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6 January 2021
Nottingham City Council: Major battles against cuts ahead
Nottingham's Labour Council faces a decisive choice: whether it defends services, jobs and terms and conditions, or implements major cuts.
2 December 2020
Unions must resist return to austerity
Chancellor Sunak's spending review should be a wake-up call to the trade union leaders. Even from the capitalists' point of view there was no immediate need to impose a pay freeze on 1.5 million public sector workers.
1 July 2020
Leeds City Council in danger of bankruptcy
The Covid-19 crisis has pushed councils up and down the country into a new financial crisis.
24 June 2020
International aid: Johnson's pie in the sky
Boris Johnson has announced the merging of the Department for International Development into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
24 March 2020
Newham campaign set up against council cuts and tax hikes
Back in the mists of time, on 6 March, in the days before Coronavirus was dominating everything, local residents in Newham came together to organise opposition to the budget that had just been agreed by the Labour council
14 March 2020
Capitalist crisis and Corona: Johnson's budget for the bosses
The measures announced by the Tories, in the budget and subsequently, are utterly insufficient to limit the spread of Covid-19.
11 March 2020
Swansea: Ask anyone about state of services, you will hear the real story
Ask any Swansea resident about the state of social care, education and refuse collection and they will tell you the real story, writes Gareth Bromhall, acting secretary of Swansea Trade Union Council.
11 March 2020
Camarthenshire: Councillors' 'walk of shame'
Plaid Cymru councillors voting for the cuts had to walk the 'walk of shame' past us to get into the council meeting, writes Mark Evans, Carmarthenshire County Unison branch secretary (personal capacity).
11 March 2020
Salford 'no-cuts' budget includes cuts and tax rises
Salford council has cut £211 million from spending since 2010, writes Nick Chaffey, Socialist Party national committee.
26 February 2020
150-200 angry council workers met outside Stoke Town Hall on 19 February to protest against cuts that will leave some workers £5,000 a year worse off.
26 February 2020
Leicester: We can't take any more cuts, any more misery, and we are fighting back
In one of the poorest cities in the country, the cuts will disproportionately affect those on low incomes, particularly women and the disabled - as stated in the council's own budget report!
26 February 2020
Students and workers out together on Budget Day, 11 March
Socialist Students is backing protests against the Tory budget on 11 March
31 January 2020
Socialist Party calls anti-austerity protest on Budget Day
Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary said: "We are calling this protest to say austerity must end".
22 January 2020
Make a stand: set legal no-cuts council budgets
Defend jobs, services and communities. Reports from Carmarthenshire, Peterborough, Swansea, Enfield
20 November 2019
Carmarthenshire union demands no-cuts budget
With both Labour and the Tories promising more spending, there is no excuse for any council to make more cuts
17 July 2019
Council seeks to take budget deficit out on school staff and pupils
"You can't keep cutting jobs and simply expect teachers and support staff to pick up the extra work. We are not prepared to see our members driven into the ground nor see the children's education suffer", said Venda Premkumar, Redbridge National Education Union (NEU) branch secretary.
1 May 2019
Leicester: No-cuts budget only way forward
With just five days until polling day, Leicester Socialist Party hosted a public meeting to spell out our plan to fight all austerity cuts if elected to the city council.
27 March 2019
Valentine school strike against budget cuts and redundancies
"No ifs, no buts, stop school cuts!" was the sound at Valentine Primary School gates on 14 March, striking at the threat of redundancies due to budget cuts
27 February 2019
Leicester: cuts passed in record time - use the £100m reserves!
Leicester Socialist Party is contesting May's elections on a platform of using the reserves to set a legal no-cuts budget
20 February 2019
Leeds TUC presents a no-cuts alternative budget
The anti-austerity committee of Leeds Trade Union Council (TUC) - which brings together the city's unions - presented its alternative city budget at a special public meeting on 12 February.
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