22 September 2021

Hackney & Islington Socialist Party: Council budgets & People's Budgets

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22 September 2021

W Sussex 'disability tax' - protest not going away

Warrior Carers protested outside West Sussex County Hall on 15 September. We were protesting about the unfair client contribution, also known as the 'disability tax'.

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22 September 2021

Leeds taxi drivers and disabled passengers unite to fight station changes

The anger of taxi and private hire drivers at the Labour-run council is palpable. Socialist Party members joined drivers in the Unite union, disabled taxi users and Unite Community activists to protest

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15 September 2021

Carmarthenshire Unison: 'Recognise our union!'

Union members in Plaid Cymru-run Carmarthenshire Council, Wales, are demanding a Trade Union Recognition Agreement (TURA) at Cwm Environmental, which is wholly owned by the council.

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15 September 2021

Oaks Park school: Redbridge Labour council backs strike-breaking bullies

Illegal strike-breaking, a dossier of testimonials about management bullying, and victimisation of a union rep who fought for Covid safety

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15 September 2021

Fighting fund target reached: Help us continue to raise our banner and programme

At our recent Socialist Party national council (see socialistparty.org.uk) members were set the challenge of raising £5,000 to help reach our quarterly target of £25,000.

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15 September 2021

Social care plans: A sticking plaster instead of surgery

Social care has been in crisis for decades. Successive governments have deliberately diverted resources from care provision into the pockets of big business through privatisation. Despite the hype, Boris

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9 September 2021

West London Socialist Party: Report back from the Socialist Party national council

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8 September 2021

Bexley bin workers win big gains after six-week strike

Bexley bin workers in Unite have won improvements to pay and conditions

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8 September 2021

Socialist Party national council - members enthused by excellent in-person meeting

Socialist Party members had to wait 552 days from the last opportunity they had to meet up in person

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8 September 2021

Equity protest to save arts centre forces talks from Newham Council

Equity's protest to save theatre jobs at Stratford Circus arts centre was a big success. Around 50 joined a determined and positive rally on Saturday 28 August in Newham's historic Theatre Square.

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8 September 2021

End service cuts and care charges

Fight for free, public, adult social care: Tory-controlled West Sussex County Council (WSCC) is proposing to cut Adult Services by 50% from £10 million to £5 million per year

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8 September 2021

Schools funding crisis fails vulnerable children

Schools face a special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) funding crisis, a £1 billion shortfall in funding

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25 August 2021

Wales: Gearing up for 9 October youth marches

The Youth Fight for Jobs campaign has been relaunched, ready to fight the slew of job losses expected to come down the pipeline after the furlough scheme ends

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25 August 2021

UK hospitals in danger of collapse

The NHS is crumbling from decades of underinvestment. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, has its ceilings propped up with almost 200 steel props. Hinchingbrooke Hospital has set a weight

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25 August 2021

Lessons from Poplar 100 years on

This year marks 100 years since the victory of Poplar council against austerity and unemployment, led by fighting Labour councillors who mobilised a mass movement of the working class

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25 August 2021

Ealing by-election: Labour council has not opposed Tory cuts

Vote TUSC in Hobbayne on 16 September: The three main establishment parties take ordinary people for a ride. We need a new mass party that will give the working class a genuine political voice.

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25 August 2021

Councils declared climate emergency - now act like it!

With COP26 Glasgow looming ever closer, the spotlight is on the UK and whether its climate policies are fit to achieve 'net zero by 2050'

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11 August 2021

Fighting for a home for Nadia and homes for all

A major housing eviction crisis is looming as various pandemic lifelines are ended

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11 August 2021

Save Newham's theatres from Labour council cuts!

Join Equity's protest on Saturday 28 August: Big cuts to arts jobs and community cultural provision are threatening Stratford, east London. Performing arts union Equity is fighting the Labour council's attacks.

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