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7 April 2021
Councillors have a choice - don't vote for cuts
330 TUSC candidates are standing in the 6 May elections
24 March 2021
Battle for a fighting, anti-austerity mayor
Liverpool has a rich history of councillors being prepared to fight
24 March 2021
Working-class people need a voice in the council chamber. When the Labour Party was formed a hundred years ago, it did that job. It pulled together workers and fighting trade unionists
24 March 2021
Save John Carroll - fight is far from over!
Over 50 people gathered for an online rally on Saturday 20 March for the 'Save John Carroll Leisure Centre' campaign (savejohncarroll.co.uk), showing our defiance to the council
17 March 2021
We need a fighting strategy to win funding from the government - why I'm standing for TUSC
Last March, Doncaster Council's Labour group passed a three-year council budget which included a 'budget gap' of £17.7 million
27 January 2021
Councillors in Surrey resign from Labour and look to stand independently
Two Spelthorne Borough councillors; Veena Siva, Jenny Vinson, and CLP chair Sue Bryer, have resigned from the Labour party ahead of May's local council elections
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.
16 December 2020
TUSC relaunch in the north west
Socialists, community activists and trade unionists were all represented at an online meeting held on 12 December to relaunch the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) in north west England
21 October 2020
Health before profit - Work or full pay
Fear about catching coronavirus, being thrown out of work, being forced to stay at home without enough money ... Yet again it's working-class people who are paying the price.
17 June 2020
Cumbria: Teachers, parents and socialists fight reckless school reopening
Socialist Party members in Cumbria have been active as teachers and parents in the campaign against the reckless attempt to prematurely reopen schools without safety guarantees
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
Is there an anti-cuts rebellion in Scotland?
In Scotland, both Scottish National Party (SNP) and Labour councillors continue to be complicit in implementing cuts, writes Matt Dobson, Socialist Party Scotland.
4 March 2020
Labour councils miss opportunity to stop Tory cuts
In the same week at the end of February, three Labour councils in the south - Brighton, Reading and Southampton - had an opportunity to use Labour's strongholds in southern England to rally opposition to further Tory austerity and set no-cuts budgets to defend jobs and services.
12 February 2020
Cuts councillors are the real problem
The attention-seeking, right-wing Labour leader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes, described by the Guardian as "the leader of Labour's 6,600-strong army of councillors", has attacked Corbyn for being out of touch with Labour voters and disregarding local councillors' experiences.
22 January 2020
Make a stand: set legal no-cuts council budgets
Defend jobs, services and communities. Reports from Carmarthenshire, Peterborough, Swansea, Enfield
22 January 2020
Council cuts continue... So must the fightback
Boris Johnson says austerity is over. So as councils prepare to set budgets next month, everyone - Johnson, the Labour leadership candidates, trade union leaders, councillors of every shade will be asked, "what are you going to do to stop council cuts?"
22 January 2020
To win back working-class trust Labour must take the 'Liverpool road'
The Labour leadership candidates at the first hustings pursued the theme: How can Labour win the trust of the working class?
11 December 2019
Save Our Square campaigners have been battling for years against a 'redevelopment' plan
27 November 2019
End council cuts now, to end Tory austerity!
A decade of attacks on the working class has sharply hit local councils.
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