These are challenging times for the trade union movement with multi-pronged assaults on an almost daily basis and a government pushing through an ideological agenda. A recent report by industry training board CITB-ConstructionSkills predicted the loss of

A new exhibition celebrating the life of the Bristol man whose campaign led to Britain’s first Race Relations Act has opened at Bristol Record Office. The exhibition follows the life of civil rights champion Paul Stephenson OBE as a child brought up in c

The camera swept across of a row of middle-aged men in the directors' box – Ian Rush, Alan Hansen, Phil Thompson and Jan Molby. It says something for the cold, almost arrogant way they surveyed English football that the footballers around whom Kenny Dalg

http://social.un.org/coopsyear/ Former Chairman of the Meriden Workers' Co-op John Rosamond commented today that in these times of political enthusiasm for "responsible capitalism" individuals considering participation in such ventures would gain an in d

I have a problem. You see, when Ed Miliband says that the Tory-led government is taking up ‘back to the 1980s’, as he did in PMQs yesterday, I find it hard to get angry. Just to be clear – I lived through the 1980s, and hated what the Tories did. I joine

Janey Buchan, who died at the weekend, was not a professional politician as we now know them but an old-fashioned political activist of the kind who always had a cause to fight and never allowed herself to be put off by the possibility of defeat or failu