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10 May 2017
Sutton Coldfield socialist campaign stall
Birmingham Central Socialist Party branch held its first ever campaign stall in the uncharted territory of 'Royal' Sutton Coldfield
14 December 2016
Labour: Corbyn supporters need not apply
Birmingham Labour Party is reported to be excluding members who joined on or after July 2015 from selecting Labour candidates for the 2018 elections.
9 November 2016
Birmingham's Labour council freezes workers' pay
Trade unions representing Birmingham council workers have reached an "historic agreement" with the council which will mean a three-year pay freeze, instead of reduced sick pay, increased hours, a 1.35% pay cut and other cuts.
5 October 2016
Thousands march against Tory conference
Thousands took to the streets to 'take back Brum'
14 June 2016
Uber drivers strike against unfair fares
Around a thousand taxi drivers for multinational private hire firm Uber struck for 24 hours on 6 June. Strikers also protested outside Uber's Birmingham office at midday
1 June 2016
Birmingham Labour council takes credit for Tory privatisation
Birmingham City Council's troubled children's services are to be handed over to an 'independent' trust. The department has been in special measures for eight years following a string of high profile failures resulting in the deaths of vulnerable children.
30 March 2016
Academy chain axed in head's pay scandal
The poster boy for the 'academy' system has fallen from grace, in a scandal which exposes the dangers of Tory backdoor privatisation plans, writes Ted Woodley, Birmingham Central Socialist Party.
17 February 2016
Hannah Sell answered the false claim of sexism on the part of Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters really well in issue 885 of the Socialist, writes Clive Walder, Birmingham Socialist Party.
27 January 2016
Birmingham teachers strike to resist academy attack
Teaching staff in the NUT at Small Heath School in Birmingham have started nine days of strike action against the threat to turn it into an academy.
24 June 2015
Labour wields Tory axe at Library of Birmingham
150 people, a dalek, a crocodile and Mickey and Minnie Mouse protested on 13 June against cuts to the Library of Birmingham.
13 May 2015
Student occupation of Birmingham library
Students have twice occupied the Library of Birmingham to protest shortening opening hours and library closures across the city, writes James Brackley.
15 April 2015
We need a £10 an hour minimum wage
Rail worker and RMT transport union member Ted Woodley is standing for TUSC in the Birmingham Erdington seat
TUSC NHS 'credit card': The Health & Social Care Act Means: NHS Privatisation
18 September 2014
The struggle for decent social care - a personal account
Much of the social care system has been sold off to the private sector. Ann Parkes describes her desperate struggle to gain decent care for her husband
31 July 2014
Solidarity with Birmingham student occupiers
Students at the University of Birmingham have occupied a building to protest against the recent suspensions of two students for taking part in previous sit-ins, writes Nick Hart, Birmingham Socialist Party.
2 July 2014
Birmingham schools: Challenging Gove's agenda
Over 400 people attended a public meeting in Birmingham on 26 June after government attacks on some schools in predominantly Muslim areas of the city, writes Theo Sharieff Winston.
18 June 2014
Birmingham: new Socialist Party branch
The new Birmingham South East branch is up and running. Based in Acocks Green, a working-class suburb of Birmingham , the new branch regularly held local Saturday stalls and established a foothold among
22 January 2014
Benefits Street: A caricature of poverty
TV review: Channel 4's recent controversial "documentary" series, Benefits Street claimed to depict life for residents of poverty stricken James Turner Street in Winson Green, Birmingham
8 January 2014
Birmingham Labour 'consults' over £87 million cuts
Birmingham's Labour city council plans another £87 million of cuts in the 2014-15 financial year. As expected its 'consultation' was just an opportunity for the council leader to present a slick presentation
20 November 2013
Birmingham children's services - a victim of cuts
Birmingham city council's Children's Services Department faces the real threat of being taken over and possibly privatised by the hated government education minister Michel Gove if the upcoming Ofsted inspection fails to find significant improvements
2 October 2013
Set in Birmingham in 1919, new BBC drama Peaky Blinders gives a fictionalised account of the criminal outfit of that name in the early 20th century, giving an engaging snapshot of the political situation then, writes Nick Hart, Birmingham Socialist Party.
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