The Socialist 16 June 2010

Millionaire ministers savage public services

'Bloodbath budget' day protests and meetings

Comprehensive education under attack

Opposing 'Dickensian' academy schools in Waltham Forest

Come to the NSSN conference

Unison local government conference: Delegates face huge struggles

Northern Rock throws workers on the dole

Wales Unison: Socialist Party member elected

NHS Scotland - ConDemned to terminal decay

Southampton library staff strike to save jobs

Save the Big House

Labour leadership contest dominated by right wing

TUSC plans for future elections

BP's value plunges as oil spill worsens

Willetts approves tuition fees hike

Bloody Sunday report appears 38 years late

IDS's 'anti-poverty drive' attacks the poorest!

High speed trains and high priced fares

Why we don't back the Queen's pay claim

Fast news

Diary dates

Tower Hamlets: Jobs, homes and services - not the racist EDL!

Greece: A test bed for 'austerity' and resistance

Spain: Millions of public sector workers strike over brutal cuts

Portugal: Mobilisation against austerity reaches new level

Socialist Party Scotland launched at packed and inspiring meeting

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Wales Unison: Socialist Party member elected

Mark Evans, Socialist Party member and assistant branch secretary of Carmarthen County Unison branch, was recently elected onto Unison's Local Government Service Group Executive from Wales.

A Wales Unison member

This is a significant defeat for the right wing of the union in Wales. It also demonstrates that Unison members in Wales want a leadership that opposes all cuts not just in words but in deeds.

Mark Evans defeated the incumbent who had been on the executive since 1992!

Mark was elected on a clear programme of opposing all cuts, opposition to further privatisation and for taking back into public ownership services already privatised.

He also opposed the union giving any more money to New Labour.

Mark won with 2,552 votes, compared to 1,971 for the incumbent. This has come at a crucial time for Unison members in Wales and nationally. Members have clearly voted to mobilise to defend jobs and services.

The result also sends a clear message to the right wing that members do not support the witch-hunt in Unison against Socialist Party members.

It is a demonstration that the right wing's hold on Unison in Wales is weakening. In the coming battles to defend jobs and services, members will draw the inevitable conclusion that the old right wing leadership is not up to the job.

Other Socialist Party members elected onto Service Group executives are: Josie Nicholls (local government) and Steve Bell, Roger Davey and Adrian O'Malley (health).

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