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Campaigns are taking place across Britain to save children's services, photo by Socialist Party
23 May 2012
Con-Dems' hypocrisy over children's care
Tory MP Elizabeth Truss has lamented the lack of quality, affordable childcare. She should know - her Con-Dem government have all but wiped out children's services in some parts of the country.
27 April 2012
Waltham Forest rally: TUSC standing leaders with 'bottle' to fight cuts
100 people attended the Waltham Forest (NE London) TUSC meeting to hear RMT general secretary Bob Crow and TUSC candidates Nancy Taaffe and Jenny Sutton
Vote TUSC postcard
25 April 2012
Vote for a socialist alternative
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is a new electoral coalition that was set up by leading trade unionists including RMT general secretary Bob Crow, and socialists, including the Socialist Party, to provide a political voice to the millions who oppose the cuts.
11 January 2012
Waltham Forest workers and campaigners will lobby the north east London borough's first 2012 council cabinet meeting on 12 January in support of sacked library and Waltham Forest Direct workers, writes Bob Severn.
4 January 2012
Cuts used to attack trade unionists
In its latest round of cuts, Waltham Forest's Labour council has cut another 26 jobs and merged its library service with the Waltham Forest Direct benefits, council tax and advice service...
15 December 2011
Defend trade unionists fighting cuts - solidarity urgently needed
Waltham Forest council, which has made 17 rounds of cuts to jobs and services, has now told around 20 library and Waltham Forest Direct staff that they have lost their jobs
3 November 2011
Jarrow marchers to meet Iain Duncan Smith
On Friday 4 November six Jarrow marchers (who are part of the recreation of the Jarrow March of 75 years ago) will meet work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith in his Chingford constituency...
26 October 2011
Join the Jarrow march for jobs & education - 5 November
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION: Assemble 12 noon at Embankment - march to Trafalgar Square
5 October 2011
Campaigners face bullying and harassment: Waltham Forest council in east London has recently spent £18 million on private consultants and agency staff
Photo Paul Mattsson
31 August 2011
The trickle of cuts and sackings in the public sector has turned into a flood and the mood in my workplace has become one of frustration, worry and anger, a Waltham Forest Unison member writes.
3 August 2011
Waltham Forest: a victory for unity
Waltham Forest, a north east London borough, saw a victory for working class unity against division on Saturday 30 July, writes Sarah Sachs-Eldridge, Walthamstow Socialist Party.
Photo Senan
22 June 2011
200 workers challenge Labour council cuts
Over 200 council workers staged a noisy and colourful protest outside Waltham Forest town hall in north east London, calling on the Labour council to step back from forcing new contracts on the workforce.
2 June 2011
Mood for action among Unison members in Waltham Forest
Over 300 Unison members in Waltham Forest council in north east London voted unanimously to support a motion which included a call for a consultative ballot on strike action to fight the cuts
25 May 2011
Newport Passport Office: On 23 May Tory immigration minister Damian Green announced the closure of Newport Passport Office as a processing centre, writes Dave Reid.
25 May 2011
Local government workers across Britain are facing attacks on their jobs, pay and terms and conditions as part of the Con-Demolition of public services...
13 April 2011
Fighting the cuts after 26 March demo
Connecting London campaigns: Seventy people, representing 15 London borough anti-cuts alliances, met on Saturday 9 April to "share experiences" and discuss the way forward in fighting the cuts, writes Paula Mitchell.
6 April 2011
Labour 'campaigning' - casework style
Around 50 elderly residents of sheltered accommodation, some support staff and relatives were protesting at Waltham Forest Labour council's decision to implement Tory cuts by picking on the old and vulnerable, writes Linda Taaffe.
16 March 2011
Campaigning against all cuts and privatisation
Tower Hamlets: In 1921 Poplar councillors, led by George Lansbury, electrified British politics by refusing to make working class East Londoners pay unaffordable rates...
13 March 2011
Labour imposes a 'Tory budget' in Waltham Forest
On Tuesday 8 March Waltham Forest Labour councillors attempted to do their dirty deeds - £29.5 million of cuts - in secret
3 March 2011
Fighting the cuts: Thousands protest, lobby and occupy
Reports from around the UK: Thousands of people demonstrated against cuts last week, as shown in these reports in this week's issue of the Socialist from Hull, Camden, Lambeth, Haringey, Lewisham, Birmingham, Swansea and Bradford
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