Reports and campaigns

Gateshead campaigners told to 'move house' if they don't like waste-site plans

In Wrekenton, the Campground Action Committee was set up to fight proposals being put forward by French multinational SITA

Hundreds of Liverpool Sure Start parents demonstrate against cuts

Liverpool Sure Start parents and children came together to demand that Liverpool City Council hear their reaction to the proposed 53% cuts to children centre services

Unite's Health officer explains the need to strike

Up to 100,000 members of Unite, working for the NHS will be staging protests and industrial action on Thursday, 10 May over attacks to their pensions...

Planning for the Planet

Emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change have escalated to critical levels. Pete Dickenson indicts the representatives of the capitalist market system, citing the antagonisms between the major industrial powers.

Swinton teachers strike against job losses

Two dozen teachers at Swinton Comprehensive School, near Rotherham, members of the NUT, took one day strike action on Tuesday 17th April, to oppose compulsory redundancies

Usdaw conference

Time to fight the attacks on pay and working conditions: From workfare to Sunday trading hours, to shop closures and redundancies, issues affecting the retail sector have featured prominently in the national news over the last few months, writes an Usdaw member.

Pro-choice action in Worthing

Abort67 is an anti-choice group that draws its name from its opposition to the 1967 Abortion Act. They claim to be 'providing information' to women outside family planning clinics where abortions take place

Re-elect the PCS fighting leadership

PCS has played a vital role in countering the government's austerity plans, particularly on pensions. This means it is vitally important that the union retains its fighting left leadership...

No to cuts: make the bosses pay!

"I wish I was old enough to vote," a woman said to me, "you'd get my vote. With all these cuts I just don't know how I'm going to survive.", writes Graham O'Reilly, Southampton.

Come and hear TUSC candidates standing in your area

Thursday 19 April 7-9pm, Cardiff Bus Sports and Social Club, Tudor St, Riverside...

Changing the trade unions into combative organisations

To win change in society workers need audacity, determination and organisation. A London bus worker writes that often you need to start by transforming your own union branch...

Obituary: Arthur Deane

We are sad to learn of the death of Arthur Deane, an active worker in my early years in the Trotskyist movement...

Disabled people fighting back

The Con-Dem attacks on the welfare state and workers' rights bear down particularly heavily on disabled people, writes Neil Cafferky.

Success at Varndean College, Brighton

I recently stood, with some friends who share similar political beliefs to me, for election to positions in Varndean College, Brighton, writes Ewan Atkinson.

TUSC campaign reaching out across the length and breadth of London

Everywhere we go in London, election campaigners for the London Assembly election list of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition are getting support

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

East London and the Olympics

2012 is the year that London hosts the Olympics, the greatest sporting event in the world. The event has been promoted as bringing great opportunity and hope to those working and living in the surrounding boroughs...

Next threat to under-25s: Housing Benefit

Chancellor George Osborne's 2012 Budget seems to provide new sources of anger every week. Con-Dem ministers' recent kite-flying exercise is the idea that no one under 25 should get housing benefit

DWP tells young people to bail out big business

When I last visited the Jobcentre I was given two letters. I was told I should attach them to any CVs or job applications I sent out, writes a job seeker.

Living to work, not working to live

I went on the government's workfare scheme out of sheer desperation, having been unemployed for over two years. My dad took early retirement so I had to start bringing more money in, writes a supermarket worker.