5 December 2021

Waltham Forest Socialist Party: Standing no-cuts candidates in next year's elections

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1 December 2021

Higher education disputes

The impressive UK-wide turnouts in the USS and 'Four Fights' ballots indicate the anger.

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1 December 2021

Covid-19: New variant emerges but same old capitalist disease

New Covid-19 variants are inevitable but the threat to world health comes from profit-driven capitalism.

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1 December 2021

NHS Critical

Unions must lead fight for:
* 15% pay rise now
* End to privatisation
* Fully funded NHS and social care
Ambulances are already lining up outside of A&E, unable to discharge patients, even before the potential effects of the new Omicron Covid variant

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1 December 2021

After COP26: where next for the climate movement?

How is mass pressure going to be built to fight for the aspirations of the climate movement?

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1 December 2021

Welcome support for striking Scunthorpe scaffolders

Scunthorpe scaffolders, now in their ninth week of strike action, were given a huge boost by the visit of Unite general secretary Sharon Graham to the picket line at British Steel

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1 December 2021

Bulb bailed out, nationalise energy to solve price crisis

Britain's seventh-largest energy supplier, Bulb, has gone bust. It has been put into special administration amid the continuing disaster of the privatised energy sector. Bailed out by a government loan

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1 December 2021

Khan threatens further London transport cuts

"With time running out before TfL's [Transport for London] temporary emergency funding deal comes to an end on December 11, it is my duty as London mayor to sound the alarm." An alarm in the pages of the Financial Times, unfortunately, won't reach the ears of many Londoners

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1 December 2021

Kickstart scheme 'insufficient and flawed'

The National Audit Office has released its report into the government's 'Kickstart Scheme'. When it was first announced, the scheme aimed to create hundreds of thousands of high-quality six-month work

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1 December 2021

NHS workers - vote yes for action to win a decent pay rise

In reality, NHS workers have had a 20% pay cut over a decade of Tory governments. Our goodwill has been taken for granted, and many staff will stay over their time without pay to look after sick patients.

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1 December 2021

Education unions lead campaign against Leicester academisation

Staff at West Gate special school in Leicester, along with their supporters, turned out for a lobby of Leicester City Council on 25 November in protest at planned academisation

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1 December 2021

RMT strikes against abolition of night tube train operators

Imposed arrangements means more fatigue, more weekend working and threatens jobs: London Underground workers in the RMT union walked out across London on several tube lines on 26-27 November

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1 December 2021

South Yorkshire Stagecoach drivers strike against measly 1% pay offer

Stagecoach bosses in South Yorkshire have always tried to play off one depot against another, with different settlement dates and pay rates across Barnsley, Rotherham and the two Sheffield garages

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1 December 2021

Nottingham and Mansfield trade unions rally against cuts and for better pay

Nottingham and Mansfield Trades Union Council called a demonstration in Nottingham on 27 November on funding of services and public sector pay.

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1 December 2021

Oaks Park school strike ends following forced concessions

Oaks Park school strikers in east London were applauded back into work on 26 November by supporters, having concluded what is apparently the longest strike in the National Education Union's history

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1 December 2021

Building a political alternative to Tory and Labour cuts

Newham resists cuts: Newham Resists has agreed to campaign for a no-cuts, needs budget to show there is an alternative to the Labour council passing on Tory austerity. Newham Resists is a new coalition.

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1 December 2021

Stop the cuts to Uni arts funding

On 24 November, 60 people protested at the University of Bristol against government cuts to university arts funding. I spoke at the demonstration, representing Socialist Students.

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1 December 2021

Wales: The Labour-Plaid Cymru agreement - jam tomorrow, maybe

The agreement: Welsh Labour and Plaid Cymru have reached an agreement that will give the Welsh Labour government, led by Mark Drakeford, a working majority

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1 December 2021

Argentine elections see deepening polarisation

On 14 November, elections took place in Argentina in which the Peronist government led by President Alberto Fernández was the main loser

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1 December 2021

Staff and students unite against university bosses' attacks

Why I'm striking: The decision to go on strike is never an easy one. Every University and Colleges Union member that voted 'yes' to industrial action knows full well the impact our strike will have on students' education

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