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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.
24 February 2021
HMRC: Divisive pay deal leads to expulsions
PCS members in the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are voting on a pay deal. The deal is for a 13% pay increase over three years, but if agreed would put all staff onto a new contract
17 February 2021
Doing all we can to fund the anti-cuts stand at the ballot box
Socialist Party members and supporters are doing a brilliant job raising fighting fund this quarter. This has been particularly buoyed by the donations we have received to help fund the Socialist Party's
3 February 2021
HMRC: We demand a pay rise without cuts to terms and conditions
On 1 February, a multi-year pay offer was made to union members in HMRC.
3 February 2021
Save our square: we need social housing and public services
Waltham Forest Labour council in East London approved plans to build a block of unaffordable, private housing on Walthamstow town square
20 January 2021
May elections: Tories and Labour's Khan both vying to slash public services
Transport investment has been on the basis of vanity projects and expensive outsourcing
9 December 2020
HMRC pay talks - PCS needs to organise members now
Revenue and Customs (HMRC) management's business case for pay linked to contract changes has been agreed by the Treasury
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.
2 December 2020
"Devolution is a disaster" were the reported words of Boris Johnson, referring to the Scottish government and "Tony Blair's biggest mistake".
2 December 2020
Napo kickstarts fight against pay freeze
At my first meeting on the national executive committee (NEC) of probation union Napo, I put forward an emergency motion to launch a campaign against the pay freeze.
25 November 2020
Covid crisis: "We won't pay the price"
After giving Covid contracts worth billions to their cronies, the Tories announced yet another pay freeze for millions of public sector workers, and the scrapping of the planned increase in the minimum wage
Hugo Pierre, speaking at Socialism 2020, 21st November 2020
22 November 2020
4 November 2020
Why the Socialist Party is backing Hugo Pierre for Unison general secretary
On the 28 October, 1.4 million ballot papers will go out to Unison public sector union members to decide who should be the new general secretary and lead the union.
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