Archive for April 2013
1 April 2013
IDS - Try living on £53 a week!
Campaigners in Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) have joined a chorus of voices condemning government welfare reforms
2 April 2013
RMT concludes Steve Hedley has no case to answer
On 14 March, 2013 we reported that Steve Hedley, assistant general secretary of the RMT, had resigned from the Socialist Party
2 April 2013
Anti-cuts Warrington councillor supports Bedroom Tax protest
Warrington made a good start in its battle against the 'bedroom tax' on Saturday
2 April 2013
Fight to scrap the bedroom tax is underway in Swansea
60-70 protesters rallied in Swansea against the Bedroom Tax and to defend those who risk being its victims
2 April 2013
Lincoln: No Bedroom Tax evictions!
Lincoln TUSC held a protest to coincide with the national day of action against the Bedroom Tax
2 April 2013
PCS 'long weekend' of walkouts
Almost 250,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union are taking part in a 'long weekend' of walkouts as part of their three-month campaign over cuts to pay, pensions and conditions...
2 April 2013
Opposing the Bedroom Tax in Leeds
Across the city, Hands off our Homes has been organising meetings against the bedroom tax
3 April 2013
Video: Housing for the Counihans and All
This video tells the story of the Counihan-Sanchez family. Antony Counihan is a bus driver earning £400 a week, but their total household income is not enough to cover the cost of renting
3 April 2013
3 April 2013
Black April: The front page headline of the Guardian called 1 April "The day that Britain changed". A number of the Tories' hated flagship policies are now in force, or due to be implemented later this month...
3 April 2013
Don't miss May Day greetings deadline!
The deadline for sending May Day greeting messages to the Socialist - 10 April - is approaching fast, writes Bob Severn.
3 April 2013
First quarter fighting fund target smashed
Socialist Party members have begun 2013 in the way they finished 2012 - by continuing the fight against the attacks of the Con-Dem government and, in the process, continuing to smash the fighting fund targets, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
3 April 2013
Lakanal fire: Action needed to prevent a repeat tragedy
On Friday 3 July 2009, a devastating fire in Lakanal House in Camberwell, south London killed three women and three children, writes David Lewis, Sceaux Gardens tenants' and residents' association.
3 April 2013
Abolition of Agricultural Wages Board will result in increased rural poverty
The government is set to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) for agricultural workers in England and Wales in October...
3 April 2013
"Is green growth possible?" debated
Over 40 people crammed into Housmans Bookshop in north London on 27 March to hear a debate between the Socialist Party's Pete Dickenson and Derek Wall from the Green Party, writes Neil Cafferky.
3 April 2013
Workfare and the Labour Party: 'A less than stellar party'
Like many people I was astounded by the Parliamentary Labour Party abstention on the emergency legislation enacted to undo the legal victory won by Cait Reilly and Jamieson Wilson against forced workfare, writes Nancy Taaffe
3 April 2013
Call for national strike narrowly defeated at NUT conference
Tower Hamlets NUT joint strike action with Unison 31/3/11, photo by N Byron
Joint teachers' strike starts in north west on 27 June:NUT conference voted to back the priority motion on "Protecting Teachers, Defending Education", thus endorsing the plan of action agreed with the other main teaching union, NASUWT
3 April 2013
On 30 April around 15 pickets assembled outside St Johns Centre crown post office in Leeds as Communication Workers Union (CWU) members took strike action over plans to close or franchise 76 offices across the country
3 April 2013
Over 5,000 march in Glasgow against the Bedroom Tax
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
Over 5,000 people from across west Scotland and beyond marched in Glasgow on Saturday 30 March against the bedroom tax but also against the impact of savage austerity in all its forms, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland.
3 April 2013
Cyprus: Working people must not pay for crisis of euro and capitalism
Cyprus workers protest against the Cypriot government's deal with the Troika - the IMF, Central bank and the EU, photo AFPTV J. Massad
Niall Mulholland spoke with Athina Kariati from New Internationalist Left (CWI in Cyprus) about Cyprus's deal with the Troika, what it will mean for working people and what is the socialist solution to the crisis
3 April 2013
Thera East Midlands: Joe Warner, the (now former) managing director of Thera East Midlands has resigned. Unison members who are in dispute with the company had been wondering where he was!
3 April 2013
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
We must stop them!
