community, art and the UK riots.2011-08-24T08:55:22+01:00 England & Wales 3 Comments
What is it that makes a community? We talk a lot about communities in political discourse but to what do we actually refer when we use the term? After the…
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Bernie Sanders on the US debt debacle.

Alasdair Thompson 31 July 2011 Bernie Sanders on the US debt debacle.2011-07-31T20:53:07+01:00 3 Comments
As the US Congress debates whether to accept a plan to cut $ in spending over 10 years, and raise not one cent in taxes on the rich, let's hear…
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Obama: Debt, Default and Betrayal

Alasdair Thompson 27 July 2011 Obama: Debt, Default and Betrayal2011-07-27T09:00:35+01:00 6 Comments
Last week Sunny told us that he was frustrated with people like Glenn Greenwald who think Obama is giving away too much in the current negotiations over the US debt…
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Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?

Alasdair Thompson 14 July 2011 Citoyens, vouliez-vous une révolution sans révolution?2011-07-14T09:00:19+01:00 1 Comment
There were two 'Reigns of Terror', if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted…
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250,000 people on benefits to lose access to free education.

Alasdair Thompson 8 July 2011 250,000 people on benefits to lose access to free education.2015-03-11T00:55:36+00:00 *Society* 7 Comments
If you want to be educated don't be poor, don't be from an ethnic minority, don't be disabled and don't be a woman. That's essentially the message from new research…
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Why I’m not Cheering the News of the World’s Demise.

Alasdair Thompson 7 July 2011 Why I’m not Cheering the News of the World’s Demise.2011-07-07T17:27:38+01:00 *Rights & Democracy* 9 Comments
So this Sunday's News Of The World will be the last, after over 150 years James Murdoch has announced that News International's biggest selling paper is to close. You'd think…
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Tory MEPs wreck vote to upgrade EU emissions targets.

Alasdair Thompson 5 July 2011 Tory MEPs wreck vote to upgrade EU emissions targets.2014-12-15T10:46:39+00:00 Environment No Comment
A report calling on the European commission to move "as soon as possible and before the end of 2011" to increase CO2 emissions reduction targets from 20% to 30% by…
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Don’t Scab!

Alasdair Thompson 30 June 2011 Don’t Scab!2011-06-30T08:00:43+01:00 England & Wales No Comment
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The Real Pensions Crisis: the Problem of Surplus Capital Absorption

Alasdair Thompson 29 June 2011 The Real Pensions Crisis: the Problem of Surplus Capital Absorption2011-06-29T18:00:04+01:00 4 Comments
We are told today that we face a crisis. People are living longer, there is a demographic timebomb and, coupled with need to bring down deficit, we have no choice…
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