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1 March 2016
Meetings to mark International Women's Day
Should women vote for women?
1 March 2016
Tower Hamlets: Labour in cloud cuckoo land
Local residents, trade unionists and campaigners turned out to oppose cuts at Tower Hamlets council's budget setting meeting on 24 February
19 February 2016
North West Water pensions strike
GMB members gathered to picket and protest outside United Utilities' Warrington HQ at Lingley Mere, Great Sankey, in a protest over pensions
19 February 2016
Leicester: Workers unite to fight Samworth
Over 300 workers for 'food giant' Samworth Brothers packed a meeting in Leicester last Friday night to hear the response of BFAWU food workers' union to recent threats to their pay
16 February 2016
Socialist Party bulletin in Usdaw
11 February 2016
Doctors fight contract imposition - updated leaflet
10 February 2016
Demo in solidarity with Kurdish people: 6th March
10 February 2016
Coventry refuse workers take unofficial action
9 February 2016
Disabled woman harassed for bedroom tax
A press release from Waltham Forest Trade Union Council
8 February 2016
Oxford Unite's strike to defend children's centres
Unite members are taking strike action with a 83% mandate from the membership of the South East 6272 Community Youth Workers and Not for Profit branch
2 February 2016
Birmingham Small Heath school - lift NUT rep's suspension!
The academy threat to Small Heath school has been withdrawn, but NUT members are now having to take action for the reinstatement of NUT rep Simon O'Hara
29 January 2016
No-cuts petition to Lewisham council
Socialist Party members in Lewisham, south London, have successfully argued for the local Momentum group to register a no-cuts budget petition with the council.
22 January 2016
The TUSC national steering committee met this week and agreed a timetable and procedures to approve candidates for the English local council elections taking place on Thursday May 5th
19 January 2016
Anti-academy strike in Birmingham
NUT members at Small Heath school in Birmingham have started nine days of strike action (19-21 and 26-28 January and 2-4 February) against the threat to turn their school into an academy
18 January 2016
15 January 2016
Banner unfurled in Newcastle stadium
National Stop Stewards Network supporters in Newcastle displayed a banner in St James's Park stadium in Newcastle at a Manchester United match
13 January 2016
Spirits on Kent's EDF Energy picket line were kept very high by playing cat and mouse with the employer. Bosses assigned managers to follow the pickets - presumably to act as the most obvious bugging devices in the history of espionage.
5 January 2016
Junior doctors to strike in Jan & Feb
4 January 2016
Strike against downgrading by Leeds RMT
20 December 2015
An historic "turning point for the world". This is how US President Barack Obama and other top politicians referred to the 31-page climate agreement adopted by 196 governments in Paris.
20 December 2015
Swansea: Destruction of council services
A letter by Alec Thraves, Swansea Socialist Party, on council cuts in Swansea, that was printed in the South Wales Evening Post
18 December 2015
The following letter by Paul Callanan, London Socialist Party, has been carried by the London Evening Standard on 18.12.15
18 December 2015
Liverpool's mayor and confusion
The following letter was sent to the Liverpool Echo this week by Tony Mulhearn, in response to an attack by Mayor Joe Anderson
15 December 2015
Seattle: Union rights for taxi drivers
On 14 December 2015, Seattle City Council decided to provide a legal framework for drivers of taxis and transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft to form unions and bargain collectively for better wages and working conditions
11 December 2015
A letter has been published in the Independent on 11.12.15 from Waltham Forest Socialist Party member Nancy Taaffe on the call for re-selection of Labour MPs
11 December 2015
A school student responds to Michael Crick's denigration
Journalist Michael Crick, who once specialised in attacking Militant (now the Socialist Party), turned up this week with a film crew outside a café in Walthamstow
8 December 2015
Islington: Tech City academy NUT members take strike action
NUT members at Tech City academy in Islington, north London, are taking two days of strike action on 8 and 9 December and have planned a further three day strike in the following week
6 December 2015
Waltham Forest Socialist Party responds to attack by Jon Lansman
Waltham Forest Socialist Party members respond below to an article on the Left Futures website on 5 December, by Jon Lansman, a director of Momentum
4 December 2015
Open University strike - Leeds
3 December 2015
Hilary Benn's speech: demagogic and dishonest
The definition of a demagogue: 'a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular fears, desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
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