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6 February 2019
Worcestershire: save the libraries, reverse all the cuts
Worcestershire's Tory county council wants to close nine community libraries, and sack workers and reduce opening hours in at least six others. We say no! Enough is enough!
9 January 2019
Grayling's attacks on rail workers wages 'un-fare'
The government continues to claim that Britain's economy is doing great and that everyone's wages are sky high.
28 November 2018
"Horrendous" - Bristol's privatised buses
Bristol Socialist Party member Frankie Langeland called a protest after late and cancelled buses repeatedly made her seven-month-old baby miss bedtimes and even forced her to breastfeed by the side of the road.
7 November 2018
Another victory against NHS privatisation
Bolton hospital cleaners, caterers, porters and other workers have won a dispute.
24 October 2018
Health services in meltdown - fight to save our NHS
In the last two years, infant mortality rates in England and Wales have risen for the first time in over a century.
24 October 2018
Tories ensured Carillion meltdown went unchecked
The story of the catastrophic collapse of Carillion took an even more shocking turn recently
24 October 2018
Blairites plan to expand their very own academy chain
You would think that Labour politicians would be in favour of running schools that meet children's needs, unpolluted by the pursuit of profit and accountable to the communities that uses them. Well, these values are not held by Blairites who are at odds with Corbyn's plans to scrap the semi-privatised academy schools system.
3 October 2018
York NHS workers strike against privatisation
Pickets made their voices heard on the first day of strike action against York Hospital transferring ancillary staff into a 'wholly owned subsidiary'
19 September 2018
York health workers say no to privatisation
Unite union members at York NHS Trust voted by a massive majority to strike against privatisation
12 September 2018
Reading council plans privatisation - set a no-cuts budget instead!
Reading Borough Council plans to privatise many of its key services. Bins, parks, road maintenance, housing benefit payments and council tax support are all at risk.
12 September 2018
School students in solitary: for full funding, not exclusion!
'Isolation booths' - solitary confinement in all but name - are an increasingly common feature of 'zero-tolerance' school behaviour policies.
29 August 2018
Capitalism is a chaotic, irrational system - we need socialist change
On all fronts - from the environment and infrastructure, to jobs and services, to health and wellbeing - this system is failing us. It's no wonder that people are looking for an alternative.
29 August 2018
Battle growing against Loch Lomond area big business sell-off
A major battle has broken out over the £30 million privatisation of land in Loch Lomond, West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, which has given rise to fresh resistance against the for-profit model of big business.
29 August 2018
NHS services are showing the strain of cuts, privatisation and insufficient funding.
22 August 2018
Prison crisis: a catastrophe of cuts and privatisation
Birmingham Prison has become the latest in a long line of catastrophic failures of privatisation
22 August 2018
End Runcorn school PFI rip off
Schools, colleges and universities are struggling under the weight of cutbacks forced on them by Tory austerity. In Halton, Cheshire, a wave of cuts, poor management and an ill thought out private finance initiative scheme have created crisis in the local education system.
22 August 2018
Keep Middlesbrough hospital staff in the NHS
Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough is a 365-bed mental health site built using a private finance initiative eight years ago at a cost of £75 million. By the end of the contract Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Health Trust will have paid out £328 million plus maintenance costs.
22 August 2018
Blairites go on saving Tories - boot them all out!
The Tory party's painful breakdown continues, as hardcore neoliberal Remainers like Anna Soubry pull in one direction, and right-wing populists like Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg pull in the other.
14 August 2018
Victory: NHS workers say no to privatisation
Unison members in estates and facilities at Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust were due to strike
8 August 2018
Take on probation privatisation with union action
The experiment of using private companies' for probation services has resulted in a worse service for staff and for prisoners
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