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1 March 2017
Fight like Poplar's women councillors to change the lives of family carers
Even in the heyday of the welfare state, parents of disabled children received little help, understanding or support. The Tories want to drive us back to the days when family care was the norm
22 February 2017
Tower Hamlets anti-cuts budget lobby
Tower Hamlets council plans to vote through cuts in its budget of £58 million on 22 February. Labour Party mayor John Biggs essentially thinks there's no other option but to implement the Tory government cuts.
28 September 2016
Cable Street: When workers united and fought the fascist threat at Cable Street
This month marks the 80th anniversary of what has gone down in history as the Battle of Cable Street. On 4 October 1936 thousands of workers across the East End of London rose up to prevent a march through their areas by the uniformed thugs of Oswald Mosley's fascists.
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.
5 August 2015
TUSC supporters protested against Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour Party MP for Poplar and Limehouse. Fitzpatrick abstained on the Tories' welfare bill, condemning poor working families and young people to further welfare cuts.
10 September 2014
Guardian story confirms councils can resist cuts
Aditya Chakrabortty's Guardian story on the efforts of Enfield council to respond to the housing crisis shows that councillors can find ways to resist austerity if they choose to.
19 March 2014
The third series of the BBC's Call the Midwife finished recently. The programme is based on the real life memoirs of Jennifer Worth (formerly Lee) who worked as a midwife in London's east end in the 1950s
4 October 2011
Poplar and Liverpool: 'If you fight, you can win'
On the 90th anniversary of the jailing of the Poplar councillors, Queen Mary University Socialist Students society hosted a joint public meeting with the Socialist Party
21 September 2011
Poplar 1921: 'Better to break the law than break the poor'
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the struggle of councillors in Poplar, east London, against government cuts, writes Pete Dickenson.
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