UK Towns and cities keywords:
Filter by importance | All results
13 April 2016
Women have borne the brunt of the cuts inflicted by the Con-Dems and the current government. Of the people living in poverty in this country, 40% are women and 23% are children.
23 March 2016
Letters to the Socialist's editors. Rape, women and victim blaming; McDonnell boosts Blairite mayor; healthcare insurance headache; errors of the pro-EU left; global economy gripes.
1 April 2015
Gloucester College hustings: Scrap all fees
Sue Powell, TUSC parliamentary candidate for Gloucester, spoke at a Gloucester College hustings on 19 March in front of 50 students
14 May 2014
Building TUSC, building socialism
Socialists and trade unionists are competing in 62 council seats in the south west under the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) banner
28 May 2013
Large turnout at regional Socialist Party conference
Members and supporters from 19 towns and cities heard Socialist Party deputy secretary Hannah Sell speak on the volatile situation unfolding in Britain and Europe
1 February 2012
As previously reported in the Socialist, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is planning to close all 39 of its local offices and centralise operations at its Swansea headquarters.
31 January 2012
Unilever strikers condemn bosses' greed
To the sound of hoots of support from passing traffic, the delivery lorries supplying Walls Ice Cream in Gloucester were backing up, as drivers refused to cross the picket line
23 November 2010
1,000 march in Gloucester against 'scorched earth policy'
'HOW WOULD you like your cuts?,' the 'consultations' by Gloucestershire County Council's (GCC) Road Show asked, mainly when working people could not attend, writes Gloucestershire Socialist Party.
Matt Wrack with firefighters at their rally and lobby MPs against cuts, photo Suzanne Beishon
23 November 2010
On 17 November FBU members from Gloucestershire joined the 2,000 firefighters who poured out of their rally at Westminster and blocked the road outside Parliament, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Socialist Party.
22 November 2010
1,000 march in Gloucester against 'scorched earth policy'
'How would you like your cuts?' was the theme of Road Show consultations held by Gloucestershire County Council (GCC), mainly when working people could not attend...
27 January 2010
University of Gloucestershire staff fight back
The University of Gloucestershire (UoG) is £36 million in debt and plans £3 million of cuts by July 2010, writes Chris Moore.
28 October 2009
Postal strike reports: Defending the service
Cars hooted their support as postal workers' picket lines were solid across Gloucestershire this week, even more so than during the 2007 strike, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire Socialist Party.
25 March 2009
Comment: Twenty year old Ashley Jenkins has recently joined the Socialist Party. Here he explains his experiences as a tenant in Gloucester...
15 October 2008
Sack the bankers not the workers
The proposed takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB will result in anything from 20,000 to 40,000 jobs being cut, writes a Cheltenham and Gloucester bank worker.
2 October 2008
Cuts and privatisation threaten new floods
TWO YEARS after they were first flooded, Gloucester residents Martin Ison and Tina Spiers are still cramped into the upstairs of their house while below reeks of damp and looks like a building site, writes Chris Moore, Gloucestershire.
7 May 2008
Election victories for class fighters
The Socialist would welcome reports from readers of any other anti-cuts election successes, writes Chris Moore and Derek McMillan.
30 April 2008
"Why I am standing against Labour"
PHIL JORDAN, South West Regional chair of the FBU (Fire Brigades Union) and Gloucester trades council president, is standing in Tuffley for the Gloucester city elections on 1 May as an independent...
23 April 2008
Gloucester says... 'save our post offices'
ON 19 April a Save Our Post Offices (SOPO) rally in Gloucester's shopping centre attracted 50 local campaigners...
2 April 2008
"Halve your expenses and save our post offices"
SAVE OUR Post Offices (SOPO) campaigners have scored a first-stage victory by forcing Gloucestershire county council (GCC) to consider an 'Essex type' rescue plan for the 27 post offices facing closure in the county, writes Chris Moore, Save Our Post Offices campaign.
14 November 2007
Royal Mail's deal: Not good enough - Vote NO!
 |
Postal workers on strike in 2007 |
Search entire database:
LATEST POSTS
22 May Liverpool Socialist Party: Political perspectives for Britain
23 May Caerphilly & RCT Socialist Party: Stop Israeli state terror
23 May London Socialist Party: France's 1968 'month of revolution'
23 May Brighton: Socialist Party PCS conference fringe meeting
CONTACT US
Phone our national office on 020 8988 8777
Email: info@socialistparty.org.uk
Locate your nearest Socialist Party branch Text your name and postcode to 07761 818 206
Regional Socialist Party organisers:
Eastern: 0798 202 1969
East Mids: 0773 797 8057
London: 020 8988 8786
North East: 0784 114 4890
North West 07769 611 320
South East: 020 8988 8777
South West: 07759 796 478
Southern: 07833 681910
Wales: 07935 391 947
West Mids: 02476 555 620
Yorkshire: 0114 264 6551
ABOUT US
ARCHIVE
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999