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22 February 2012
Second construction firm pulls out of BESNA contract
Following Balfour Beatty pulling out of the new BESNA contract last Friday, another of the 'dirty 7' construction firms - NG Bailey - has now followed suit...
17 February 2012
Hands off our NHS! - Colour version
Hands off our NHS! - Black and white version
Hands off our NHS! Protest outside parliament, 7 March 2012, called by Unite
17 February 2012
Pensions inflation-link case in court on Monday
Seven trade unions will take the government to court on Monday, 20 February over changes to the way public sector pensions are calculated...
17 February 2012
Victory! Balfour Beatty withdraws BESNA contracts
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services (BBES) has backed down on imposing contracts which would have terminated long-held agreements, leading to pay cuts of up to 30% and poorer terms and conditions for key construction staff...
16 February 2012
Socialist Party debates with leader of Southampton Council on BBC Radio Solent
Nick Chaffey, Anti-cuts campaigner and the Socialist Party's regional organiser in Southampton, debated with Southampton council leader, Royston Smith...
13 February 2012
Kazakhstan workers' leaders under threat of imprisonment
The leaders of Kazakhstan's independent workers' union, 'Zhanartu' (Renaissance) - Esenbek Ukteshbaev, president, and deputy chair, Ainur Kurmanov - may be subjected to arrest or abduction. Urgent protest messages are needed.
9 February 2012
Funeral details for Rob Windsor, socialist councillor
Arrangements have been announced for the funeral of one of Coventry's most popular former councillors...
9 February 2012
BBC report: Unite may hold new NHS pensions strike ballot
"The Unite trade union says it may hold a fresh strike ballot of its 100,000 members in the NHS over their continuing pension dispute"...
10 February 2012
Fire Brigades Union statement on pension proposals
9 February 2012
Next construction workers' protests: Wednesday 15th February
Unite and the rank and file electricians committee have agreed the following protests for a day of action next Wednesday
8 February 2012
Unions cautiously welcome talks with Unilever
Responding to the news that Unilever management has agreed to engage in ACAS talks, officers of the joint trade unions - Unite, Usdaw and GMB - make the following statement
5 February 2012
Striking oil tanker drivers demand meaningful talks
123 oil tanker drivers, employed by haulage firm Wincanton on the ConocoPhillips contract to deliver fuel to Jet forecourts, began their second week of strike action on Friday 3rd February...
1 February 2012
Construction workers continue protests on 1st February
Around 40 sparks were protesting outside Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station on Wednesday 1st February to fight the imposition of the BESNA contract...
31 January 2012
HMRC workers strike back against privatisation
PCS members in HMRC processing offices and contact centres took a day's strike action on Tuesday 31st January, in an escalation of a campaign against privatisation which has already seen staff walk out on two previous occasions
30 January 2012
Gagging order on Tommy Sheridan is lifted
The threat to stop Tommy Sheridan from speaking out after his release from prison today has been withdrawn, but not his tagging
30 January 2012
Construction workers plan mass protest on Friday 3rd Feb
On 2nd February the ballot result for Balfour Beatty workers will be known. Unite the union is expecting a legal challenge. But come what may, a mass protest is planned at Blackfriars station on 3rd February at 7am and 7pm
30 January 2012
Jet tanker drivers' strike - latest news
The Wincanton employed tanker drivers deliver 20% of all fuel to Jet forecourts. The week long strike has had a massive impact.
28 January 2012
Anger over Tommy Sheridan 'gagging order'
"Tommy Sheridan's lawyer has accused prison authorities of trying to "gag" him on his release from jail, writes BBC report: 28 January 2012 Last updated at 13:41.
26 January 2012
Rail union RMT secures £2,500 Olympics pay deal on Docklands Light Railway (DLR)
Transport union RMT has secured a ground breaking Olympics pay deal on DLR worth £2,500 made up of a guaranteed attendance payment of £900 and guaranteed overtime payments for all staff throughout the Olympic and Paralympic games...
