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18 February 2013
Carlisle: Demands to 'tax the rich' hit a nerve
"Tax avoidance isn't illegal, I do it every year" said the leader of Cumbria council
14 February 2013
After a merry-go-round of cuts advocates, councillors Don Thomas and Keith Morrell moved an alternative
Photo Senan
13 February 2013
Mid Staffs hospital scandal: Big business culture kills
The government will smear the reputation of the NHS to boost its privatisation agenda. But its own policies - and Labour's - caused the breakdown of care at Mid Staffs hospital
Manchester central library construction site, protest against blacklisting, Feb 2012 , photo Hugh Caffrey
13 February 2013
Smash the blacklist - not the unions!
The recent scandal around blacklisting in the construction industry once again highlights the ruthless steps employers are willing to take in order to undermine hard-won terms and conditions at work and attack union organisation.
Huge anti-war demonstration in London in 2003, photo Paul Mattsson
13 February 2013
15 February 2003: A million on the streets to stop the war
10th anniversary: It was the day that shook the world. From cold, grey, sub-zero London to sunny Sydney, a vast tide of humanity marched in every continent in the most momentous display of mass solidarity ever seen
12 February 2013
Double-take at Keegan's description of Kinnock
I took a double-take at William Keegan's description of Neil Kinnock as possessing 'courage and clout' to 'detoxify' his party (Observer 10.2.13), writes Tony Mulhearn
11 February 2013
Salford meeting tells councillors to reject cuts
At a meeting called by Salford against Cuts 60 people heard the case against cuts to vital frontline services put by staff and service users, writes Matt Kilsby, Salford Socialist Party.
7 February 2013
Hundreds lobby Birmingham Labour council
About 200 people braved freezing temperatures to lobby Birmingham council Labour Group on Monday 4 February against the massive cuts they are proposing...
Photo Paul Mattsson
6 February 2013
Organised fightback needed to save council services
"Multiple failures" is how the government's own financial watchdog has described the crisis facing council budgets across the country, writes Nick Chaffey
6 February 2013
Attempts to force Unison branches to affiliate to Labour
The article by Andy Bentley in issue 750 of the Socialist 'There is an alternative to cuts!' was spot on, writes a West Midlands Unison activist.
Thousands of workers, students and anti-cuts campaigners marched through Cardiff on Saturday 5 March to tell visiting Con Dems we don't accept your cuts, photo Paul Mattsson
6 February 2013
Brutal cuts announced in Cardiff
Last May voters in Cardiff turned out in massive numbers to throw out a council run by a coalition of Liberal Democrat and Plaid Cymru councillors beginning to implement the cuts demanded by the Con-Dem government, writes Andrew Price, Cardiff Against the Cuts.
6 February 2013
Labour cuts better than Tory ones?
At a recent Unison south east regional conference a resolution was moved by Southampton district branch for debate on how Unison should fight the cuts...
6 February 2013
Cracks in the coalition - we must take advantage of the divided enemy
Back when the Con-Dem coalition government was young, and Nick Clegg and David Cameron were singing each other's praises in a rose garden, Cameron did show some foresight of the open warfare that is now rocking the coalition...
Unison NHS workers on strike against huge cuts in the Mid-Yorkshire Trust hospitals, photo Iain Dalton
6 February 2013
'We are ready for a fight to save our NHS.' That's the message of the 25,000 who marched in Lewisham in January to save their A&E, maternity and other vital services...
4 February 2013
Derby Labour councillors 'oppose' cuts - then vote for them
After promising to defend youth services and council housing, Labour councillors have voted for £63 million worth of cuts.
30 January 2013
Hull councillors ready to vote No
Three Hull city Labour councillors have told the local press they will vote against cuts in jobs and services
26 January 2013
Labour meltdown in Stoke-on-Trent continues; and Unison withholds funding
"I cannot, nor will not support an administration that seeks to target the very people they claim to represent" said a resigning Labour councillor
25 January 2013
Southampton councillors ... Don't vote for cuts!
Socialists propose the setting of a No Cuts budget to protect all jobs and services
23 January 2013
Dave Nellist letter in the Independent responds to Owen Jones
Whilst I understand his impatience, Owen Jones ("British politics urgently needs a new force", 21 January) is far too dismissive about attempts to build an electoral alternative to the main three parties' overlapping agenda of austerity
23 January 2013
Building an anti-cuts voice in council elections
New Labour-led Lambeth council called the Brixton Hill byelection for 17 January, minimising scrutiny of their cuts programme with a short election campaign period.
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