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25 January 2012
Victory for POA: The European Court of Human Rights have accepted the prison officers' union application for restoration of trade union rights, writes Domenico Hill.
26 October 2011
Second strike on Monday at TV Licensing
TV Licensing workers employed by outsourcing giant Capita will walk out again next Monday, 31st October, as they step up their campaign of industrial action to win a fair pay rise...
14 September 2011
Bristol: Labour's short-lived valour
In May Bristol's ruling Liberal Democrats announced their intention to privatise the council's home care service, writes Robin Clapp.
7 September 2011
Bristol marches against home care sell-off
'Main political cliques all support privatisation': "Thank you, you are bloody marvellous," ended Bob Taylor's emotional speech at a Bristol rally on Saturday 3 September against the selling off of home care in the city
19 August 2011
Bristol Connexions staff take strike action
Staff from Connexions in Bristol took strike action last Thursday, joined by colleagues from across the former Avon area, in the face of attacks to pay and conditions
6 July 2011
30 June pension strike reports
The 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions was a historic event
15 June 2011
Winterbourne View - fight privatisation, end abuses
The multiple accounts of abuse being investigated at Winterbourne View private hospital near Bristol are sickening and upsetting. They show the reality of privatised health and social care services
8 June 2011
Vulnerable patients abused at privately run Bristol hospital
In a shocking exposé of Winterbourne View 'hospital' near Bristol, owned by Castlebeck, an undercover Panorama reporter Joe Casey filmed people with learning disabilities and autism being systematically abused by staff
27 April 2011
TUSC election challenge: vote socialist to stop the cuts
Round the country: Trade Unionists and Socialists Against Cuts (TUSC) candidates in Bristol are standing in 16 seats across Bristol in the local elections...
27 April 2011
Bristol 'Tesco riot' reveals anger
On Thursday night, 21 April, disturbances took place in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol when police clashed with anti-Tesco protesters and the local squatting community...
5 April 2011
Bristol meeting - The battle of our lives has begun
In the most inspiring public meeting since the launch of the anti-Poll Tax movement in Bristol in 1989, over 200 angry workers and young people discussed the need to step up the city's anti-cuts campaigning. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist.
Lewisham protest against cuts, photo by Chris Flood
23 February 2011
Opposing all cuts: Thousands march across England and Wales
What we think: Cuts-making councillors must be challenged:
Barclays Bank made £11.6 billion in profits in 2009 and paid just 1% of that in UK corporation tax...
Demonstration reports from Bristol, Hackney, Hillingdon, Shrewsbury, Waltham Forest, Lewisham and Rhondda Cynon Taff
26 January 2011
As Unemployment figures jumped again, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) civil servants in the PCS union were taking strike action to provide a decent service to claimants...
8 December 2010
30 November: student day of action on cuts and fees
London: Thousands of students marched again on 30 November, to protest as tuition fees were to be debated in parliament...
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