The axe is about to be wielded again and this time it is a huge one. 'Black April' will see a further round of savage austerity, which will alter the very fabric of life, writes Peter Taaffe
3 April 2013
PCS: Striking against Con-Dem attacks
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
Build for joint action against austerity: The strike on 20 March was excellent, with an impressive turnout of PCS members. PCS vice president John McInally spoke to the Socialist about the next steps in the dispute
3 April 2013
Sussex University: occupation over but campaign continues
After nearly two months, the student occupation at Sussex University has ended in eviction by police at the request of university management
3 April 2013
Unite members strike against derecognition and downgrading
Yorkshire Ambulance Unite members took action on Tuesday against union derecognition and staff downgrading
3 April 2013
TUSC Mary4Mayor campaign launched in Doncaster
It was not the easiest week to start the Mary4Mayor election campaign, with snow and freezing temperatures
3 April 2013
Sick Of Your Boss: young people in work - your stories
I'm a first-year student midwife at a Birmingham NHS trust. I was well aware of the realities of the job before I started the course, from the grave responsibility of ensuring mother and baby are alive and well, to dealing with abusive families and social services matters, to coming home drenched in all manner of bodily fluids.
5 April 2013
Bedroom tax meeting in Swansea
30 Swansea residents met in Dyfatty Community Centre on Wednesday 3 April to discuss plans to resist the bedroom tax
5 April 2013
Solidly supported walkout, reports PCS
A half-day walkout by tens of thousands of Public and Commercial Services union members has been very solidly supported
8 April 2013
Thatcher's legacy: Brutal class warfare against the rights and the conditions of the working class
Cartoon by Alan Hardman
9 April 2013
Class survey diverts focus away from power of working class to change society
"Emergent service workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains" doesn't have the same ring to it, was one response to the recently published Great British Class Survey
10 April 2013
Bedroom tax: Can't pay - determined to stay!
The 'Bedroom Tax' has sparked fury over people being forced out of their homes by this hated government...
10 April 2013
'Forced out of work, forced out of Spain'
"No nos vamos, nos echan" - we're not leaving, we're being thrown out. This was the message of hundreds of young Spanish people on a protest in central London on 7 April, writes Sarah Wrack.
10 April 2013
Cheltenham marches against A&E cuts
Saturday 6 April saw around 300 people march through the centre of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, against plans to reduce night time staffing at the town's A&E, photo by Chris Moore
Saturday 6 April saw around 300 people march through the centre of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, against plans to reduce night time staffing at the town's A&E, writes Gregory Mouat, Gloucestershire Socialist Party.
10 April 2013
Greater Manchester: Stop extermination of our NHS
Campaigners from across Greater Manchester gathered at Media:City in Salford on the first day that the government's pro-privatisation measures against our NHS took effect
10 April 2013
PCS strike on budget day, 20 March 2013 with NSSN 24 hour general strike placard, photo Paul Mattsson
Government refuses to talk: PCS members across the civil service followed their budget-day strike on 20 March with half-day strikes on 5 and 8 April...
10 April 2013
PCS elections: vote Democracy Alliance/Left Unity
PCS members are encouraged to vote to maintain the fighting left leadership of the union in the national and group executive elections starting on 18 April...
10 April 2013
Fight the attacks on NHS working conditions
The 2012 staff survey results from the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are even worse than the previous year's results, which were grim enough, writes Sharon Mitchell, Brighton.
10 April 2013
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013, photo Jim Halfpenny
Millionaire, mansion-owning Con-Dem ministers have deemed an estimated 660,000 council and Housing Association households that claim housing benefit to be 'under-occupying' their homes
10 April 2013
Pickets discuss coordinated strikes
At one o'clock on 5 April, members of the civil servants' union PCS took a half day's strike action as part of their campaign against the government's austerity measures
10 April 2013
Hillsborough - never forgotten
This BBC4 programme Hillsborough - Never Forgotten on 3 April was a powerful reminder of events leading up to the recent Independent Panel's findings on the 1989 Hillsborough catastrophe
10 April 2013
HBOS scandal is just the tip of the iceberg
HBOS has been called the 'worst bank ever' after colossal losses resulted in a government-brokered merger with Lloyds and a subsequent taxpayer bailout of £20.5 billion, writes Matt Gordon, Bristol Socialist Party.
