25 July 2018

Kentish Road victory: Respite centre saved by determined campaign

"This has not been the city council's finest hour", said Southampton Labour's new leader as he announced that Kentish Road Respite Centre is to be reopened. He apologised to all the families who use the centre for what they have been put through.

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6 July 2018

Pressure building on councillors to stop fire service cuts

Firefighters on Merseyside are resisting devastating cuts being implemented by the Labour-run fire authority

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20 June 2018

Knowsley council pushed back on cuts and privatisation

The right-wing Labour group in Knowsley council, Merseyside, has been forced into a climbdown on two important measures.

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20 June 2018

Leeds: Disability campaigners force council to retreat

Parents involved in the Disability Empowerment Action Links (Deal) group have pushed Leeds City Council into 'pausing' its plans to cut special education needs transport to over-16s.

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6 June 2018

Liverpool meeting remembers 47 councillors who fought and defeated Thatcher in 1980s

Three decades since the House of Lords surcharged the Liverpool 47 councillors, the Liverpool 47 group organised this event on 25 May in Liverpool city centre to remember the heroic anti-cuts struggle

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6 June 2018

West Midlands firefighters vote to strike in massive numbers

West Midlands firefighters have voted by 90% to take strike action against exploitative conditions for new fire service workers. They are being introduced by the Labour-led West Midlands Fire Authority (WMFA).

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25 May 2018

Action demanded from new council

In a fantastic show of unity, campaigners from across the spectrum of local issues came together

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23 May 2018

Victory: how school strike beat 'academy' privatisers

School workers in Newham, east London, stopped Avenue Primary School becoming a privately run 'academy' earlier this month

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9 May 2018

Obituary: Tony Byrne 1939 - 2018

The labour movement has suffered a blow by the death of our good comrade, ex-Liverpool city Labour councillor Tony Byrne.

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9 May 2018

Strong TUSC result in Huddersfield

In Huddersfield, with little time and scant resources, we chalked up almost 1,000 votes between us.

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9 May 2018

TUSC stands against Birmingham council's cuts and attacks on workers

On 1 May Birmingham Socialist Party held a successful public meeting about the local elections, the cuts and how councils can fight them.

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9 May 2018

TUSC vote up in Waltham Forest but many voters stay away

While campaigning in Waltham Forest, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) campaigners encountered rage among people suffering under the right-wing Labour council.

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9 May 2018

Haringey councillors need to fight austerity now

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in Haringey provided a glimpse of what a genuine anti-cuts socialist campaign would look like.

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9 May 2018

The Tusc results

The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) stood 111 council candidates in 33 authorities in the local elections, contesting 101 wards.

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6 May 2018

Keith Morrell, anti-cuts councillor, re-elected

Keith was re-elected on a landslide

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2 May 2018

TUSC stands against gentrification and cuts

"You've got my vote", is becoming a pleasingly common line

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2 May 2018

The Socialist inbox

Letters to the Socialist's editors including Liverpool 47 commemoration, Trotsky 1917, NHS tax and hairdressing.

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2 May 2018

Young people trapped in private rental

Housing costs force workers out of London: It's a tough time to be a young person in Britain. Almost two-fifths of Millennials, young people born by 2000, rent privately at 30

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27 April 2018

Labour councils

40) Another factor that could act to undermine support for Corbyn among a certain layer of the working class is the role of Labour where it is already in power: in numerous local authorities

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18 April 2018

Labour councillors could stop unsafe 'driver-only operation' tomorrow

Safety-critical staff are to be replaced with a bank of tiny TV screens in the driver's cab.

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