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7 April 2010
Socialist Campaign launched in Coventry
The Socialist Party in Coventry officially launched its election campaign on 21 March, with well over 100 people cramming in to a meeting, writes Peter Chase.
31 March 2010
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition launch in Coventry
The Socialist Party in Coventry officially launched its election campaign on Sunday afternoon, with well over 100 people cramming in to the venue...
Dave Nellist at the Campaign for a New Workers' Party discussion forum at Socialism 2008, photo Paul Mattsson
17 March 2010
Coventry: Voters need socialist fighters - not service cutters
"You know Dave Nellist and the Socialists - they are the ones who stand up for people like us". This was the comment of a woman to her daughter at one of our recent campaign stalls, a sentiment that is more and more common among working class people across the city...
3 March 2010
Walsgrave hospital Coventry: Stop the parking charges rip-off
A RECENT Socialist Party organised meeting in Coventry protested at rip-off car parking charges at Walsgrave Hospital, writes Clive Dunkley, Coventry Socialist Party.
10 February 2010
Coventry youth workers' strike
Youth workers in Coventry were involved in a solid one day strike on 5 February. The CYWU Unite members held a rally outside the Council House to protest at the imposition of new contracts, writes Clive Dunkley, Coventry Socialist Party.
3 February 2010
Socialist councillors back school's protest
ON 20 January, for the second time in two months, over 50 parents came out to protest against horrendous conditions at John Gulson primary school in Foleshill, Coventry, writes Rob Windsor, Coventry Socialist Party councillor.
25 January 2010
Ticket office staff strike again
Members of the rail union TSSA walked out for a third time on 25 January as their dispute with Virgin Trains management continues...
19 January 2010
Virgin Trains ticket office workers walk out
Rail union TSSA members in Coventry were on strike on 15 January for the second time in as many weeks, as the dispute with Virgin Trains management continues...
13 January 2010
No to County Council cuts in Warwickshire!
A proposed council tax rise of 2.5 per cent, combined with job losses and cuts to frontline services were announced on 6 January by Warwickshire County Council, writes Kyly Wilson, Coventry and Warwickshire Youth Fight for Jobs.
6 January 2010
Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA), which represents ticket office staff within the rail industry, took strike action on 4 January as a result of a dispute with Virgin Trains management, writes Clive Dunkley, Coventry Socialist Party.
9 December 2009
Starting Socialist Students at a Coventry sixth form
Since October I've been running a Socialist Students branch at my sixth form. I decided to start organising meetings after seeing socialists running successful societies at universities, and also seeing...
18 November 2009
Ericsson closure condemned by Coventry socialist councillor
Ericsson announced on 10 November the axing of 700 workers and the closure of its research and development facility at Ansty, near Coventry...
On the picket line at Bitterne in Southampton, photo Rob Emery
3 November 2009
'Modernisation' means cuts: Support the postal workers' fightback
This dispute and the reasons for these strikes go all the way back to 2002 and the appointment of Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier as chairman and chief executive of Royal Mail, a Coventry postal worker writes.
Dave Nellist (2nd left) and Bob Crow (right) campaigning for an electoral alternative to the three main parties, photo D Carr
13 October 2009
The main parties say: 'Work until you drop'
Tory shadow chancellor George Osborne's plea for equality of sacrifice - "we're all in this together" - unravels when the real impact of his pension proposals becomes clear, writes Councillor Dave Nellist, Socialist Party, Coventry.
For working people, with only little or no access to a company pension, the state retirement pension is a wholly inadequate income - but it's one that Labour and Tories alike feel happy to steal.
23 September 2009
COVENTRY SOCIALIST Party councillor Dave Nellist has warned that council budget cuts for Coventry's leading homelessness charity will see more people sleeping rough in that city from next month...
15 September 2009
Coventry Socialist Party councillors show support for Vestas
Motion for full council meeting on Tuesday 15 September 2009: This motion forms part of the solidarity campaign. Socialist Party councillors and members fully support the Vestas workers' campaign, including stopping the blades leaving the factory. We intend to use...
22 July 2009
Youth fight for jobs fortnight of action
The government's latest unemployment figures show that, as expected, young people are still facing the brunt of job losses, writes Sean Figg, YFJ national organiser. Reports on the fortnight of action from around the country.
Thatcher was defeated on the issue of the poll tax, photo Militant
13 May 2009
Despite being "too young to remember the anti-poll tax battle", Bob Severn (The Socialist issue 578) rightly criticises the middle-class editors of a middle-class paper, the Independent, writes Rob Windsor, Socialist councillor and former anti-poll tax federation secretary, Coventry.
18 February 2009
Coventry: Hands off our youth services!
AROUND 400 people marched through Coventry last Saturday to protest against severe cuts by the Tory council in children's and young people's services. (see article in last week's The Socialist)...
11 February 2009
Youth workers, children's workers and play and community workers are organising a national march and rally in Coventry on Saturday 14 February, writes Teresa Chalcroft, Chair, Community and Youth Workers' Union / Unite, Warwickshire County Council.
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