26 January 2012
Occupy USA - Crisis USA - London Socialist Party video
Bryan Koulouris, from Socialist Alternative, photo Socialist Party
Occupy Wall street - US Presidential elections - Economic downturn - Bryan Koulouris, from Socialist Alternative, the sister party of the Socialist Party in the USA, explains how the USA is being transformed by the occupy movements which have arisen in anger at the growing inequality between the 1%.
19 January 2012
The POA are delighted that the European Court of Human Rights have accepted the Union's application for restoration of Trade Union Rights, writes Steve Gillan General Secretary of the POA stated:.
6 January 2012
NUT confirms won't sign pensions 'heads of agreement'
The NUT has issued a press release confirming that it will not sign up to the heads of agreement for the TPS as it doesn't resolve any of the issues of paying more, working longer, getting less...
8 January 2012
New video: Mark Serwotka speaking at the PCS Left Unity open organising conference in defence of pensions on Saturday 7 January...
6 January 2012
Ambulance workers vote for action to defend pensions
NHS ambulance workers in the NHS have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action short of strike action in defence of their pensions...
10 January 2012
Unite rejects local government pensions offer
The government's latest proposals to cut local government pensions were rejected by Unite, Britain's biggest union, today (Monday, 9 January)...
23 December 2011
SP leaflet: Reject the pensions 'deal' - The Facts For Workers Across The Public Sector
20 December 2011
PCS denounces government's "unacceptable bullying"
The Cabinet Office unilaterally announced yesterday that the PCS civil servants union would no longer be invited to negotiations over pensions, writes See:.
16 December 2011
70 Dead & 500 wounded by riot police in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan oil workers and their supporters had today planned a peaceful demonstration in Zhanaozen. The authorities, however, are inflicting brutal repression
16 December 2011
ipetition launched: Strike again in January! Defend our pensions!
www.ipetitions.com/petition/pensions_strike_january/, writes The Petition:.
15 December 2011
Anti-Academy strike action in Birmingham
NUT, NASUWT and GMB members at Montgomery primary school in Birmingham took strike action on 13th December to protest against plans to turn the school into an academy, writes Nick Hart.
15 December 2011
PCS comments on Maude misleading MPs over pensions dispute
Public and Commercial Services union general secretary Mark Serwotka comments on statements made in parliament by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude about the negotiations over public sector pensions
13 December 2011
Revenue & Customs workers' lunchtime strike
As part of national industrial action on Monday 12 December, angry civil servants at HMRC Southampton held a lunchtime car park strike meeting to rally support for the continued attacks on sickness policy, writes Nick Chaffey.
12 December 2011
Construction workers SP leaflet: All Out to Stop the Sites!
12 December 2011
Construction poster: All Out to Stop the Sites!
12 December 2011
Conference sets up Scottish Anti-Cuts Coalition
12 December 2011
250 'rank & file' electricians meet in Glasgow
9 December 2011
PCS challenges 'non-negotiable' pension attacks
See PCS press release: Block on pensions talks exposes ministers' hypocrisy.
8 December 2011
South Yorkshire Stagecoach bus drivers' strike
Stagecoach South Yorkshire bus drivers, members of the Unite trade union, took two more days of strike action on 2 and 3 December in pursuit of their claim for £9/hour pay parity with their Sheffield colleagues...
4 December 2011
Labour MP condones pension cuts on Question Time
The following letter "With friends like these" has been sent to the media by member of the Socialist Party and 'Liverpool 47' Tony Mulhearn
30 November 2011
Unprecedented support for N30 strike
PCS reps across the UK are reporting more activity than ever on strike day as they join millions of members of other unions taking action to defend their pensions
24 November 2011
1.16 million NEETs - Youth Fight for Jobs demands a better future
Official figures today show that a record high of 1.16 million 16- to 24-year-olds in England are not in education, employment or training, almost one in five...
25 November 2011
Honda convenor Paddy Brennan has suspension lifted
Paddy Brennan, Unite convenor at the Honda car plant in Swindon, has finally had his suspension lifted...
24 November 2011
Arrested in Kazakhstan - Free Georgii Epshtein!
