from the Morning Star Prime Minister Gordon Brown has risked a general election disaster by launching a vicious new attack on the pay of public-sector workers and civil servants. In a speech to City bigwigs, he promised a “tough approach” to pay right across the public sector for years ahead. His proposals would slash the living standards of

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the condition is the darkness in an animal’s skin, feathers, or fur is acquired by populations living in an industrial region where the environment is soot-darkened. It can be gene related It does, however, mean that the probability that

By Jon Cruddas and Jonathan Rutherford In the wake of the financial crash, the left has to create a new model of the individual living in society. But what now is the ethical relationship of individuals to one another and to society? The centre left has to refashion a politics that values the social goods that give

Many people, especially those above 35 living in Eastern Europe, still associate 8 March with the old official Communist celebrations, with faded red cloves and drunken men 'celebrating' Women's Day. But gradually the day, which symbolises female emancipation, has gained new legitimacy, a tour of the EurActiv network reveals.

Living in a three-way marginal, I get a bunch of election literature. The latest Lib Dem flyer caught my eye because it is the mirror image of the Tories vote yellow get Brown message: ‘In areas like this, the only way to get real change is to vote Liberal Democrat. Voting Conservative could just help Labour win again’ Leaving aside the fact that the London mayoral elections saw the To...

LABOUR have been accused of not living up to the values of the party's late leader Michael Foot.

Charlie Brooks insists that everyone not living in the country must pay for those who do. High-speed broadband will soon be as basic a requirement for rural Britain as decent roads. There can be no better use of public money than investing in this infrastructure, and in the process helping to save the

by Tony Greenstein As unemployment heads towards 3 million and the economy shows signs of heading towards a second recession or depression, the labour movement is starting to wake up from the years of New Labour and Thatcherite neo-liberalism. As Royal Bank of Scotland hands out £1.3 billion bonuses, people living on £64 a week JSA

The decision taken last year to let Rwanda join the Commonwealth means that Rwandan citizens living in the UK acquire the right to vote, including in Parliamentary elections. This change will (thanks to an amendment to the British Nationality Act 1981, adding Rwanda to the list of Commonwealth countries) will come in to force for elections from 10 March.

The UK government has been found guilty of putting two Iraqis at fear of execution over a number of years, in breach of their human rights.