10 April 2013
Thatcher: a class warrior for capitalism
March against the Poll Tax
Thatcher will never be forgiven for the devastation that her Tory governments wrought on working class communities - that is still being felt today, writes Alistair Tice
10 April 2013
Fears of a nuclear conflict on the Korean peninsula increase
The escalation of fear and tension on the Korean peninsula, and far beyond, is not without justification, writes Clare Doyle
10 April 2013
Tories and press use Philpott case to attack 'welfare culture'
An advice worker explains what life on benefits is really like..
10 April 2013
Unison NEC elections: Vote for a fighting democratic union
Vote for Socialist Party and United Left candidates.
Elections for Unison's national executive (NEC) start on 22 April and run until 24 May.
10 April 2013
Con-Dems' latest cruel cut: Disability Living Allowance
Iain Duncan Smith, who claimed he could live on the Jobseeker's Allowance pittance of £53 a week, is the architect of the latest assault on disabled people...
10 April 2013
Warrington: Suspended for fighting the cuts
Kevin Bennett, Warrington Labour rebel councillor , photo by Adam Hemsley
Warrington Labour rebel councillor speaks to the Socialist: Kevin Bennett has been indefinitely suspended by the Labour group after he voted against cuts
10 April 2013
Thatcher death: readers respond 2
I went to get my morning newspaper and also needed a sympathy card for a relative. When I asked Shah, my local shopkeeper, where his sympathy cards were his eyes nearly popped out of his head
10 April 2013
Now let's bury Thatcher's legacy
Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, as she will always be remembered, photo Alan Hardman
TUC call a 24-hour general strike!: It is a human response to be sad when somebody dies. But many working class people will be celebrating Margaret Thatcher's death because of the absolutely destructive and long lasting effect she had
10 April 2013
Thatcher's death: readers respond 1
Cartoon Alan Hardman
The real tragedy is that while she may be dead herself her ideas are still alive and well in the form of the Con-Dem coalition and New Labour, writes Dave Nellist
10 April 2013
Halt the Thatcherite onslaught - TUC must call a 24-hour general strike!
When people try to remember where they were when they heard that Maggie Thatcher had died, their reaction will tell us everything about her legacy
10 April 2013
Doncaster: 60 at Mary4Mayor rally
Bob Crow, RMT general secretary, addresses the Trade Unionists and Socialist Coalition in Doncaster for Mary Jackson, photo A Tice
Mary Jackson's Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) election campaign for Doncaster mayor held a successful launch meeting on 2 April...
10 April 2013
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
In council elections in May 5% of the seats will have a fighting anti-austerity alternative on offer
11 April 2013
Peter Taaffe speaks on BBC radio
The Socialist Party's general secretary was interviewed by BBC Radio on whether there should be protests at Thatcher's funeral
11 April 2013
Combating violence against women: A socialist perspective on fighting women's oppression
Pic: Sarah Wrack
A statement "Our movement must be a safe place for women" by two Unison activists has been posted online and has received the support of trade union activists, including leading figures
16 April 2013
Initial Statement on Boston Marathon Tragedy from Socialist Alternative
The bombings today at the Boston Marathon are an absolute tragedy and a horror that shouldn't happen in Boston or anywhere else in the world, writes Reposted from Socialist Alternative in the USA, sister party of the Socialist Party, posted. Apr 15, 2013.
17 April 2013
Doncaster: fighting for a working class mayor on a workers' wage
Doncaster has 225,000 voters concentrated in the town and several outlying ex-mining villages
17 April 2013
Ineffectual Ed visits South West
Ed Miliband avoids protesters against the Bedroom tax, photo by Chris Moore
Waiting for Labour leader Ed Miliband to arrive in Stroud as part of his whistle stop election tour of the South West, one person asked which direction he was coming, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Socialist Party.
17 April 2013
Unemployment: We're told that Thatcher 'saved the country'. But unemployment skyrocketed under her governments - from 1.09 million in May 1979 to 3.13 million in July 1986. And these figures were probably an underestimate...
17 April 2013
Glasgow demonstration against the bedroom tax and austerity 30 March 2013 , photo by Jim Halfpenny
Feature: Fifty anti-cuts campaigners and bedroom tax victims lobbied to demand the council re-classify homes as having fewer bedrooms and commits to no evictions for rent arrears as a result of the bedroom tax. Reports from around the country.
17 April 2013
Support the paper that beat Thatcher - twice!
