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11 July 2018
Big victory for Wigan NHS strike against privatisation
In an outstanding example of how privatisation in the NHS is not inevitable, striking workers in Wigan have forced their NHS trust to drop all plans for outsourcing cleaning, catering and domestic services.
30 May 2018
900-strong north west NHS strike
A historic strike has taken place at three hospitals in the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust.
2 May 2018
Salford nursery campaigners take fight to parliament
The 'fight for the five' campaign, which is trying to save the remaining local authority nurseries in Salford, took their battle to parliament on 25 April.
2 May 2018
100k more zero-hour contracts in just a year
Strike to win secure work!: The number of zero-hour contracts in Britain rose by 100,000 in just a year
28 March 2018
North West Socialist Party conference
47 members from across the North West came to the region's Socialist Party conference on 24 March, writes Hugh Caffrey, North West Socialist Party secretary.
28 March 2018
Liverpool Uni staff set to fight 220 job losses
The University of Liverpool has announced 220 redundancies. Vice-Chancellor Janet Beer is also head of Universities UK, the body trying to carry out colossal cuts to university workers' pensions, writes Hugh Caffrey, North West Socialist Party.
28 March 2018
"Theresa May, strong and stable, stole the food from the children's table!" chanted 60 or so protesters at the first protest in Liverpool against free school meals being scrapped, writes Hugh Caffrey Socialist Party North West, secretary.
14 March 2018
Zero new homes 'affordable' in Blairite Manchester
A damning, yet unsurprising, February housing report reveals that zero affordable housing has been built in Manchester city centre in two years.
14 March 2018
Campaigners continue to demand Chorley A&E is fully reopened
There was a great turnout on Saturday 10 March when over 200 people rallied in support of the community based campaign to demand the full re-opening of Chorley and South Ribble A&E department.
16 December 2017
Arriva bus drivers' action wins pay rise
Arriva backed down and offered a two-year deal, accepted by Unite members this week
10 November 2017
Huge support for strikes of bus drivers and train guards
Public transport across Merseyside was nearly shut down
31 October 2017
Arriva bus workers' dispute continues
The bus drivers' strike at Arriva remained completely solid on the third day of action
19 October 2017
Arriva North West bus drivers strike over pay
Bus drivers across 11 depots took a day of strike action, with two more planned
18 October 2017
Nationalise to save jobs at BAE Systems
Arms manufacturer BAE Systems has announced that up to 2,000 jobs will be cut in locations across the UK. These job cuts will have a devastating effect on the lives of workers losing their livelihood but will also have a wider impact on the local economy.
4 October 2017
£11,000 raised in three weeks for fighting fund
Socialist Party members made a herculean effort to reach the target for the summer July to September quarter, raising over £11,000 in the final three weeks of the campaign
26 July 2017
Socialist sales at Salford station
Over the last year we've done a weekly sale at teatime for commuters who work in Manchester city centre and use Salford train station to get home
4 July 2017
Support the Merseyrail strikes against DOO
The Labour-run 'Liverpool city region transport committee' still intends to take guards off the trains and introduce 'driver-only operation'. We support the RMT, taking 24-hour strike action against this on 8, 10 and 23 of July.
5 April 2017
May Day greetings final push: We're really pleased we achieved our regional target this year for May Day greetings from trade union bodies, student groups and local campaigns. If you haven't yet, you still can!
8 March 2017
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) workers took another day of strike action on 1 March after the disgraceful sacking of ten of their colleagues by email last month. The PCS and Unite unions are now demanding the reinstatement of these workers.
8 February 2017
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