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17 October 2018
Devon foster carers fight 30% cut in allowances
If austerity is over, no-one told the Tory councillors of Devon County Council. Foster carers are to have their allowances cut by 30%.
26 September 2018
Residents push back Barking estate landlords
At a recent residents' meeting with the landlords of the Barking Riverside estate, they put a price on the major concessions we have wrung out of them in a bitter three-year campaign - £250,000.
26 September 2018
Militant was right - councils can fight cuts
"Conference, we are in Liverpool where over 30 years ago the council stood up to Thatcher and said: better to break the law than break the poor", said shadow equalities minister Dawn Butler at Labour Party conference
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.
22 August 2018
Waltham Forest Labour council votes to close library - campaign goes on
Libraries come from a tradition of workers' self-education. Their heyday was the 1950s when workers laboured in the factories and mines and libraries serviced a certain deprivation of the 'soul'.
7 August 2018
Low-paid care workers are striking for 14 days against Birmingham Labour council's cuts
25 July 2018
Kentish Road victory: Respite centre saved by determined campaign
"This has not been the city council's finest hour", said Southampton Labour's new leader as he announced that Kentish Road Respite Centre is to be reopened. He apologised to all the families who use the centre for what they have been put through.
6 July 2018
Pressure building on councillors to stop fire service cuts
Firefighters on Merseyside are resisting devastating cuts being implemented by the Labour-run fire authority
20 June 2018
Knowsley council pushed back on cuts and privatisation
The right-wing Labour group in Knowsley council, Merseyside, has been forced into a climbdown on two important measures.
20 June 2018
Leeds: Disability campaigners force council to retreat
Parents involved in the Disability Empowerment Action Links (Deal) group have pushed Leeds City Council into 'pausing' its plans to cut special education needs transport to over-16s.
6 June 2018
Liverpool meeting remembers 47 councillors who fought and defeated Thatcher in 1980s
Three decades since the House of Lords surcharged the Liverpool 47 councillors, the Liverpool 47 group organised this event on 25 May in Liverpool city centre to remember the heroic anti-cuts struggle
6 June 2018
West Midlands firefighters vote to strike in massive numbers
West Midlands firefighters have voted by 90% to take strike action against exploitative conditions for new fire service workers. They are being introduced by the Labour-led West Midlands Fire Authority (WMFA).
25 May 2018
Action demanded from new council
In a fantastic show of unity, campaigners from across the spectrum of local issues came together
23 May 2018
Victory: how school strike beat 'academy' privatisers
School workers in Newham, east London, stopped Avenue Primary School becoming a privately run 'academy' earlier this month
9 May 2018
Obituary: Tony Byrne 1939 - 2018
The labour movement has suffered a blow by the death of our good comrade, ex-Liverpool city Labour councillor Tony Byrne.
9 May 2018
Strong TUSC result in Huddersfield
In Huddersfield, with little time and scant resources, we chalked up almost 1,000 votes between us.
9 May 2018
TUSC stands against Birmingham council's cuts and attacks on workers
On 1 May Birmingham Socialist Party held a successful public meeting about the local elections, the cuts and how councils can fight them.
9 May 2018
TUSC vote up in Waltham Forest but many voters stay away
While campaigning in Waltham Forest, Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) campaigners encountered rage among people suffering under the right-wing Labour council.
9 May 2018
Haringey councillors need to fight austerity now
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in Haringey provided a glimpse of what a genuine anti-cuts socialist campaign would look like.
9 May 2018
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) stood 111 council candidates in 33 authorities in the local elections, contesting 101 wards.
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