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The government has dramatically stepped up its war on young working class people. Gordon Brown wants to force young mothers into "supervised homes" where they will be told "how to raise their children properly".

Kirsty Ann was 17 when she had her baby. She lives with her mother in Glasgow. Kirsty Ann spoke to Sadie Robinson about the reality of life as a teenage mother

What are your experiences of adults?

Tony Blair coined a famous phrase that would come to represent New Labour’s "realistic" approach to crime – "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime".

The French Resistance is often presented as a national liberation struggle. Both Communists and the followers of right wing General de Gaulle saw it as a nationalist movement against German occupation. It is only relatively recently that historians have written about the non-French fighters.

What will be the impact of the Sun newspaper publicly shifting its support away from the Labour Party?

The media have been gloating about the plight of the left in the wake of the German federal elections a fortnight ago. "A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of socialism’s slow collapse", announced the New York Times last week.

In 1868 Karl Marx wrote, "Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the female sex."

Why was the Die Linke election campaign so successful? What were the main issues that it raised?

Tram workers in Sheffield have voted to strike against a pay freeze. The Stagecoach Supertram workers are members of the Unite union. They voted by 135 to 15 for action up to and including a strike.

Members of the RMT on London Underground’s Victoria Line called off their 24-hour strike that was set to start at 9.30pm on Monday after a new agreement on new rosters was reached.

The RMT union called off a strike planned by control room staff on the Docklands Light Railway in London who were employed by Serco.