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TUSC protest outside Camden town hall, March 2013, photo Neil Cafferky
8 May 2013
Capitalist parties rejected: Time for a new mass workers' party
The results of the county council elections on 2 May marked a new low for all three major parties. For the first time ever not one of them got 30% or more of the vote; another illustration of the hollowing out of their base of support
1 May 2013
Labour council leader quits under anti-cuts pressure
Southampton's council leader dramatically resigned, walking out of a meeting
1 May 2013
Saying no to blacklisting in Southampton
Unite activists from the Southampton area came together on 25 April to join the growing voice of workers across the country speaking out against the illegal practices of employers blacklisting union activists from employment...
18 April 2013
Angry workers protest outside Ford's UK headquarters
Workers from Ford's Dagenham Stamping & Tooling Operations plant finished their night shift and descended on Ford's UK headquarters
28 March 2013
34. On the NHS Labour is now 30 points ahead in opinion polls, and is generally 'more trusted' to run public services...
Southampton councillors Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, photo Southampton SP
27 February 2013
Councillors must fight attacks on council services
In Southampton youth workers and young people are campaigning to stop the decimation of youth services
20 February 2013
Fighting for a real alternative to cuts
Lessons of Southampton - councillors have a choice: Is it true that councils really have 'no option' but to pass on the Con-Dems' cuts?
14 February 2013
After a merry-go-round of cuts advocates, councillors Don Thomas and Keith Morrell moved an alternative
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
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...
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
Save Southampton City Youth Services held a lively protest outside the civic centre supported by anti-cuts councillors Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, photo Socialist Party
23 January 2013
Southampton: Give youth a future!
Opposition is growing to the destruction of youth services in Southampton. If the cuts go ahead the council will provide nothing
The two anti-cuts councillors, Keith Morrel and Don Thomas
2 January 2013
'The Eight Consultations of Christmas' in Southampton
In true panto style Southampton city council recently embarked on a touring production of eight 'consultation' meetings
17 December 2012
Southampton - Newtown public meeting
Last week councillors and council officers were summonsed to a public meeting in the inner city of Southampton
21 November 2012
Southampton: Labour's 'fair' council announces £25 million cuts, but workers want action
Southampton's Labour council has announced a record cuts budget for next year
Southampton youth workers and their supporters fight to save youth services from extinction , photo by Socialist Party
21 November 2012
Southampton youth workers and their supporters fight to save youth services from extinction
14 November 2012
Workers and councillors must make a stand against 300 job cuts in Southampton
Labour-run Southampton council intends to axe at least 300 jobs and to slash services as part of its £20 million budget cuts for 2013
Picketing at Fords Dagenham, 18 June 2012, photo Pete Mason
7 November 2012
United action to save all Ford jobs!
National Shop Stewards Network and Socialist Party members have been producing regular bulletins supporting the Ford workers fighting the closure of the Ford plants in Dagenham and Southampton...
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