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Southampton

Save our Services!

IN SOUTHAMPTON, Socialists are backing the building of a united campaign of taxpayers and council workers to stop over £6 million worth of cuts. Southampton Save our Services (SOS) members are standing in the 3 May elections. Nick Chaffey (Socialist Alternative - Save our Services) is standing in Bevois ward and Neil Kelly (Save our Services) in Portswood ward.

Victories can be won when the community and trade unions mobilise against cuts. The campaign over the last four years to save St Mary's Leisure Centre recently won the £250,000 refurbishment of the centre.

The joint action of trade unions, community groups and SOS recently forced the council to withdraw some cuts but the council budget retains massive cuts to services which still threaten jobs.

SOS opposes all cuts to local services and plans to privatise. We believe the council budget deficit should be met by central government funding. We need to fight for it.

* Full support for the care workers and all council workers taking action to defend job and services.

* No to privatisation.

* No redundancies and no cuts in services.

* For a council budget that meets the real needs of the city, fully funded by central government.

Nick Chaffey

In this issue

Blair's legacy... war, cuts & privatisation

Civil servants' union May Day strike

Free Arrested activists now

Socialist Students

Join the campaign to defeat fees

No victimisation - support Deeside college lecturers

Campaign to Defeat Fees National Meeting

Socialist Party election analysis

New Labour - lowest poll ratings since 1983

Come to the Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference

Campaign for a New Workers' Party conference

Support for Labour falling in Scotland

Campaigning for socialist ideas in South Wales

Huddersfield: Fighting against NHS cuts and closures

Coventry socialists fight Post Office closure

Southampton: Save our Services!

Brighton: Stop privatisation

Merseyside: Tweedledee, Tweedledum, Bootle has a real socialist alternative

Manchester Wythenshawe: NHS cuts threaten lives

Donate to fund a socialist alternative

Socialist solidarity on May Day

International socialist news and analysis

Socialist wins court battle in Kazakhstan

France: Record turnout sees Royal and Sarkozy go through to second round

Yeltsin's real record - 'wild capitalism' in Russia

US mass shooting horror

Nigerian elections - a dangerous farce

Socialist Party workplace news

Support the Sunvic strikers

UNISON Delegates demand action

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