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9 May 2012
Care home closures in Sheffield
Sheffield City Council is planning to close all of the remaining elderly care homes in the city that are still council owned after years of privatisation of social care, writes Wyllie Hume, Sheffield Socialist Party.
2 May 2012
Sheffield marches against sexism and cuts
Over 200 women and men demonstrated in Sheffield city centre on 28 April against sexism, especially in protest at the Con-Dem government and Labour council cuts to women's services in the city and nationally, writes Victoria Wainwright, Sheffield Socialist Party.
1 May 2012
Sheffield Socialist Party: May Day election rally
Novotel hotel, Arundel Gate, Sheffield, writes Speakers:.
23 April 2012
Claps and cheers greet Remploy marchers in Sheffield
On Friday 20 April hundreds of Remploy workers and members of the public gathered in Sheffield to show their opposition to the government's plans to close Remploy factories
18 April 2012
On 3 May use your vote to: Shake up politics and fight all cuts!
This is a government of the rich for the rich. That is the inescapable message of the Lib-Con coalition's ultra anti-working class budget and the whole cuts agenda.
Mass Trespass won the right the roam
18 April 2012
1932 - mass trespass won the right to roam
Battling for change: The latest crisis in capitalism has given rise to the 'Occupy' movement, a visible and youthful protest at the unequal ownership and distribution of wealth...
11 April 2012
Sheffield election launch: "The main parties are rubbish - put them in the bin!"
The Sheffield TUSC local election launch used three wheelie bins full of rubbish to represent the three main parties and illustrate how they are all committed to the austerity cuts agenda
Student walk-out and demonstration 14 March 2012, photo by Paul Mattsson
15 March 2012
14 March - Socialist Students get a response
Across Britain, thousands of students took part in the 14 March protest called, but not built for, by the National Union of Students against £9,000 tuition fees, the ending of Education Maintenance Allowance student payments, privatisation and cuts...
1 March 2012
Stop prison guards housing asylum seekers - stop G4S!
"I don't want a prison guard as my landlord" said a Zimbabwean asylum seeker on a protest demonstration today
29 February 2012
McWorkfare - "Let's campaign until it's stopped completely"
On Monday protesters were at McDonald's in Sheffield to voice disgust at the Con-Dems' forced labour schemes. Also read on for reports from Leeds, Birmingham and Wakefield
29 February 2012
Sheffield housing - failed by privatisation
26,465 (88.2%) Sheffield city council tenants have voted in favour of returning council housing management to the council from the independent company Sheffield Homes, writes Wyllie Hume.
22 February 2012
Defend education - Join the student walkout
The National Union of Students (NUS) has called on students to walk out of lectures on 14 March as part of a national week of action
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.
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