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Fords: Our jobs - here to stay
31 October 2012
Solidarity with Ford workers - Defend every job
News of Ford's plans to close the Transit plant in Southampton has hit workers and the city like a bombshell, writes Nick Chaffey, Socialist Party southern region secretary.
25 October 2012
Urgent action needed to defend Ford plants
The Socialist Party sends its full support to Ford workers after Ford announced it intends to close two British plants
Coxteth councillors Keith and Don campaigning with others to save Oaklands pool, Southampton, photo Southampton SP
11 October 2012
Southampton anti-cuts councillors form new council group
Coxford ward Labour councillors Keith Morrell and Don Thomas were suspended from their council Labour group for opposing the closure of a swimming pool
3 October 2012
Councillors must resist all Tory cuts
Southampton: Nick Chaffey, Southampton Socialist Party, wrote the following letter to the Independent in reply to an article by Owen Jones...
14 September 2012
Save Oaklands Pool - "This is what we pay our council tax for!"
Trade unionists, Oaklands Pool campaigners and Socialist Party members gathered to oppose cuts being made by Southampton Labour council
5 September 2012
Southampton council pay dispute
Important lessons for the battles ahead: Southampton council workers, in dispute for over 18 months, are close to ending their fight against the previous Tory council's pay cuts
Coxteth councillors Keith and Don campaigning with others to save Oaklands pool, Southampton, photo Southampton SP
5 September 2012
Southampton: Save Oaklands Pool
Almost everyone comments on the irony that the government bathes in the glow of the Games while carrying out cuts to the very facilities athletes use and need
22 August 2012
Banners and flags were caught in the early Saturday morning breeze at Portsmouth Ferry Port on 18 August. The chant was "low pay, no way" in the second protest outside the port, writes Nick Pollard.
22 August 2012
Southampton rebels continue fight against council cuts
Over 250 members of the local community packed into the Save Oaklands Pool public meeting and vented their fury at Labour councillor Warwick Payne who was invited to answer questions, writes Nick Chaffey, Southampton Socialist Party.
13 August 2012
Southampton residents voice fury at pool closure plan
After witnessing all the euphoria on TV about the Olympic Games, on Friday 10 August I attended a public meeting at Lordshill in Southampton, writes Dave Boyes.
8 August 2012
Interview with Southampton rebel councillors
'We weren't elected to make cuts': Two Southampton Labour Party councillors, Keith Morrell and Don Thomas, have been investigated by the party whips
31 July 2012
Save Oaklands pool, Southampton
The stand taken by two Coxford councillors, to vote against the Labour council's budget cuts and its proposal to close Oaklands pool has received enormous support across the city
23 July 2012
RMT demo in Portsmouth against Condor's 'sweatships'
To the sounds of the Pompey chimes, over 40 trade unionists and socialists protested against exploitation of seafarers by Condor Ferries
18 July 2012
Miliband and Labour - no real alternative to Con-Dems
Ed Miliband became the first Labour leader since Neil Kinnock in 1989 to speak at the Durham Miners' Gala... Does this represent a break with the past? Has Ed become red?
18 July 2012
Fighting against exploitation of seafarers and port workers
The RMT in Portsmouth and Southampton is campaigning against the exploitation of foreign seafarers by Condor Ferries, and Unite is balloting for action against council cuts to the contracts of quay assistants
13 July 2012
Southampton: two Labour councillors vote against Labour council cuts
In the 3 May elections, the Tory council in Southampton suffered a heavy defeat. This followed months of strikes and mass demonstrations by council workers with the backing of the local community.
13 June 2012
Southampton University saw 30-plus people cram into the Nuffield Theatre on Thursday 7 June. Students, trade unionists and unemployed people came to hear speeches from Nick Sakellaropoulos
9 May 2012
In the Unison newsletter produced in Southampton for the local elections the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and Unison members standing as candidates for TUSC were criticised...
25 April 2012
Labour - no friend of trade unions
Nick Chaffey, Southampton TUSC candidate, Bitterne Park, replies to a letter from Unite regional official Ian Woodland, published in the Morning Star...
18 April 2012
No to cuts: make the bosses pay!
"I wish I was old enough to vote," a woman said to me, "you'd get my vote. With all these cuts I just don't know how I'm going to survive.", writes Graham O'Reilly, Southampton.
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