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17 April 2019
During the campaign against the Poll Tax, we used to say that the tax was unfair because a lord in his manor was expected to pay the same as a dustman down the road.
17 April 2019
Real life on Universal Credit: "As soon as I get billed for my electric, I'm finished"
Hi. I'm Luke. I live alone and I'm on Universal Credit.
6 February 2019
Socialist Party no-cuts stand finds support
It has been a busy week campaigning in Coxford ward in Southampton.
28 November 2018
Haringey 'Corbyn council': end the secrecy and confusion - lead a fight against the cuts
Haringey Labour Party members have been shocked and outraged by the announcement that their north London council is considering cuts of a further 10% in its budget
14 November 2018
Haringey's 'Corbyn council' must refuse to make cuts!
Haringey council has written to all Labour members that it will "have to" make 10% budget cuts - on top of 40% already inflicted
31 January 2018
Bristol anti-cuts campaigners debate alternatives to the cuts
Bristol and District Anti-Cuts Alliance (Badaca) hosted a public debate at Unite the Union's Bristol office on 24 January.
3 January 2018
Thousands live in tents and sheds - seize empty homes
Over 60,000 homes in England and Wales have been vacant for more than two years. At the same time, 9,100 people live in tents. And in London alone around 9,000 'beds in sheds' fill secret slums.
6 September 2017
Bristol's Labour mayor calls anti-austerity march - now stop making cuts!
The Labour mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, has called an 'anti-austerity march & rally' in conjunction with Bristol People's Assembly and Bristol Labour Party on Saturday 9 September
26 July 2017
Plans to bring A-levels back to Knowsley abandoned
Education chiefs have abandoned plans to bring back A-level provision into the borough of Knowsley, Liverpool
5 April 2017
Fight Tories' callous cuts pushing 200,000 more kids into poverty
A raft of callous Tory measures starting on 6 April will push another 200,000 kids below the breadline, according to the Child Poverty Action Group.
8 March 2017
Sheffielders call for a no-cuts 'people's budget'
Around 40 local trade unionists and community campaigners discussed proposals for a no-cuts 'people's budget' ahead of Sheffield council's budget-setting meeting.
1 March 2017
There is an alternative, Mr Biggs
Just before Women's Day, Tower Hamlets council voted for cuts in children's and youth services
15 February 2017
Council cuts can be fought - and they must be!
During February many council budget-setting meetings are taking place across the country, slashing millions more pounds off vital services.
25 January 2017
Reject Surrey's 15% council tax increase
Surrey's Tory council wants residents to fork out a whopping 15% council tax rise to pay for the crisis in social care
14 December 2016
Letters to the Socialist's editors. Scrooge bosses; local lotteries; liberal confusion.
7 September 2016
London bailiff use soars by half
Bailiffs collected council tax debts from 19,212 London homes in 2015-16. This is 51% up on the year before, according to the Child Poverty Action Group and Z2K charities.
24 February 2016
Tower Hamlets to take anti-cuts fight into the council chamber
Tower Hamlets Independent Group councillors will move an amendment to the east London borough's cuts budget on 24 February.
13 January 2016
The only way councillors can stop the huge Tory cuts is to mobilise a mass campaign of the council workforce, local residents and anti-cuts campaigners.
18 November 2015
The end of social housing? How can we solve the housing crisis?
The cat is out of the bag. As the Financial Times reported: "Chancellor George Osborne is considering a radical multibillion-pound plan to privatise the government's stake in housing associations".
21 October 2015
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us. Housing crisis versus landlords' profits, extortionate cost of football.
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