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19 November 2008
 U-turn over post office card account
 | Successsful campaign stops closure of post office in Stroud, photo by Chris Moore |
In a delayed and surprise announcement last week, arch-Blairite Work and Pensions secretary James Purnell announced that the government is abandoning the competitive tendering process and awarding the continuation of the Post Office Card Account contract to the post office for a further five years from 2010, writes Alistair Tice, Sheffield Communities Against Post Office Closures.
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17 September 2008
No to post office closures
PLANS TO close nine sub-post offices, vital local services, across the Huddersfield/ Colne Valley area are a hammer blow to these communities, Huddersfield Socialist Party members write.
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18 June 2008
Leeds: Stop Beeston post office closures
The Leeds Socialist Party branch has been campaigning against the closure of three post offices in Beeston. We have done several stalls in the area and had a good response...
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21 May 2008
Fightback saves Cardiff school
 | Cardiff school protest, photo Socialist Party Wales |
CAMPAIGNERS FROM Lansdowne Primary School in Canton, Cardiff are celebrating, writes Ross Saunders, Cardiff West Socialist Party, Unison steward, Fitzalan High School.
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21 May 2008
Give us back our Post Office!
 | Postman Pat joins the CWU picket line in East London during a CWU strike, photo Naomi Byron |
ON 14 May, the postal workers' branch of the CWU union in Coventry organised a wreath-laying ceremony at Coventry's crown post office at Hertford Street which, like 70 others, has been privatised in a deal with WH Smith...
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30 April 2008
Stop PFI pirates wrecking our NHS
 | Coventry Councillor Dave Nellist on NHS demonstration 1st November 2006, photo Paul Mattsson |
THE NATIONAL Health Service has its 60th birthday this July. Can working people still celebrate this vital service which they struggled for years to obtain, writes Keith White.
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23 April 2008
300 students occupied Manchester University building against cuts
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19 March 2008
No more post office closures!
CHANTS OF 'Save our Post Offices' and 'Kick the fat cats out' rang through Stroud in Gloucestershire as over 100 people braved heavy rain to protest at the closure of five post offices, writes Chris Moore, Save Our Post Offices campaign
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19 March 2008
Following the Essex road
THE POST Office steamroller continues around the country. Behind it lies a growing number of closed branches and deprived communities, hitting the elderly, writes Jon Dale
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12 March 2008
Stroud - Save our post office!
PEOPLE IN Stroud, Gloucestershire are angry at proposals to close another five local post offices and will be demonstrating through the town centre on 15 March, writes Chris Moore, (Save Our Post Offices campaign)
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