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4 December 2019
Carlisle election meeting: Education - time to make the mega-rich and corporations pay
The Labour candidate for Carlisle, Ruth Alcroft, spoke at a Socialist Party public election meeting in the city on 2 December. It followed the handing over of a petition to her from 500 local parents and teachers against the Tory cuts to school funding.
3 July 2019
Carlisle Labour/Lib Dem coalition cuts care home beds
A hastily organised protest by Carlisle Socialist Party spoilt a self-congratulatory publicity event by the Labour/Lib Dem coalition running Cumbria county council.
6 February 2019
Celebrating Robert Burns 1759-1796
For the 7th year running Carlisle Socialist Party held a very successful Alternative Burns Night
14 February 2018
Carlisle debate - socialism or social democracy?
Only a programme of nationalising the banks and top monopolies would allow a Corbyn-led Labour government to carry through serious improvements for the working class
29 November 2017
Osborne evades Carlisle socialists
At short notice, Carlisle Socialist Party organised a protest on the morning of 24 November to greet the high priest of austerity himself - George Osborne, writes Robert Charlesworth, Carlisle Socialist Party.
15 November 2017
Carlisle socialists campaign against Universal Credit
Universal Credit benefit changes will cause untold misery for thousands in Carlisle when they are fully rolled out in April next year
11 October 2017
Carlisle NHS campaigners hand in petition to MP
Since the early part of the year, members of Carlisle Socialist Party and the Cumbria branch of Unite Community union have been active in the campaign to 'Save our NHS', organising support firstly for the national demonstration in London on 4 March, and subsequently for the two rallies in Carlisle on 8 April and 4 June.
7 June 2017
Carlisle HCT demo warns against cuts and closures
Although shocked by the news of the London terror attack, Cumbria Health Campaigns Together decided to still go ahead with a planned rally for the NHS in Carlisle city centre on Sunday
31 May 2017
Fighting Tory cuts to the schools budget
Education workers, parents and students are uniting in protest
12 April 2017
Carlisle NHS privateers leave patients at risk
What kind of people would build a hospital children's ward with a firewall which stopped just above a false ceiling, allowing smoke and flames to spread? And keep these and other dangers hidden from the staff, patients and even management of the hospital?
5 April 2017
Communities and health workers unite to...resist cruel NHS cuts
The Tories have already cut doctors, nurses, student nurses and 15,000 beds. Now the government intends a further £22 billion of cuts through its 'sustainability and transformation plans' (STPs).
1 February 2017
Cumbria care home beds under threat
Cumbria county council has again published long discredited assertions to justify its attack on our care home system which will get rid of the majority of beds.
11 January 2017
2016: A record-breaking fighting fund year!
Socialist Party members and branches raised a record-breaking £140,535 in 2016. This is £17,000 more than we raised in 2015 (which was itself a record year) and the most we have raised in a year since the early 1990s.
16 November 2016
Cumbria: Stop axing care home places
Carlisle Socialist Party members handed in a 1,500-signature petition on 9 November demanding that Cumbria County Council scrap its plan to halve the number of care home places.
12 October 2016
Fight to save care homes in Carlisle
Cumbria County Council is planning to close three care homes and replace them with another building which only has 60 beds instead of the current 117. Another four homes will be closed in West Cumbria. Only those suffering from dementia and the most complex needs will get a place. But what about respite care? What about family carers?
11 May 2016
Support for junior doctors at campaign stalls
Public shows huge support for BMA strike at Socialist Party stalls in Carlisle and Leicester.
16 March 2016
Big boosts at Northern Socialist Party conference
The Socialist Party northern regional conference acted as a political springboard, giving us a big boost for the tasks ahead, writes Elaine Brunskill, Northern Socialist Party secretary.
24 February 2016
Cumbria cuts - the grim reaper
The recent decision by Labour Cumbria county councillors to carry out £25 million cuts to vital public services, particularly social care, will result in more unnecessary deaths in Cumbria.
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