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1 February 2012
Save Derbyshire youth services!
On the afternoon of Monday 30 January over 100 people held a rally and march in Chesterfield before the first consultation meeting into the future of youth services in Derbyshire, writes Becci Heagney.
6 April 2011
Austerity measures take away the basics
Opened in 1983, Derbyshire Unemployed Workers' Centres, where I am training as an adviser, provide welfare rights and debt advice to some of Derbyshire's most deprived communities, writes Karen Seymour.
Protest against the BNP's 'festival of hate', photo Jim Reaves
7 July 2010
BNP forced to abandon its 'festival of hate'
THE RACIST British National Party (BNP) has been forced to call off its annual Red, White and Blue 'festival of hate' which usually takes place in Codnor, Derbyshire, writes Pete Watson,.
Protest against the BNP, photo Jim Reaves
20 August 2009
March shows growing opposition to far right BNP
AROUND 1,500 marchers turned out to protest against the far-right racist BNP's "festival" in Derbyshire on 15 August. They made it clear that the BNP have no solutions to the problems faced by working people, writes Naomi Byron.
22 July 2009
Stop the BNP's 'festival' of hate
Join the national protest and mass picket against the BNP's 'Red, White and Blue festival' on Saturday 15 August. At Codnor market place, Codnor, Derbyshire. Rally from 11am, march at 12 noon...
16 July 2008
Notts campaign against the racist BNP grows
Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP campaign was set up about a year ago, after the election of a BNP councillor (subsequently expelled from the BNP) onto Broxtowe Borough Council in May 2007, writes Ben Robinson.
18 June 2008
Protest at BNP 'hate festival'
THE FAR right racist British National Party (BNP) are planning a 'festival of hate' (the Red White and Blue festival) on 16 August in Denby near the Notts/Derbyshire border, writes By Nottingham and Derby anti-BNP campaigners.
14 September 2006
NHS Logistics workers vote to strike against privatisation
UNISON MEMBERS at the NHS Logistics (NHSL) depot in Alfreton, Derbyshire, are delighted with the result of our strike ballot against the sell-off to DHL, writes Brian Loader, NHSL National Staff Side Secretary, personal capacity.
7 September 2006
Campaign defeats GP services sell-off
Derbyshire: A LOCAL pensioner in Derbyshire, Pam Smith, has won her appeal to stop the US's biggest healthcare corporation from running her local GP surgery in the village of Langwith (for more details see the socialist 18-24 May 2006), writes Jon Dale, Bolsover Socialist Party.
9 February 2006
NHS - hands off our GP services!
PRIVATISATION OF General Practice is Labour's latest act of destruction of the NHS. In the former North Derbyshire coalfield and inner-city Derby, two General Practices are being put out to tender. The giant US company, United...
12 May 2005
Big vote for socialism in Bolsover
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE candidate Jon Dale received nearly 26% of the vote standing in the Bolsover SW and Scarcliffe division of Derbyshire county council...
22 January 2005
Fighting the polluters in Bolsover: THE BOLSOVER area of North Derbyshire was one of the most polluted in Britain...
2 October 2004
Industrial Action Threatened Over Council Pensions
THE GOVERNMENT has reneged on another 'commitment' given union leaders in the 'Warwick deal', this time over pensions...
29 September 2000
Biwaters workers fight closure
THE BATTLE to save 700 jobs at Biwaters pipe works in Clay Cross, is getting underway. Since the takeover of the company by multinational Saint Gobain, with closure announced 45 minutes later, trade unionists,...
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