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Campaigns are taking place across Britain to save children's services, photo Socialist Party
24 October 2012
Birmingham: cuts put children at risk
Birmingham's social services are in the spotlight once again. Ofsted has slammed Birmingham City Council, rating the quality of their care of vulnerable children as 'inadequate'
10 October 2012
Birmingham Tory conference demo
Marchers support call for 24-hour general strike: A ring of steel greeted protesters who were in Birmingham to show their anger outside the Tory conference on Sunday 7 October, writes Tony Leigh, Birmingham Socialist Party.
Massive student demo in London called by the NUS expresses anger against cuts, photo T.U. Senan
3 October 2012
Building the fightback in the universities
Sheffield: As students arrive at their university campuses this year they are being met by the most vicious assault on the right to an education seen in generations...
22 August 2012
On Saturday 18 August 200 people marched through Birmingham to demand justice for the family of Kingsley Burrell, writes Nick Hart.
23 May 2012
Stockland Green march for jobs
Stockland Green Against the Cuts (SGAC) organised a successful protest and march for youth jobs in Erdington, Birmingham, on 19 May, writes Ted Smith.
29 February 2012
McWorkfare - "Let's campaign until it's stopped completely"
On Monday protesters were at McDonald's in Sheffield to voice disgust at the Con-Dems' forced labour schemes. Also read on for reports from Leeds, Birmingham and Wakefield
10 February 2012
Forty years ago today, a miners' strike for a fairer pay system saw some of the biggest demonstrations of workers' power since World War Two. Heath's government was trying to enforce a pay restraint policy in the teeth of rising inflation, writes Bill Mullins
HS2 - The second high speed line in Britain - government advert
1 February 2012
Debate: Should socialists support the HS2 rail line?
Developing efficient public transport: The second high speed line (HS2) in Britain (the first being the channel tunnel link from London to Paris) would initially connect London to Birmingham by 2026 with a journey time of 49 minutes, writes Mark Pickersgill, Stevenage Socialist Party.
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.
19 October 2011
Birmingham youth service ravaged by cuts
Young people have been hit hard by the cuts in Birmingham. On top of attacks to education like the scrapping of EMA and £9,000 tuition fees, Birmingham city council has targeted numerous youth services...
17 October 2011
Around 30 trade unionists attended the West Midlands conference of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) held in Birmingham on Saturday
5 October 2011
Students join the socialists as fury grows over cuts and fees
Socialist Students has had an excellent response at this year's freshers fairs. Fury is the most frequently displayed emotion whenever the government or bankers are mentioned
21 September 2011
Bus workers force management climb-down
During August, National Express West Midlands (NXWM) bosses informed drivers at its nine garages that practically all local agreements would be torn up from 25 September
18 September 2011
Protest at Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham
Assemble 11am at Granville street (junction with Tennant street, Birmingham to move off at 12 noon. A post march rally will be held opposite Millennium point, writes Organised by the TUC.
16 August 2011
Birmingham peace rally shows need for jobs and services, not cuts
About 3,000 people came to Summerfield Park in Birmingham on Sunday to honour the memory of the three young men tragically killed in the riots
15 July 2011
Voting starts for the National and Industrial executive committees of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) on 18 July...
Photo S O'Neill
6 July 2011
Birmingham - the fightback begins
In Birmingham on 30 June, striking teachers, lecturers and civil servants were joined by thousands of local government workers who are fighting brutal attacks on their terms and conditions
6 July 2011
30 June pension strike reports
The 30 June coordinated strike action by the PCS civil service union and NUT, ATL and UCU teaching unions was a historic event
Birmingham strike 2008
8 June 2011
Birmingham: city of a thousand cuts
Birmingham has been hit hard by the ongoing capitalist crisis. Unemployment stands at 11.6% and the city is now facing brutal council led cuts
Pensioners and elderly disabled people protesting against cuts in services outside Waltham Forest council, photo Paul Mattsson
11 May 2011
Defend independent living rights
In April, Elaine McDonald, a former prima ballerina with the Scottish Ballet, took her fight to maintain her dignity and stop cuts to her care package to the Supreme Court, an Independent Living Fund user writes.
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