3 March 2021

Socialist Students conference

Socialist Students has remained the most organised student group across the country.

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3 March 2021

Teachers demand fighting union strategy

Socialist candidate for NEU deputy general secretary lays out clear programme

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3 March 2021

Labour surrenders to Tories in Devon

Devon County Council majority Tory group has passed a budget with a 4.99% rise in the council tax. This is the maximum allowed under government rules, and is a tax that hits those on low incomes.

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3 March 2021

Stop domestic abuse service closures in Brighton

Brighton and Hove council is removing funding from domestic abuse services at a time they are most needed

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3 March 2021

Public sector workers respond to the budget

"The financial outlook is volatile." This (under)statement, in Essex County Council's budget document for 2021, could be the strapline for the future of all local government services.

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28 February 2021

Socialist Students conference

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26 February 2021

Liverpool Labour meltdown

Thirty five years ago Liverpool's council was leading a mass movement against Thatcher's Tory government.

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24 February 2021

Johnson's 'road map' for schools: Act together to protect safety

- For a phased return based on infection rates not politicians' dates.

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24 February 2021

Tories admit guilt for asylum seeker neglect

Today I received a letter from the Home Secretary Priti Patel. The letter is a weak and pathetic attempt by the home secretary to deflect criticism away from her government's negligent policy

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24 February 2021

Socialist Students conference - postering

On Wednesday 17 February, Socialist Students organised a postering campaign through Selly Oak in Birmingham to advertise our upcoming online conference

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24 February 2021

W. Sussex children's centres on the chopping block

Conservative West Sussex County Council is planning to axe 32 children's centres and twelve youth centres

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24 February 2021

Liverpool Unite branch supports 'no cuts' budget strategy

On Friday 19 February, the branch meeting of Liverpool Unite union voted to refuse to endorse any of Labour's prospective Liverpool mayoral candidates

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24 February 2021

Save John Carroll Leisure Centre

John Carroll Leisure Centre, in the working-class Radford area of Nottingham, is threatened with closure in the latest £15.6m of cuts proposed by Nottingham Labour Council

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24 February 2021

Tories target universities in free speech shakedown

The government recently announced plans to introduce a 'Free Speech Champion' to the board of the Office for Students to regulate the approach to free speech on England's university campuses

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24 February 2021

"I'm here to fight for the future education of children in Hackney"

Teaching assistants (TAs) in Hackney, east London took strike action against redundancies on 10-12 February

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17 February 2021

Conference - Sunday 28 February

- discussing how a movement can be built to transform education and students' lives.

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17 February 2021

Southern new members meeting - a vivid illustration of the appetite for socialist ideas

Despite all the limitations of lockdown restrictions, local branches in the Southern and South East Region recruited well last year

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17 February 2021

The Socialist Inbox

Send your news, views and criticism, in not more than 150 words, to [email protected] - or if you're not online, PO Box 1398, Enfield EN1 9GT

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17 February 2021

Strike back for free education

This year, students have been shafted. We've been used as scapegoats by the government, treated as the personal piggy banks of the higher education sector, and many of us have been completely isolated

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17 February 2021

Hackney teaching assistants strike against cruel and unnecessary job cuts

Teaching assistants organised by general union Unite took to the streets on 10-12 February to picket against unnecessary forced redundancies.

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