Georgii Epshtein, a leading member of the Russian CWI, on a visit to Kazakhstan, was arrested by the police in the office of the "Leave People's Homes Alone" campaign in Almaty
23 November 2011
Northern Rock and Branson's present
The latest Con-Dem jape is to con the long suffering taxpayer who will stump up £13 a head to give Richard Branson the 'good' part of Northern Rock, writes Tony Mulhearn
22 November 2011
Strike to defend the JIB! Socialist Party leaflet
22 November 2011
Siteworker leaflet: Balfour Beatty (BBES) ballot - The Truth - Why you should vote for the strike
The pressure is building on the 'Big 7'
construction companies who want to
withdraw from the JIB agreement and impose
the new BESNA contracts which will cut pay
by up to 35%. Electricians all over the country
are fighting back. Last week saw walkouts
and stoppages at many sites, including
Corus on Teesside, Ratcliffe and West Burton
power stations, Saltend and Farringdon in
London.
18 November 2011
Support Egyptian students' struggle at the German University in Cairo
The CWI website socialistworld.net has reported this week on a students' struggle for an independent, democratic students' union at the German University in Cairo (GUC)...
18 November 2011
List of union ballot results for action against pension cuts
17 November 2011
Unite votes Yes to strike action on 30 November
Members of the union Unite who work in the public sector have voted resoundingly in favour of industrial action to defend their pensions...
13 November 2011
Videos of speeches at Socialism 2011
Videos of speeches at the Socialism 2011 Saturday rally have been added to article: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/13116...
9 November 2011
Construction workers kettled - please send urgent protests!
After the construction workers' demonstration today, 200 protesters from the demo marched off to join the student demonstration that is also taking place today, but have been kettled by the police near Blackfriars Bridge...
7 November 2011
Paul Murphy MEP detained in Israeli prison
Socialist Party MEP Paul Murphy, from Dublin in Ireland, was part of the aid flotilla to Gaza that was stormed by Israeli troops on Friday
3 November 2011
Unison: 78% of voters say 'yes' to strike
Members of UNISON, the UK's largest union, have today voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action to protect their pensions...
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...
3 November 2011
Mark Serwotka calls pensions raid only "slightly less"
Commenting on the latest government offer on pensions, PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said it "would still force public servants to pay more in and work longer for less in retirement".
31 October 2011
BBC discriminates against pensioners
Last week Salford Pensioners' Association, along with members of Salford against Cuts, lobbied the BBC at Salford's Media City, against ageism.
28 October 2011
Madness to close jobcentres says PCS
The Public and Commercial Services union has condemned plans to close 19 jobcentres across the UK as unemployment rises, announced by the Department for Work and Pensions today...
26 October 2011
Second strike on Monday at TV Licensing
TV Licensing workers employed by outsourcing giant Capita will walk out again next Monday, 31st October, as they step up their campaign of industrial action to win a fair pay rise...
26 October 2011
Solidarity appeal for 'Occupy Seattle', USA
On Saturday 15 October, Occupy Seattle reached its peak mobilised support with upwards of 5,000 demonstrators...
25 October 2011
Coventry Telegraph covers Jarrow march for jobs
"Young protesters staged a vocal demo through Coventry city centre as part of the national Jarrow March anniversary campaign"
25 October 2011
Preparing to stand anti-cuts candidates in Scotland
The first important step in standing anti-cuts candidates in next year's Scottish council elections was taken at a 70 strong meeting on Saturday
24 October 2011
High Court challenge to public sector pensions switch
Six unions have mounted a legal challenge on behalf of millions of public sector workers over what inflation index is used to increase their pensions...
18 October 2011
BBC One Show's report on the Jarrow march
14 October 2011
Picture slide show: Marking ten years since the invasion of Afghanistan
Stop the War Trafalgar Square rally, photo Paul Mattsson
To mark ten years of the war and occupation in Afghanistan, 3,000 people took part in the Stop the War Trafalgar Square rally on Saturday 8 October...
13 October 2011
Greenwich Unite criticises privatisation of welfare services
In light of recent figures on unemployment and child poverty, Greenwich Unite has slammed Greenwich council for failing to reconsider the decision to privatise and effectively kill off the Welfare Rights Service
12 October 2011
Fighting job losses at London's Queen Mary University
Security at Queen Mary's University of London in Mile End, East London, were told to lock all the doors to defend the university's council from protesters...
