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17 June 2020
Cumbria: Teachers, parents and socialists fight reckless school reopening
Socialist Party members in Cumbria have been active as teachers and parents in the campaign against the reckless attempt to prematurely reopen schools without safety guarantees
11 March 2020
Camarthenshire: Councillors' 'walk of shame'
Plaid Cymru councillors voting for the cuts had to walk the 'walk of shame' past us to get into the council meeting, writes Mark Evans, Carmarthenshire County Unison branch secretary (personal capacity).
11 March 2020
Is there an anti-cuts rebellion in Scotland?
In Scotland, both Scottish National Party (SNP) and Labour councillors continue to be complicit in implementing cuts, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland.
4 March 2020
Labour councils miss opportunity to stop Tory cuts
In the same week at the end of February, three Labour councils in the south - Brighton, Reading and Southampton - had an opportunity to use Labour's strongholds in southern England to rally opposition to further Tory austerity and set no-cuts budgets to defend jobs and services.
12 February 2020
Cuts councillors are the real problem
The attention-seeking, right-wing Labour leader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes, described by the Guardian as "the leader of Labour's 6,600-strong army of councillors", has attacked Corbyn for being out of touch with Labour voters and disregarding local councillors' experiences.
22 January 2020
Make a stand: set legal no-cuts council budgets
Defend jobs, services and communities. Reports from Carmarthenshire, Peterborough, Swansea, Enfield
22 January 2020
Council cuts continue... So must the fightback
Boris Johnson says austerity is over. So as councils prepare to set budgets next month, everyone - Johnson, the Labour leadership candidates, trade union leaders, councillors of every shade will be asked, "what are you going to do to stop council cuts?"
22 January 2020
To win back working-class trust Labour must take the 'Liverpool road'
The Labour leadership candidates at the first hustings pursued the theme: How can Labour win the trust of the working class?
11 December 2019
Save Our Square campaigners have been battling for years against a 'redevelopment' plan
27 November 2019
End council cuts now, to end Tory austerity!
A decade of attacks on the working class has sharply hit local councils.
30 October 2019
Opinion: Labour Party is structured to block left councillors
Blairite councillors are doing everything they can to prevent councils standing up to the Tories and defending their communities like Tony Mulhearn and the 'Liverpool 47' councillors did from 1983 to 1987.
25 September 2019
Standing up for the needs of working-class people
An interview with socialist no-cuts councillor Tolga Aramaz
17 July 2019
Hackney transport strike - blockade foils employers
Unite union drivers and passenger assistants at Hackney council have been on strike
17 July 2019
Leicestershire - No more austerity!
'We will pay you £60 to attend a consultation session with Leicestershire County Council.' I couldn't believe that I had heard the man correctly. £60 to tell them what I think of them. Count me in!
17 July 2019
Newham housing repairs workers announce strike dates
Unite the Union members employed by Newham Council in its housing repairs service have agreed dates for the start of strike action. This follows a 100% yes vote in the ballot.
19 June 2019
Council cuts continue while reserves rise
Local authorities in England are sitting on almost £22 billion of financial reserves, £5 billion more than the year before, the Sunday Times reports, writes Dave Walsh, Liverpool council worker and Unite member.
12 June 2019
Edmonton joins Enfield North Labour in supporting 'no cuts' fightback strategy
Edmonton Constituency has become the second Enfield Labour Party to pass a resolution opposing all cuts, calling for 'no-cuts' budgets using reserves and for launching a mass campaign.
23 May 2019
Warning lights flashing for Corbynism
The promise of the Corbyn insurgency that began in 2015 is in danger. The triumph of the left-wing backbench outsider in the Labour leadership election four years ago opened up the prospect of overturning Tony Blair's 1990s transmutation of the Labour Party into New Labour.
22 May 2019
The Birmingham home carers' 20-month long dispute has ended in victory
22 May 2019
Worcester Tories stonewall action on climate change
Over 100 climate change activists lobbied Worcestershire County Council on 16 May to demand emergency action to save the planet.
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