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Labour History Research - Centre for research into labour history, with regularly updated links pages, research tools, guide to libraries and archive collections, as well as local studies of the development of the independent labour party and the council tenants movement.
Labour Research Department - Independent, trade union based research organization. LRD's publications Labour Research, Bargaining Report, Fact Service and LRD Booklets, along with its unique Enquiry Service provide a wealth of detailed information for supporting negotiations and campaigns. LRD also provides electronic services, such as a full-text publications database, to its affiliates via the Web.
Pluto Press - Publishers of left and labour books.
Cyber Picket Line - A UK-based web directory service for the international labour movement. Includes the World Directory of Trade Unions with links to over 1700 sites worldwide
Trade Union Friends of Palestine (TUFP) - Organisation aiming to build links between British trade unions and Palestinian unions and to build support for Palestinian rights.
Unions 21 - Organisation aiming to provide an 'open space' for discussion on the future of the trade union movement. Includes discussion documents and reports, newsletters and forthcoming events.
Action for Solidarity - News from the labour movement, campaigns to defend the welfare state and public services and has regular features on international issues of interest to trade unionists.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Other Organisations "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold The love we give away is the only love we keep. -- Elbert Hubbard Other Organisations Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Other Organisations "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Other Organisations If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Other Organisations Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Other Organisations "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell Other Organisations Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Other Organisations "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Other Organisations There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. -- Abigail Van Buren Other Organisations Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Other Organisations I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Other Organisations The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Other Organisations Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th Other Organisations It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Other Organisations The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Other Organisations Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. -- Anonymous Other Organisations When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre Other Organisations The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Other Organisations ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Other Organisations "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Other Organisations It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw Other Organisations
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