12 October 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15275853...
6 October 2011
No secret talks to retreat on N30 pensions strike!
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) issued the following statement in response to a report that TUC leader Brendan Barber is engaging in secret talks with the aim of calling off public sector strike action planned for 30th November...
3 October 2011
35,000 on TUC march in Manchester
35,000 trade unionists and other protesters marched in Manchester yesterday against the austerity measures of the Tories - who were assembling in the city for their annual conference...
30 September 2011
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the struggle of councillors in Poplar, east London, against government cuts. This culminated in their going to prison with the slogan 'better to break the law than to break the poor'.
29 September 2011
PCS gives formal backing for strike on 30 November
Formal backing for more than a quarter of a million civil and public servants to join a public sector-wide strike on 30 November has put the Public and Commercial Services union on a "war footing"...
30 September 2011
Cable Street 1936 - Workers drove back the fascists
The events known as the Battle of Cable Street are presently being commemorated, to mark their 75th anniversary
28 September 2011
Jarrow marchers win full retreat from council
South Tyneside council has backed down on its demand to the Jarrow march (against umemployment) to pay over £2,500 to exercise the right to demonstrate. The Guardian has carried articles on this two days running
27 September 2011
MEP to join Jarrow march against unemployment
Paul Murphy (Socialist Party MEP for Dublin) will be joining the Jarrow march for jobs for its final leg going into London at the end of its 330 mile journey from South Tyneside
26 September 2011
Stop council imposing £2,500 charge for the Jarrow March
South Tyneside council wants to charge young, unemployed people £2,500 to re-enact the Jarrow March 75 years on...
26 September 2011
Sunday Mirror publicises next month's Jarrow March
The Sunday Mirror on 25th September carried a feature on the Jarrow March that is starting on Saturday 1st October, organised by Youth Fight for Jobs
22 September 2011
Axe-man Swinney does Con-Dems' dirty work
New article on Socialist Party Scotland website on yesterday's budget cuts by the Scottish National Party (SNP)
21 September 2011
Mirror's Kevin Maguire wishes luck to Jarrow marchers
In today's Daily Mirror, Kevin Maguire's section includes the following piece that wishes the "best of luck" to the Youth Fight for Jobs Jarrow marchers...
16 September 2011
Kazakhstan socialists under threat of imminent arrest
Two leading socialists in Kazakhstan, CWI members Ainur Kurmanov and Esenbek Ukteshbayev, as well as other leaders of the Socialist Movement Kazakhstan (formerly 'Kazakhstan 2012'), face the threat of imminent arrest and imprisonment
16 September 2011
PCS strike threat wins increased pay for Fujitsu IT workers
A major pay deal which means an 11% increase for the lowest paid has been agreed for private sector IT staff on government contracts after the threat of strike action by the Public and Commercial Services union...
13 September 2011
Support striking hospital workers in Berlin
Charité Facility Management (CFM) workers in Germany's capital Berlin started a strike on Monday 12th September. Their main demand is to win a collective bargaining agreement...
13 September 2011
PCS president questions Ed Miliband over pension cuts
Janice Godrich, PCS national president, has quizzed Labour leader Ed Miliband from the floor of TUC congress over his refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts to their pensions...
12 September 2011
200 jobs saved by PCS campaign
More than 200 UK jobs have been saved after a campaign by the Public and Commercial Services union forced government contractor Hewlett Packard to abandon plans to offshore work to India, writes PCS press release, 10.9.11:.
7 September 2011
Socialist Party member Onay Kasab has been informed by the Unison leadership that his appeal against expulsion from the union has failed...
6 September 2011
Health and Social Care Bill is "end of NHS"
"Any MP who votes for the Health and Social Care Bill next week is voting for the end of the NHS" said Christina McAnea, UNISON Head of Health on 4 September...
6 September 2011
PCS leader urges workers to join Sunday's NSSN lobby of the TUC
PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka will be among the speakers at a rally organised by the National Shop Stewards Network on Sunday 11th September, calling on the TUC to lead the resistance to cuts by organising coordinated public sector action this autumn
2 September 2011
Scottish local government Unison calls for one-day strike on pensions
Scottish local government Unison conference has this afternoon supported a motion calling for a ballot and a one-day strike in the autumn on pensions...