Readers of the Socialist will have been sickened by the acres of newsprint and hours of television that have been devoted to worshipping Margaret Thatcher and her record, writes Ken Douglas, Socialist Party national treasurer.
17 April 2013
NUS conference votes against free education and EMA
In 2012, the National Union of Students (NUS) conference mandated the union to call a national demo to launch the fightback against the government's attacks on education, writes Ronnie Smith, Sheffield Socialist Students.
17 April 2013
Welsh NHS cuts - no change of heart from Labour
Ed Miliband said, at Labour Party Wales Conference, that he wants the shadow cabinet to come to Wales and learn from the good things that the Welsh Government is doing, writes Ronnie Job.
17 April 2013
Brutal Saudi regime supported by UK government
On 13 March, seven young men were executed in Saudi Arabia by firing squad. They were reportedly arrested in January 2006 and charged with organising a criminal group, armed robbery and breaking into jewellery...
17 April 2013
NHS cost-cutting is damaging patient care
NHS demonstration to save the Whittington hospital in north London,16 March 2013 , photo by Paul Mattsson
Defend our health service: Last autumn it emerged that 120 breast cancer test errors had happened between 2004 and 2010 at Kings Mill Hospital in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, writes Karen Seymour, Mansfield Socialist Party.
17 April 2013
Measles - the preventable epidemic: Measles is now epidemic in South-West Wales, with nearly 700 cases reported this year. Vaccination rates across Britain and the US have tumbled in recent years largely due to the pseudo-scientific "antivax"...
17 April 2013
After an 82% vote for strike action, Unison members in Thera East Midlands (TEM) will be on a 24-hour strike starting on 18 April. The ballot also gives leeway for further strikes if necessary, writes Gary Freeman, Unison Rep, South Derbyshire Healthcare, personal capacity.
17 April 2013
Len McCluskey re-elected as Unite general secretary: Len McCluskey has been re-elected as general secretary of Unite, with 64% of the vote (144,570). Jerry Hicks received 79,819 votes (35%). The turnout was 15.2%...
17 April 2013
Widespread caste discrimination ignored in the UK
STOP PRESS: widespread caste discrimination is ignored in the UK. Thousands of protesters from south Asian backgrounds raised their anger over this issue outside parliament on 16 April. Anger was directed...
17 April 2013
New phase of campaign against Dewsbury NHS cuts
Saturday 20 April will see the march against NHS cuts in Dewsbury (previously postponed because of snow) take place at 12pm outside the Town Hall.
17 April 2013
Meeting and exhibition marking 30 years since the election of Liverpool's socialist council
Liverpool city council's struggle in 1983-87 for more funding from the Thatcher government was an inspriation to workers, photo Dave Sinclair
Saturday 27 April, 10.30am
Adelphi Hotel, Lime Street, Liverpool
Speakers include: Unite general secretary Len McCluskey, PCS president Janice Godrich, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe, Liverpool Labour Party president (1980-85) and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged councillor Tony Mulhearn, former Labour MP Tony Benn and 'Liverpool 47' surcharged counc...
17 April 2013
Maltby pit closure: TUSC councillor speaks out
On 6 April, hundreds of miners marched in Maltby, South Yorkshire to mark the closure of the town's colliery...
17 April 2013
Warrington council rebel builds fight against cuts
Kevin Bennett, Warrington Labour rebel councillor, addresses the 70-strong lobby of the Labour councillors' meeting to suspend him, photo Adam Hemsley
Following on from the 4 April demonstration outside the disciplinary hearing of rebel Labour councillor Kevin Bennett, a joint meeting of Warrington Trades Council and the newly formed Warrington Against the Cuts was held on 10 April.
17 April 2013
60% oppose Thatcher's funeral costs being paid from public funds
A ComRes survey for the Independent on Sunday and the Sunday Mirror found that 60% were opposed to Margaret Thatcher's funeral costs being paid for out of public funds...
17 April 2013
Unison elections: Vote for Socialist Party and Reclaim the Union candidates
Glenn Kelly at Socialist Party congress 2013, photo Senan
Elections for Unison's national executive (NEC) start on 22 April and run until 24 May...
