24 February 2021

HMRC: Divisive pay deal leads to expulsions

PCS members in the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are voting on a pay deal. The deal is for a 13% pay increase over three years, but if agreed would put all staff onto a new contract

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10 February 2021

Preparing to build a working-class force for May's local elections

Over 550 attended the online conference of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) on 7 February in preparation for the local elections in May

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10 February 2021

PCS: Vote for rank-and-file socialist Broad Left Network candidates

PCS union elections: PCS, the union for civil service and public sector workers, has begun the 2021 elections for its president and national executive committee (NEC)

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27 January 2021

Unison NEC elections: United left challenge needed to fight slaughter of jobs and services

Just weeks after the general secretary election, Unison members are beginning the process of electing the union's national executive council (NEC), the lay members' leadership of the union

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28 October 2020

Under the microscope

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7 October 2020

Hugo Pierre's fighting programme to transform the union

Socialist Party member Hugo Pierre is a candidate in Unison's general secretary election

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5 August 2020

Unite union branch pledges to support socialist candidates who oppose cuts

The response by Tory Kent County Council to Covid-19 is to launch a public consultation entitled: "Have your say on Kent County Council's spending priorities and approach following the Covid-19 pandemic"

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20 July 2020

United Left general secretary hustings shows widest debate needed for left in Unite

In the vote following the hustings Steve Turner defeated fellow AGS Howard Beckett by 3 votes.

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12 February 2020

PCS union: Uniting the left around a leadership that can win for members

The 2020 national elections of the PCS, a union of civil servants and private sector workers on government contracts, are at a key stage. Branches throughout the union are meeting to agree nominations for president and national executive committee.

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29 January 2020

No 'blank cheque' for Labour leadership candidates

The nomination stage of the Labour leadership contest is in full swing, but without the enthusiasm within and beyond the party's rank and file that marked the surge behind Jeremy Corbyn

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29 January 2020

PCS union elections: Nominate candidates fighting austerity and for union democracy

When I stood to be general secretary nearly 10,000 PCS union members voted for my campaign, to rebuild a fighting democratic union.

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29 January 2020

Unite union nominates Long-Bailey and Burgon

The Unite union executive council overwhelmingly agreed to nominate Rebecca Long-Bailey and Richard Burgon as Labour Party leader and deputy leader respectively at its special meeting on Friday 24 January.

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15 January 2020

Labour Party leadership contest: Fight for a mass anti-austerity, workers' party with a socialist programme

The process to elect a new leader of the Labour Party is underway and poses an essential question. What will happen to the potential, opened up by Jeremy Corbyn's unexpected leadership victory in 2015, to win a mass party in the interests of the working class?

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8 January 2020

Labour leadership election

Commitment to socialist policies and democratic party needed.
The nomination process for the Labour Party's leadership and deputy leadership contests has begun, with the ballot to take place from 21 February to 2 April.

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23 October 2019

Enfield North Labour Party: Defend local democracy

Many Labour Party constituencies finally got the go-ahead to start the process of selecting their parliamentary candidate in September.

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25 September 2019

PCS NEC bypasses members on backing Labour candidates

Last week's decision by the leadership of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union to recommend to members in England and Wales that they vote for all Labour candidates without qualification in a future general election could prove to be a damaging mistake, coming hard on the heels of further moves against Jeremy Corbyn by the right-wing Blairites at this week's Labour Party conference.

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22 May 2019

Haringey: Socialists' stance fully vindicated

Barbara Blake was one of three right-wing Blairite Labour candidates to stand for the ward of Seven Sisters, Haringey, north London, during the 2018 council elections.

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1 May 2019

Local elections 2019: Time to stand up and fight the cuts!

Across England, 91% of schools are facing funding cuts. Education is being damaged by Tory austerity. Labour councils could prevent these cuts in their areas by allowing schools to run legal licensed deficits. Instead, Labour councils continue to enforce Tory cuts.

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3 April 2019

PCS elections: Support socialist candidates

National elections in the PCS civil servants' union start on 16 April and finish 9 May. They are for the national executive committee (NEC), which is elected annually, and the assistant general secretary (AGS) position - elected for a five-year term

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3 April 2019

Vote for socialist mayor and council candidates

Devastating 62% cuts in Leicester: In Leicester, spending on all council services, excluding social care, has been slashed by no less than 62% in ten years. This has had a devastating effect.

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