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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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...
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...
13 January 2010
Sheffield bus demo: AROUND 70 marchers braved the cold to join last Saturday's demonstration in Sheffield called by We Want Our Buses Back (WWOBB) to protest against First's 8% hike in bus fares, writes Alistair Tice.
3 November 2009
South Yorkshire firefighters and Sheffield First bus drivers
Unity of Sheffield strikers: Despite last minute talks and supposed 'offers', strikes by South Yorkshire firefighters and Sheffield First bus drivers went ahead on 31 October, joining postal delivery workers taking national industrial action on the same day...
12 August 2009
South Yorkshire bus drivers plan more strikes
Drivers working for South Yorkshire's largest bus company, First, are planning more strikes following a legal challenge leading to the postponement of one strike...
4 March 2008
Sheffield activists fight militarism
SHEFFIELD HAS recently seen the formation of Sheffield Activist Network, a grouping involving socialists, anarchists and animal rights campaigners. , writes Chris Hyde, Sheffield
8 November 2007
Support strikers at Northern General Hospital
ELEVEN BULK stores staff at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital (NGH), all Unison members, have now taken ten days of strike action against management plans to impose 20% wage cuts through axing their bonus scheme....
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