17 April 2013
photo Paul Mattsson
Time for a 24-hour general strike The poorest face swingeing cuts; disabled people are penalised even more; and to top it all, cuts to housing benefit for the 'crime' of having a so-called spare bedroom have kicked in
17 April 2013
Thatcher's funeral costs: Insulting the lives she ruined
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, said: "The news that Margaret Thatcher is to receive a ceremonial funeral subsidised by the taxpayer is an insult"
17 April 2013
Unison health conference: Time to fight back against attacks
Health workers are facing wholesale privatisation, huge cuts and closure of wards, services and even entire hospitals
17 April 2013
Time to name the day for a 24-hour general strike
TUC demo 20 October 2012 with placard calling for a 24 hour general strike , photo Senan
No ifs, no buts...: The death of Thatcher has revealed the deep class polarisation that existed under her governments and still exists in British society, writes Rob Williams, Socialist Party industrial organiser.
18 April 2013
Angry workers protest outside Ford's UK headquarters
Workers from Ford's Dagenham Stamping & Tooling Operations plant finished their night shift and descended on Ford's UK headquarters
18 April 2013
22 April 2013
Responding to distortions about Liverpool's socialist council
An open letter responding to an article by the Independent's Jane Merrick, from Tony Mulhearn, surcharged Liverpool City Councillor and last elected president of the Liverpool District Labour Party.
22 April 2013
United show of opposition to NHS cuts in Dewsbury
Around 300 protesters crowded into Dewsbury town centre in favour of maintaining all services at the local hospital
22 April 2013
Kiln workers enter third week of strike
Morale was high as expert 'burners', kiln workers at Kings Dyke brick works, in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire entered the third week of their strike
22 April 2013
Waltham Forest victims of bedroom tax are 'up for a fight'
Last week's issue of the Socialist reported that Waltham Forest Anti-Cuts Union (WFACU) had sprung into action against the bedroom tax,
22 April 2013
London: Nearly two-thirds are struggling with their rent
West London Socialist Party members are out campaigning against the bedroom tax, and last week organised a meeting
22 April 2013
Stafford hospital: Massive march in support of NHS
Accumulated anger at years of attacks on Stafford hospital and its hard working staff erupted onto the streets on Saturday
23 April 2013
Big march against the bedroom tax in Leeds
Over 1,000 people marched on the Hands off our Homes organised demonstration through Leeds city centre on Saturday 20th April
23 April 2013
CWU continues support for a 24-hour general strike
CWU conference was held against the backdrop of unprecedented attacks
24 April 2013
Unite - build a fighting union
Len McCluskey of Unite speaking at the 20 October 2012 TUC demo against austerity , photo by Paul Mattsson
The victory of Len McCluskey in the Unite general secretary election with 64.4% of the vote against fellow left-winger Jerry Hicks will be seen by the union's membership as ratifying the general direction of Unite since Len first took the position in 2011, writes Kevin Parslow, Unite London and Eastern regional committee, personal capacity.
24 April 2013
"This is the first time I have ever been out on strike and my first protest. I have really enjoyed the protest at Grantham today and will do it again if I have to."...
24 April 2013
Crossrail: The battle against blacklisting in the construction industry is continuing with high-profile protests in the last few days...
24 April 2013
Organise to bin the bedroom tax
How our campaign can win: To charge tenants who are already on low incomes for having a room where people they are close to can stay is just about the meanest trick of a government which has a world-class reputation for mean tricks, writes Paul Gerrard, Salford against Cuts.
24 April 2013
South Africa: Workers and Socialist Party
Workers and Socialist Party Registers at the Electorial Commission in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa, photo S Figg
First steps toward uniting struggles: Following the launch of the new Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) on 21 March, work is continuing to complete the formal registration of the party and establish its structures across South Africa, writes Liv Shange, DSM South Africa.
24 April 2013
Scottish TUC supports 24-hour general strike against austerity
The Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC) has passed a motion in support of a one-day general strike in Scotland in response to the savage austerity being carried out by the Con-Dem government, writes Philip Stott.
24 April 2013
The Con-Dems' Health and Social Care Act (England) ends the government's duty to provide comprehensive free healthcare and removes the NHS from parliamentary control...
24 April 2013
Caste discrimination: MPs side with oppressors not oppressed
Hundreds protested outside parliament on 14 April to demand the outlawing of caste oppression in Britain, writes Senan, Tamil Solidarity international coordinator.
24 April 2013
Cold, hungry, young and homeless
I live in rural Derbyshire. We have a couple of large outbuildings and young homeless men often shelter in them, writes Sandy.
