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Campaigning for TUSC in Swansea, photo by Socialist Party Wales
11 May 2011
TUSC shows alternative to Con-Dem and Labour cuts
Roundup: 174 candidates, standing in 50 councils, contested the English local elections under the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) umbrella, polling over 25,000 votes...
Photo by Paul Mattsson
26 January 2011
Warning: Government health 'reforms' can seriously damage your health
'EQUITY AND Excellence: Liberating the NHS'... so benevolently named is the government's car crash of a health bill which is going through parliament, that frankly there should be a health warning attached to it! Jackie Grunsell writes.
Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS campaign councillor and Socialist Party member, photo Alison Hill
12 May 2010
Huddersfield elections: Forging a socialist campaigning tradition
In 2006, Jackie Grunsell was elected as a councillor with a big majority following a high profile campaign to stop NHS cuts in Huddersfield, writes Mike Forster.
21 April 2010
Colne Valley / Huddersfield: Kirklees' only fighting councillor
SOCIALIST PARTY member Jackie Grunsell was elected to Kirklees council in 2006 after a campaign to protect local health services...
Jackie Grunsell, GP and councillor, speaks at a Save Huddersfield NHS demonstration, photo Huddersfield SP
7 April 2010
Making an impact in Huddersfield
"IT'S A shame that they don't have a column on the voting paper that says 'none of the above' when you go to vote" was the comment of one voter who summed up the mood of hundreds of people we met on the Easter weekend of action in Huddersfield, writes Mike Forster.
Unison Local Government strike 16-17 July in London, photo Paul Mattsson
3 March 2010
Women will be at the fore in the fightback!
100th anniversary of International Women's Day: At the turn of the century some feminists celebrated a 'genderquake', the idea that women had finally achieved equality, writes Claire Laker-Mansfield, Sussex Socialist Students.
Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS campaign councillor and Socialist Party member, photo Alison Hill
30 September 2009
Organise action to save services: "Any managers of a public service who are not planning now on the basis that they will have substantially less money to spend in two year's time are living in cloud cuckoo land." These are the chilling words of the chief executive of the Audit Commission, writes Jackie Grunsell, Defend NHS councillor and Socialist Party member, Huddersfield.
28 January 2009
Socialist councillor opposes Tory plans for education privatisation
Last week's Kirklees council meeting brought in a new Liberal/Labour coalition administration after a vote of 'no confidence' in the ruling minority Tory cabinet took place, writes Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS councillor.
17 September 2008
PLANS TO close nine sub-post offices, vital local services, across the Huddersfield/ Colne Valley area are a hammer blow to these communities, Huddersfield Socialist Party members write.
18 August 2008
Sub-post office closures in Huddersfield protest meeting
The announcement of plans to close nine sub-post offices across Huddersfield and the Colne Valley area has come as a hammer blow to these communities...
2 July 2008
Feature: IT WILL be 60 years since the NHS was set up on 5 July this year, the crowning glory of the welfare state in Britain, with its promise of an equal, high quality, universal health care...
16 April 2008
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill: why all the controversy?
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill going through parliament at the moment is causing controversy...
16 April 2008
Health campaigners fight council cuts
Huddersfield: THE SOCIALIST Party in Huddersfield is now deep into its third straight year of election campaigning, writes A Huddersfield Socialist Party member.
27 September 2007
Local health services under private control
AN ARTICLE in the British Medical Journal by Professor Allyson Pollock and colleagues exposes the power that private contractors now have over health services... By Councillor Jackie Grunsell and Ian Slattery
10 May 2007
Huddersfield: Support for NHS campaign cuts across Labour lies
Despite failing to win a second councillor in Huddersfield's Crossland Moor and Netherton ward this year, Save Huddersfield NHS can feel proud of its efforts and the total of almost 1,200 votes we received....
3 May 2007
NHS cuts... privatisation... widening wealth gap
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Jackie Grunsell, Save Huddersfield NHS campaign councillor, photo Alison Hill |
3 May 2007
New Labour panics and resorts to lies
EVEN LABOUR'S newest recruits lie and cheat to secure their seats and that is not just in Whitehall but in Crosland Moor and Netherton ward, where Socialist Party member Ian Slattery is standing for the Save Huddersfield NHS...
3 May 2007
Yorkshire ISR and Socialist Students day of action
ISR and Socialist Students campaigners from Huddersfield, Wakefield, Leeds and Sheffield took part in a Huddersfield day of action to support Socialist Students and Socialist Party member Ian Slattery....
26 April 2007
Huddersfield: Fighting against NHS cuts and closures
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Ian Slattery, Huddersfield Save our NHS candidate |
19 April 2007
Young socialist standing for Save Huddersfield NHS
THE CAMPAIGN of Save Huddersfield NHS to elect a second fighting, socialist councillor has carried on from where it left off last year. ...
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