2 September 2011
'Oppose physical force in schools' say YFJ and YFE
"This is apparently in response to the riots; but how will introducing the threat of violence into the classroom cut across the root causes of the riots?..."
24 August 2011
Newcastle-under-Lyme Socialist Party is now up and running!
On Monday 22 August there was a very good first meeting of Newcastle-under-Lyme Socialist Party in Wolstanton!
19 August 2011
Bristol Connexions staff take strike action
Staff from Connexions in Bristol took strike action last Thursday, joined by colleagues from across the former Avon area, in the face of attacks to pay and conditions
18 August 2011
Child poverty in America has increased by 18% in the past decade leaving one in five below the poverty line, according to a new study by the Annie E Casey Foundation...
16 August 2011
1819 Peterloo Massacre - fitting memorial demanded
On 16th August 1819 in St Peter's Fields, Manchester, armed cavalry charged a peaceful crowd of around 60,000 people gathered to listen to anti-poverty and pro-democracy speakers...
14 August 2011
Reverse youth service cuts says Salford Unison
Below are extracts from a letter to Salford council Labour leader John Merry that was written on Friday 12th August by Salford Unison branch secretary Steve North in response to comments John Merry made on the riots in Salford earlier in the week...
12 August 2011
MPs' double standards on criminality
Swansea West Labour MP, Geraint Davies commenting on the rioting in Croydon, an area he used to represent in parliament, stated: "...it is clear what we have seen is just opportunist criminality."...
13 August 2011
Haringey council cut youth services despite warnings
Haringey Council papers from April reveal its children and young people's support, education and employment services budgets were slashed by 75% this financial year in a bid to save £14.1 million
10 August 2011
Support the oil workers on strike in Kazakhstan
Also, a trade union lawyer has been sentenced to six years in jail. The intransigent employer refuses negotiations...
9 August 2011
PCS says 'lawlessness of financial & political elites' is the bigger problem
The PCS has issued a statement on the widespread rioting that has been taking place following the death of Mark Duggan at the hands of the police in Tottenham last week...
3 August 2011
Jail the bankers ... and nationalise the banks!
A multinational team of financial regulators, led by the US Department of Justice, is investigating allegations that some of the world's leading banks manipulated currency rates at the time of the credit crunch crisis in 2008...
1 August 2011
Overwhelming vote for action over IT offshoring plan
IT workers who maintain the records of millions of people for the Department for Work and Pensions have voted for industrial action over plans to offshore their work, the Public and Commercial Services union has announced...
28 July 2011
HONDA - REINSTATE PADDY BRENNAN!
Paddy Brennan, photo Socialist Party
The National Shop Stewards Network has just received word that Paddy Brennan, UNITE Convenor at the Swindon Honda plant has been suspended from work...
21 July 2011
Kazakhstan - support striking oil workers
Kazakhstan oil workers in the west of the country working for the national oil company KazMunaiGas and some of its subsidiaries and contractors started strike action at the end of May which has been ongoing for over two months...
19 July 2011
PCS condemns closure of 20 Jobcentres
The planned closure of 20 jobcentres announced to staff this morning (19th July) by the Department for Work and Pensions is "unthinkable and irresponsible" at a time of high unemployment, says the Public and Commercial Services union...
20 July 2011
'Maximum unity' needed to counter government's pensions attacks
The PCS and several education unions have reaffirmed that public sector unions need to consider further action in the autumn, as government ministers have confirmed they are to press on with cuts to pensions.
13 July 2011
South Yorkshire journalists on indefinite strike from Friday
The South Yorkshire National Union of Journalists (NUJ) newspapers chapel voted unanimously for an all-out indefinite strike from Friday 15 July...
13 July 2011
BBC journalists to strike on Friday
Journalists at the BBC are to strike on Friday 15 July over compulsory redundancies
10 July 2011
Kazakhstan riot police attacked striking oil workers
On Friday, a wave of Kazakhstan "COBRA" riot police entered the town of Zhanaozen, west Kazakhstan, in an attempt to end a permanent demonstration and hunger strike by striking oil and gas workers and their families...