24 April 2013
Why we're standing against cuts
Vote Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition on 2 May: Central to TUSC's Mary for Mayor election campaign in Doncaster has been organising against the bedroom tax...
24 April 2013
20 years after murder of Stephen Lawrence
When mass action and class unity beat back the fascists: Twenty years ago, the black teenager Stephen Lawrence was brutally murdered by five thugs in a racist attack in Eltham, south east London...
24 April 2013
Times Rich List: Super-rich get richer ... again
Unemployment: The Sunday Times Rich List is always a sickening read. A who's-who of Britain and Ireland's biggest exploiters, heirs and speculators - scroungers of the worst kind...
24 April 2013
Homes for all: For all those 70,000-plus people affected by the bedroom tax in London, who the Con-Dems suggest might move into the private sector, look no further than a lovely new property just come on to the market
24 April 2013
As Usdaw delegates descended on Blackpool for our ADM (conference), Morrisons have announced 689 job losses across its 490 stores as a result of introducing new technology into cash offices
24 April 2013
Edmund Schluessel elected to NUS executive
Socialist Students is celebrating an excellent result in the NUS 'Block of 15' elections.
24 April 2013
Stop Gove hacking our school hols
Teachers - and many parents - have been shocked by Tory minister Gove's announcement that he wants to lengthen the school day and shorten holidays
24 April 2013
Break with Thatcher's legacy! - Socialist policies needed
Protests at Thatcher's Funeral, photo Paul Mattsson
"We are all Thatcherites now," declared Tory leader David Cameron on the day of Thatcher's funeral. "Oh no, we're not!" roared back the working class in Goldthorpe, where over 1,000 protested, in Liverpool, Glasgow and London.
Feature by Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary.
24 April 2013
May Day 8-page greetings supplement
International Workers' Day marks the first US-wide general strike that took place on 1 May 1886 and commemorates the Haymarket Martyrs killed in Chicago by the police...
24 April 2013
Stop the bedroom tax - Hands off our homes!
Politicians keep inviting us to feel sorry for them as they have to make tough choices - choices of whose jobs, whose terms and conditions, whose services to cut. That's not a tough choice as far as we're concerned. If you represent working class people you don't make cuts.
24 April 2013
TUC: Set the date for a 24-hour general strike!
Up to 200 trade unionists, workers and campaigners lobbied the TUC general council this morning, 24th April
25 April 2013
Review of 'South Africa: The Massacre that Changed a Nation', BBC2 April 24th
South Africa: The Massacre that Changed a Nation - BBC2 Wednesday, 24th April, photo BBC screen shot
Labour MP Peter Hain returned to his native South Africa to try to discover why the ANC government is losing the support of the black working class
25 April 2013
Anti-academy strike in Birmingham
A lively picket of 30 teachers gathered at the gates of Hamstead Hall secondary school in Birmingham on Thursday 25th April as part of a one day strike against management bulldozing through plans to become an academy, writes Nick Hart, Birmingham Socialist Party.
26 April 2013
Thatcher's funeral day in Newbridge
The 17th of April wasn't a day to remember Thatcher, but a day to reflect with pride on the working class heroes who fought her
26 April 2013
Plymouth council asks for scrapping of bedroom tax
Plymouth City Council has voted 34 votes to 20 to write to the government asking the Con-Dems to scrap the bedroom tax
26 April 2013
Ordsall anti-bedroom tax campaign launched
Over fifty people attended a lively launch of Salford's newest anti bedroom tax campaign
26 April 2013
Strike by Swansea RMT train managers
"The one day strike has arisen because one of our train managers [ticket inspectors/guards] has been disgracefully sacked after an incident which occurred on a train when he was on leave, said Peter Skelly, full time RMT regional organiser
29 April 2013
Scottish Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation launched
Saturday 27th April saw over 250 delegates and visitors from across the length and breadth of Scotland attend the conference to found the 'All Scottish Anti Bedroom Tax Federation'
29 April 2013
Enthusiastic launch of Wales TUSC committee
RMT Council of Executives member Steve Skelly made the opening remarks at a meeting to launch a TUSC Wales steering committee
30 April 2013
Justice for 'the 33' sacked tube workers
After 5 years' work for London Underground, 33 agency workers were sacked in December
30 April 2013
Transport union RMT will be turning the spotlight on rail cuts this May Day
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