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6 January 2022
TUSC appeals for widest possible anti-austerity socialist unity for May elections
Fighting trade unionists, socialists, and working-class community campaigners can offer an anti-austerity alternative at the ballot box
1 December 2021
Building a political alternative to Tory and Labour cuts
Newham resists cuts: Newham Resists has agreed to campaign for a no-cuts, needs budget to show there is an alternative to the Labour council passing on Tory austerity. Newham Resists is a new coalition.
17 November 2021
An appeal to trade union members to stand as anti-cuts candidates
Working-class people need our own political voice, as part of our toolbox to help us stand up to attacks from the Tories and bosses
10 November 2021
Tories under fire over sleaze and rising prices: A public sector strike on pay is brewing. And is it any wonder?
27 October 2021
Public sector pay thaw - union fight is on for a real rise and funding
For teachers, the government's announcement that in April 2022 they will lift the public sector pay freeze imposed in November 2020 simply represents too little too late
20 October 2021
People's Budgets - a socialist answer to cruel cuts
The Tories are planning £2bn more austerity cuts in the autumn budget.
20 October 2021
Ealing People's Budget - cuts can be resisted
For every £1 received from central government in 2010, Ealing, in west London, now gets 36p. There is no let-up in the Labour council's relentless cuts to jobs, services and facilities.
13 October 2021
Fight for the pay rise we deserve
Saviour Boris is at it again! At the Tory party conference, he criticised bosses for shortages due to failure to invest in people and pay. A sentiment that, if it stood alone, we could agree with. But
17 August 2021
Reject the Ministry of Justice pay offer
The Ministry of Justice has tabled a pay offer which trades conditions for pay. This is their second attempt after the failed MEP proposals 3 years ago were roundly and soundly rejected by members.
23 June 2021
Interview with newly elected Unison NEC member
Hospital worker Naomi Byron speaks (pc) to the Socialist following her election
5 May 2021
Vote 'yes' in the PCS DWP ballot
PCS ballot closes 13 May - vote Broad Left Network: Broad Left Network members are building for a strong 'yes' vote in the DWP consultative ballot for PCS Jobcentre members which starts on 5 May and runs until 21 May.
21 April 2021
PCS leadership ballot underway
The ballot for PCS president and national executive committee opens on 22 April and runs to 13 May. PCS is the union for government workers in the civil service and public and private sectors.
31 March 2021
London - We need socialists into City Hall
The government is hellbent on making working-class people pay the bill for Covid
31 March 2021
Donate now to fuel our election campaigns
Across England and Wales, Socialist Party members are already busy campaigning and getting the anti-austerity socialist message out to as wide an audience as possible through the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition election campaigns
24 March 2021
Lessons of the 2011 pensions strike: when workers showed their power
In 2011, trade unionists demonstrated in their hundreds of thousands and then took strike action in defence of their pensions and against public service cuts
24 March 2021
Battle for a fighting, anti-austerity mayor
Liverpool has a rich history of councillors being prepared to fight
24 March 2021
Help fund the Socialist Party's stand as part of TUSC
Socialist Party members are already out campaigning for Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) candidates ahead of May's elections
10 March 2021
Tories keep bailing out bosses, while piling pain on workers and public services
Reading the headlines about Tory Chancellor Rishi Sunak's budget, some working-class people may have let out a small sigh of relief that at least the furlough scheme and the £20 increase in Universal Credit are continuing for a few more months
3 March 2021
HMRC: Pay deal agreed but at what cost?
On 26 February the PCS union HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) pay ballot closed. The turnout was 82.4% with 79.6% for and 20.4% against the deal.
3 March 2021
Public sector workers respond to the budget
"The financial outlook is volatile." This (under)statement, in Essex County Council's budget document for 2021, could be the strapline for the future of all local government services.
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