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Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
9 May 2012
iPads for MPs: Up to £660. That's how much the gadget of the moment, the iPad, will set you back. Months of hard saving for most of us - but not if you're an MP. 70 MPs have already claimed expenses for an iPad
28 March 2012
Budget for the 1% must be fought
The blatantly pro-rich budget of Chancellor George Osborne was met by a wave of outrage. There was incredulity that the top 1% had been made significantly better off, while pushing on with austerity for everyone else
27 March 2012
Visteon pensioners protesting at Westminister, 28 March
Three years after the shock closure of Visteon, the campaign to restore pension rights promised before Ford transfered 3,400 employees to the doomed Visteon UK continues with a protest at Westminster on Wednesday 28th March at midday...
25 January 2012
Stop the Salford day centre closures
Over 100 people - service users, carers, staff, pensioners - filled the room at a Salford Unison protest meeting to stop the closure of two day centres for the elderly and disabled, writes Salford Socialist Party.
National Pensioners Convention on a 2007 TUC lobby of Parliament, photo Paul Mattsson
14 December 2011
Pensioners and workers - united fight needed
When I addressed 2,000 striking public sector workers on 30 November in Reading, I brought greetings of solidarity and unity from the Thames Valley National Pensioners Convention (NPC), writes Terry Pearce, Thames Valley National Pensioners Convention (personal capacity).
30 November 2011
The Con-Dems don't: Two recent reports highlight the plight of the elderly in England and Wales. Firstly, the Office for National Statistics reported 25,700 deaths due to cold weather in 2010/11
30 November 2011
The Tory solution to pensioner poverty?
The winter fuel allowance scandal: You will have heard of Good King Wenceslas. You may not have heard of his evil twin Bad King Wenceslas, writes Derek McMillan.
31 October 2011
BBC discriminates against pensioners
Last week Salford Pensioners' Association, along with members of Salford against Cuts, lobbied the BBC at Salford's Media City, against ageism.
12 October 2011
Pensions: The National Pensioners Convention is launching a Rights in Retirement campaign week from 24 to 29 October 2011, writes Terry Pearce
24 June 2011
National Pensioners Convention parliament
Support for workers on 30 June: 1,500 pensioners from all over Britain attended the National Pensioners Convention parliament in Blackpool on 14-16 June
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