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11 September 2019
Unions must fight to make bus drivers and passengers safe
A major report has at last been published, following concerns over driver fatigue on London's buses. High levels of deaths and injuries involving buses have been recorded.
3 July 2019
Even social-care bosses say cuts have gone too far
Jeremy Hunt, in a masterful understatement, said: "I think, having been responsible for health and social care, that some of the cuts in social care did go too far."
15 May 2019
Birmingham home care strikers close to victory!
Just as we go to press, Birmingham Socialist Party members have learnt that the city's home care workers could be on the verge of claiming victory in their 20-month-long dispute against Birmingham Council.
3 April 2019
PCS elections: Support socialist candidates
National elections in the PCS civil servants' union start on 16 April and finish 9 May. They are for the national executive committee (NEC), which is elected annually, and the assistant general secretary (AGS) position - elected for a five-year term
3 April 2019
Probation privatisation failure
"Irredeemably flawed" is the verdict of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Probation, five years on from the break-up and part-privatisation of the service.
13 March 2019
Anger after violent youth deaths - Communities need public services not cuts
So far this year, ten teenagers have already lost their lives in London as a result of knife crime. In response to these tragedies, people are rightly demanding action to keep communities safe.
12 December 2018
Cuts and NHS crisis result in 'excess' elderly deaths
The latest figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal that there were 50,100 'excess deaths' in England and Wales in the winter of 2017-18, the highest number since the mid-1970s.
12 December 2018
Shares in Interserve - one of the UK's largest private providers of public services - have collapsed after it announced it has £500 million worth of debts.
28 November 2018
End "poverty, ill health and despair":a benefits adviser speaks out against the cuts
I have worked, since leaving college - 22 years - solely in benefits. I have witnessed the systematic destruction of a support system meant to help those who need it most, creating a widespread situation
7 November 2018
Back Chris Baugh and Marion Lloyd for a fighting, democratic, lay-led union
This month votes take place to decide the PCS Left Unity candidates for the union's 2019 elections.
7 November 2018
Tories out - we need socialism!
We need socialism. That will be the central case presented on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th November at Socialism 2018 - a weekend of discussion and debate hosted by the Socialist Party.
31 October 2018
Call to arms by Southampton council unions
Unite and Unison unions representing Southampton City Council staff have declared that they will oppose and campaign against budget cuts announced by the Labour administration.
24 October 2018
Health services in meltdown - fight to save our NHS
In the last two years, infant mortality rates in England and Wales have risen for the first time in over a century.
12 September 2018
10 years since the financial crash - the socialist answer to capitalist crisis
On 15 September at a secret London venue top bankers who were part of Lehman Brothers will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their bank's 2008 collapse with "cocktails and canapes".
20 August 2018
The dispute within the left of Britain's largest civil service union raises key issues for the whole labour movement. Above all, the need for democratic, lay-member control of fighting trade unions.
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.
18 July 2018
'Vote Leave' fined: For a workers' Brexit
The electoral commission has fined the right-wing, pro-big business 'Vote Leave' campaign £61,000 for breaking the law.
4 July 2018
Social care funding crisis: no to an age levy - make the super-rich pay
We all know how desperately needed a funding solution is for social care and the NHS. But it can't be found through ordinary people chipping in even more to pay for it
6 June 2018
PCS union launches strike ballot on pay
Workers in the PCS union, representing civil servants across all government departments, have voted overwhelmingly to ballot members for strike action.
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