5 August 2021

Waltham Forest Socialist Party: Flooding, homelessness, cuts... Walthamstow needs a re-set - what's the socialist plan?

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28 July 2021

Tower Hamlets Labour backs Tory cuts

Hugo Pierre is standing for TUSC in Weavers

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21 July 2021

Government departments move to impose pay cuts

Only by fighting will extra money be secured for pay and permanent contracts.

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14 July 2021

Dagenham school workers strike against 'fire and rehire' pay cuts

School workers at Valence Primary School in Dagenham, east London are on strike against grim mistreatment through 'fire and rehire' pay cuts and demotions.

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7 July 2021

Road closures: Hackney residents have not been consulted

400 people took part in an anti-road closure demo in Hackney, east London, on 26 June. The protesters we spoke to recognised that something had to be done about the pollution, but felt that the way the

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7 July 2021

Striking Brush workers continue to protest 'fire and rehire'

Brush engineering workers, on strike for six weeks so far against 'fire and rehire', had negotiations with management on 6 July, but they are refusing to budge

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7 July 2021

Derby academies closed by strikes against brutal cuts and changes

Teachers, members of the National Education Union (NEU) at two Derby schools - Lees Brook Academy and Merrill Academy - were out on strike for a full day on 1 July

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16 June 2021

Engineers in fourth week of strike action

Management at Brush Electrical Machines is attacking pay, terms and conditions

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16 June 2021

Socialist Party to the fore at Unison LG conference

At the conference on 13 June, our region had two motions on the agenda, which I moved.

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Cladding safety: Protests demand developers and government pay

9 June 2021

Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis

Cladding safety: Protests took place around the country on 5 June highlighting the cladding crisis

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9 June 2021

If unions give a lead, workers are fully prepared to fight and win victories

A year ago, the trade union leaderships collapsed into national unity with the Tory government and the employers.

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9 June 2021

Douwe Egberts workers strike against pay cuts of up to £12,000 a year

Socialist Party members witnessed an incredible atmosphere of solidarity visiting the Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) factory picket line in Banbury on 5 June

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9 June 2021

London workers prepare to fight Khan's transport cuts

The Tory government and Transport for London (TfL) have reached a new agreement to implement more savage cuts to the jobs, pay, and terms and conditions of TfL workers, in return for a further £1.08 billion bailout

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2 June 2021

Cladding danger: Protest 5 June!

The tragic Grenfell Tower fire is approaching its fourth anniversary

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Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in fight against de-skilling #No2ESO

26 May 2021

Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in the fight against de-skilling #No2ESO. NG Bailey & Balfour Beatty must pull away from their deskilling agenda!

Reading, 26.5.21: Standing with the #Sparks blockading #AWE in the fight against de-skilling #No2ESO. NG Bailey & Balfour Beatty must pull away from their deskilling agenda!

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26 May 2021

Cladding anger builds - protest on 5 June

Three-quarters of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials. Now residents trapped in fire-risk buildings are taking to the streets to protest outside the salerooms of builders

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26 May 2021

Leicester protest against arms supplies to Israel

Not many people in Leicester knew that Israel-based international defence electronics company UAV Tactical Systems had a factory at Meridian Business Park, Leicester, until Palestine Action Leicester (PAL) organised a rooftop protest there

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19 May 2021

Huge victory at Go North West as Unite defeats 'fire and rehire'

As we got to press, bus drivers at Go North West in Manchester have defeated attempts to fire and rehire them, agreeing a deal which will end one of the country's longest-running industrial disputes.

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12 May 2021

Readers' opinion

Social care: Another broken Tory promise: Since 2010, spending on social care has decreased despite demand increasing. Boris Johnson pledged in 2019 that he would finally come up with a solution to the social care crisis, and ensure that people

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12 May 2021

United action needed to defeat fire and rehire

Seventy percent of people are opposed to 'fire and rehire' and want it made illegal. This number will only grow as this brutal weapon of the bosses, imposing worse pay and conditions on workers by sacking

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