5 July 2011
PCS criticises report on public/private pay as "meaningless"
Today's Office for National Statistics report about pay in the public and private sectors is so flawed it is rendered meaningless says the PCS union...
4 July 2011
Socialist Party Malaysia facing brutality
Police in Malaysia have arrested around 30 supporters of Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) with the charge that they are reviving the 'communism' of the Malaysian Communist Party...
22 June 2011
Tribunal rules tube driver Arwyn was unfairly dismissed
London Underground driver, Arwyn Thomas, a member of the RMT union, has won his employment tribunal claim for unfair dismissal...
24 June 2011
RMT victory - Arwyn Thomas reinstated
Following an employment tribunal ruling that London Underground train driver Arwyn Thomas was unfairly dismissed, negotiations between the RMT union and London Underground bosses took place in which Arwyn's reinstatement was agreed...
27 June 2011
Italy - brutal dawn attack on peaceful protest camp
At 5am this morning, 2,000 police stormed the protest camps in Val di Susa, northern Italy, to try to allow work to start on a High Velocity Railway (TAV)...
14 June 2011
NUT announces overwhelming support for strike
15 June 2011
PCS members have voted for strike action
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) have voted by a clear majority in favour of strike action and action short of strike, in their dispute over pensions, pay and job cuts...
9 June 2011
RMT names tube strike dates against victimisation
8 June 2011
Coventry trade unionists condemn anti-strike comments
8 June 2011
Solid strike at Tile Hill Wood secondary school
The campaign in Coventry against academies continues with strike action at two schools this week
6 June 2011
Protests against cuts in legal aid
Up to 100 people attended a protest on Friday in Coventry city centre against the Con-Dem cuts to legal aid. This was just one of many protests that took place around the country...
6 June 2011
'No excuse for rape' say Cardiff marchers
About 250 angry women and men gathered in Cardiff to march against the myth that rape is caused by what women wear.
3 June 2011
UCU becomes sixth union to back Jarrow march
At its conference, the University and College Union overwhelmingly agreed to support the Jarrow March for Jobs taking place in the autumn.
2 June 2011
PCS Revenue & Customs staff taking action on 7-8 June
PCS members in Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will be taking industrial from 4pm on 7 June: The dispute is over attendance management policy...
31 May 2011
Southampton city council strikes continue
Refuse workers finished their first strike action against cuts to pay, jobs and services on Friday 27 May 100% solid. Support has poured in from around the country and internationally...
27 May 2011
New report 'shatters the government's case' for pension cuts
A House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report "The impact of the 2007-2008 changes to public service pensions" confirms what unions have been saying - that there is no need for public sector workers to be paying in more for their pensions...
25 May 2011
Anti-academy campaigners in Liverpool lobby their council
24 May 2011
Civil servants start voting in national strike ballot
More than a quarter of a million members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) will start voting this week in their national strike ballot over cuts to pensions, jobs and pay
23 May 2011
London postal workers vote 'Yes' for strike action
Postal workers in London have voted by four to one (79%) in favour of strike action against plans to shut three mail centres and one delivery office
23 May 2011
CWU calls for 24-hour general strike against cuts
The CWU conference has voted unanimously to call on the TUC to coordinate a 24-hour general strike against the cuts and attacks on wages and pensions
20 May 2011
Blacklisted electrician stands his ground on right to protest
After two years of harassment against blacklisted electrician Steve Acheson, Scottish and Southern Electricity (S&SE) has backed down...
13 May 2011
Closure of a fifth of benefit processing offices and call centres announced
Jobcentre Plus has been announced that 17 benefit processing sites and five contact centres will be shut, mostly within 12 months, with the loss of 2,400 jobs...
12 May 2011
British Airways cabin crew balloting on latest offer
A mass meeting of Unite cabin crew members at BA has agreed to ballot the wider membership in regard to the company's latest offer to settle the long running dispute
10 May 2011
Equality Commission staff in PCS on eve of second strike
Members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) walked out for an hour on Wednesday 4 May in protest at a 68% cut in the EHRC budget...
