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From The Socialist newspaper, 15 March 2012
Coventry: Fight for a socialist alternative
The Coventry Observer reports that: "Coventry City Council is in line to win an award for the way it has delivered budget cuts.
"The organisation, which has been forced to save millions of pounds in the last two years, is one of three nominated at the Improvement and Efficiency Awards later this month...
"Leader Councillor John Mutton said widespread government cuts meant facing up to difficult challenges in the coming years but added the programme had helped minimise their impact."
All he and the Labour council, elected to defend working class people against the Con-Dems' axe, can do is promise more cuts. He told the Observer: "As cuts bite even further we'll continue to deliver efficiencies in this way as much as we can, although it's clearly getting more challenging every year."
Dave Nellist, Socialist Party councillor has been a lone voice against cuts on Coventry council. He stands in the tradition of councillors who stand up for those who elected them - such as in Liverpool in the 1980s and Poplar in the 1920s.
See more on Dave and the Socialist Party's record in Coventry:
www.coventrysocialists.co.uk
Why I'm standing
"I work in the NHS with vulnerable people with mental health problems. I'm standing for TUSC in the local government elections because none of the major parties are willing to stand up and support public services, which will be incredibly damaging for the people that I work for and I want to give those people a voice."
Lesley Connors, Leeds
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In The Socialist 15 March 2012:
Socialist Party news and analysis
Fight the cuts - for a workers' alternative
Fight back against attacks on pensions
Socialist Party workplace news
International socialist news and analysis
Widespread fraud alleged as Putin wins presidential poll
Kazakhstan: Oilworkers' lawyer freed from prison
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
National demo needed to save our NHS
Liberals' 'democratic' conference
Fighting Con-Dem attacks on education
14 March - Socialist Students get a response
Library cash goes to supermarket bosses
Coventry: Fight for a socialist alternative
Socialist Party congress
Socialist Party Congress 10-12 March 2012
World developments show - capitalism is crisis
Britain: working class begins to 'rise like lions'
Building the Socialist Party: 'year of the branch'
Young, socialist and proud to be!
Reviews & readers' comments
'Westenders' - omnibus edition
The best of 'literary fiction'
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