Tag: Jon Trickett

42-days: 1st test of Labour Party unity?

Peter Kenyon Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 03:05:37 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

MPs returned to Westminster today and already rumours are circulating about the 42-day detention provision of the Counter Terrorism Bill. I am not up to speed on the precise timetabling of remaining Parliamentary business. But I am aware this could be the first test of the Labour Party's new found unity.




Czech Social Democrat shadow foreign minister discussing US Missile Defence in London

BF Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 01:14:31 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

As the US faces increasing questions about its US Missile Defence programme in Poland and the Czech Republic, activists in London have an opportunity to hear from the Czech Social Democrats shadow foreign minister discuss growing opposition to a US Missile Defence radar base.



Who do we want for our General Secretary?

SocialDemocrat Thu Dec 06, 2007 at 09:40:35 AM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

The just published edition of the New Statesman carries a cover article by MPs Jon Trickett and Jon Cruddas which argues that the Labour Party needs to become more independent of the Parliamentary leadership and that a good place to start is the appointment of an automous general secretary, so who do Labour bloggers think that new general secretary should be?



German and Austrian Social Democrats oppose US Missile Defence

BF Tue Aug 28, 2007 at 05:06:27 PM GMT Print-friendly version Facebook

The Chair of the German SDP, Kurt Beck, has reaffirmed his opposition to US Missile Defence. Speaking at a meeting of the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) in Berlin this weekend he said his party remained strictly opposed to US plans for the stationing of any new kind of mid-range ballistic missiles - the US is planning to station interceptor missiles in Poland and make use of radar bases in Yorkshire and also in the Czech Republic.