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28 September 2011
Fight fees and cuts - join Socialist Students!
Lincoln: Lincoln University Socialist Students gained hundreds of signatures on the 'No to £9k' petition during freshers week, with lots of people interested in joining the society...
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
Unite rep Martin
13 June 2011
Sheffield university strikers more determined
More pickets, flags, placards and more determined were the Sheffield University support staff on strike again on 10th June
University staff strike in Sheffield to save pensions, photo Yorkshire Socialist Party
3 June 2011
Strike action against pensions attack at Sheffield university
Hundreds of Sheffield University support and ancillary staff took strike action on Friday 3rd June against their pension entitlements being slashed
UCU lecturers on a three day strike to stop redundancies at Sheffield College , photo A Tice
20 May 2011
Three day strike to stop redundancies at Sheffield College
College lecturers in the UCU in Sheffield have taken three days of strike action against threatened compulsory redundancies
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...
Rage against the cuts at the Lib Dem spring conference protest, Sheffield
16 March 2011
Lib Dem spring conference: A home-made placard on the 400-strong protest against Sheffield Liberal Democrat council budget cuts on 4 March read: "Barnsley Central today, Sheffield in May
5000 people protested in Sheffield outside the Liberal Democrats' spring conference, photo Robbie Faulds
14 March 2011
Thousands protest against Lib Dems in Sheffield
About 500 people protested on Friday evening (11 March) and ten times that number on Saturday's demonstration (12 March) in Sheffield outside the Lib Dem spring conference. An edited version of this report was carried in The Socialist.
9 March 2011
Students at Sheffield University staged a sit-in of their student union building recently over anger at the rumours that the university could follow others in raising its tuition fees to £9,000 a year from September 2012, writes Wylie Hume, Sheffield.
3 March 2011
A SIX-foot high security fence. A special unit of 1,000 police. Late night court sittings. Sounds like the West Bank? No, welcome to the Lib Dems' spring conference in Sheffield on 11-13 March! Alistair Tice, Sheffield Socialist Party, writes.
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...
26 January 2011
Stop the mental health service cuts
The funding of Mental Health Action Group Sheffield (MHAGS) is in jeopardy. We get our core grant from Sheffield city council, which plans to reduce the service down to one day a week...
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...
2 December 2010
Sheffield students March on Clegg and occupy
Over 300 students marched the 2 miles from Sheffield University to Nick Clegg's constituency office on November 30th...
1 December 2010
Fight against cuts continues to grow
800 march in Ipswich: Between 700 and 800 people marched through Ipswich town centre on 27 November with banners from Unite, National Union of Teachers, Communication Workers Union, Unison and the Fire Brigades Union, writes Dave Murray Eastern region Socialist Party.
Newcastle students protest, photo Elaine Brunskill
1 December 2010
We can win: student struggle must escalate
On 24 November 130,000 school, college and university students walked out in the biggest education action for 25 years...
25 November 2010
Student walkouts on 24 November
Last updated 29 Nov Throughout the day students across the country demonstrated, occupied and walked out against the government's attacks on further and higher education, many initiated by Youth Fight for Jobs and Socialist Students.
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27 October 2010
Wave of protests against Con-Dem cuts
Sheffield, Lincoln, Wrexham, Manchester, York: Three hundred students and trade unionists marched from Sheffield University on 23 October to swell the size of the Yorkshire and Humber TUC rally outside Sheffield town hall to 1,000 protesters, reports Alistair Tice...
24 October 2010
Sheffield anti-cuts demonstration, 23 October
300 students and trade unionists marched down from Sheffield university to swell the size of the Yorkshire and Humber TUC rally outside Sheffield town hall to getting on for 1,000 protesters...
31 March 2010
PCS budget day strike: Support grows across country
PCS pickets who work on security at the Houses of Parliament were out again in force. One of the pickets who has been working there for 20 years explained that during the last strike extra police were...
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