4 May 2011
Exeter Anti Cuts March and Rally: video and pictures
Jim Thomson addressed the Exeter Anti Cuts March and Rally 2 May 2011, photo Nick Hall
1 May 2011
Berlin, Germany - Charité hospital workers to strike on 2nd May
Members of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) in SAV - Sozialistische Alternative - are supporting a struggle by workers at the largest university teaching hospital in Berlin - Charité...
2 May 2011
May Day in Kazakhstan marked by attacks on CWI activists and supporters
Having been prevented from organising their own May Day event, activists of the socialist "Kazakhstan 2012" movement and Socialist Resistance Kazakhstan (the CWI in Kazakhstan) decided to participate in the official event...
28 April 2011
Coventry - youngest election candidate speaks out
Coventry Socialist Party website interviewed 18-year old Dan Crowter, Socialist Alternative Coventry, youngest election candidate in the Coventry local elections
27 April 2011
Tony Mulhearn on 'The Moral Maze', radio 4, 8pm Wednesday 27 April
Socialist Party member Tony Mulhearn from the Liverpool 47 group of councillors who led a battle against the Tory government in the 1980s will be part of the panel on the programme The Moral Maze tonight, on the issue 'Meritocracy and Monarchy'...
18 April 2011
Over 2,000 protest against death of Smiley Culture during a police raid
At least 2,000 people assembled outside the Southbank Club on Wandsworth Road in south London to demonstrate against the death of reggae artist Smiley Culture...
18 April 2011
"Second battle of Hastings" - 350 marched against cuts on Saturday
14 April 2011
'Vote Against Cuts' in Leicester has its launch meeting
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates in Leicester are standing as part of an alliance with candidates from Unity for Peace and Socialism, called 'Vote Against Cuts'...
12 April 2011
Protest this Thursday against BP Saltend lockout
BP has its company AGM in London this Thursday, 14 April. Coachloads of locked out workers are going to protest...
8 April 2011
NUJ conference calls for the TUC to organise a 24-hour general strike
The NUJ conference taking place in Southport has voted for the TUC to be called on to organise a 24-hour general strike against the government's cuts onslaught...
7 April 2011
Coventry school strike against becoming an academy
Industrial action at Tile Hill Woods school in Coventry has been stepped up against plans to turn the school into an academy...
8 April 2011
Jobcentre call centre staff to strike on 18 April
Thousands of Jobcentre Plus (JCP) call centre staff will strike on 18 April after bosses refused to improve working conditions and customer service, the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) has announced...
1 April 2011
Socialist Party members support POA fight against privatisation
London: Socialist Party members visited HMP Holloway to offer their support to POA members who were meeting to discuss their response to yesterday's announcement that HMP Birmingham would be privatised...
30 March 2011
Cllr Dave Nellist condemns housing benefit reductions
New housing benefit claims from Friday 1st April will only be eligible for a reduced rate; existing tenants will see their claims reduce at some point up to nine months after the anniversary of their claim date...
24 March 2011
Brazil welcomed Obama with the arrest of 13 protesters
The arrival of Barack Obama in Brazil was marked by the political arrest of 13 Brazilians who were protesting against his presence in the country...
21 March 2011
Saltend construction workers call for national strike action
At a mass meeting of 400 locked-out Redhalls workers at Saltend this morning, the company's offer of £3,000 each was unanimously rejected...
21 March 2011
PCS protest on budget day, Wednesday 23rd March
PCS members, other trades unionists and tax justice campaigners will be protesting outside parliament at lunchtime on Wednesday 23 March, just before chancellor George Osborne unveils his budget...
18 March 2011
17 March 2011
Kazakhstan: Free Esenbek Ukteshbayev!
16 March 2011
Ford pensioners protested outside Ford's UK & European HQ in Brentwood in Essex today
16 March 2011
Harrogate Action against cuts launched
16 March 2011
15 March 2011
Kazakhstan: protesters badly beaten and seven imprisoned
15 March 2011
October 2011 Jarrow march wins support of great grandson of 1930s' marcher
15 March 2011
8 March 2011
Southampton Medirest strike resumes
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