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20 February 2020
'Roses are red, violets are blue, BP and Shell - we're coming for you'
Climate strikers' Valentine's Day message
22 January 2020
"If you think bus and rail services are crap, sign our petition to take them back"
Sheffield Socialist Party branch decided to start a campaign about public transport
5 June 2019
South Yorkshire: No to fire service cuts!
South Yorkshire Fire Brigade Union (FBU) members will be lobbying Sheffield City Council meeting outside the Town Hall at 12.30pm on Wednesday 12 June.
10 April 2019
South Yorkshire Freedom Riders - still battling on
South Yorkshire Freedom Riders held rallies on 1 April marking five years of our struggle for the full restoration of travel pass rights
28 March 2019
Well-supported strike against cuts at Bradfield school
Teachers at Bradfield school in Sheffield are defending jobs and education
6 February 2019
Sheffield tree campaigners' legal win
The Independent Office for Police Conduct has ruled that seven Sheffield Trees Action Group campaigners were wrongly arrested in 2016 and 2017.
30 January 2019
Keep profiteering developers out!
Walthamstow: Hands off our public amenities: 'We aren't going away'. That was the mood of the public meeting of around 60 people organised by the Save Our Square campaign on 26 January.
28 November 2018
Nat West's benefit-claimant eviction policy
Nat West bank made an ultimatum to a Belfast landlord seeking to remortgage their buy-to-let flat - either evict your vulnerable older tenant or seek a mortgage elsewhere.
26 September 2018
Victory for Sheffield Save Our NHS
On 20 September, Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) agreed to keep the minor injuries unit, walk-in centre and eye centre in their present form for at least another two years. This was welcomed as a victory
22 August 2018
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including Sheffield Supertram workers win and Woolwich ferry workers strike.
25 July 2018
Sheffield tram workers strike for 72 hours
Sheffield Supertram drivers and conductors, members of Unite the Union, took 72 hours' further strike action in pursuit of their pay claim on 20-22 July.
9 July 2018
Tram workers strike against 'derisory' pay offer
"Liberating" is how one Unite member described his first day on strike
27 June 2018
Blairite cuts and restructures make social work dangerous
In Sheffield 'money-saving changes' the Blairite council is making are like a wrecking ball destroying a building when none of the occupants have been evacuated
20 June 2018
Orgreave - no justice, no peace
On the outskirts of Sheffield on Saturday 16 June, around 300 people assembled under the banners of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign (OTJC); insisting that the government hold a full public inquiry into the events at Orgreave 34 years ago
13 June 2018
Sheffield Labour council "happy" to jail trees protesters
Since the new year there have been over 20 arrests of campaigners fighting privatisation-driven tree felling, for more and more farcical reasons
23 May 2018
Sheffield Pride organisers defeated in attempt to ban politics
Organisers of Sheffield Pride have sparked criticism of the event after calling Pride a "celebration, not a protest."
25 April 2018
Sheffield and South Yorkshire: no to closures - defend our NHS
In the eight years of Tory-led governments, 95 NHS walk-in centres have been closed - 40% of the original number
11 April 2018
Save our NHS candidate contesting South Yorkshire mayor election
Pointless. The election of a South Yorkshire metro mayor in May, at the cost of £1 million, is set to be one of the most pointless polls ever
29 March 2018
Sheffield tree fellings paused as bully Labour council feels pressure
Axe PFI, not trees: On the BBC a journalist suggested the Labour council had finally caved in to pressure and was willing to open meaningful negotiations
7 March 2018
Years of fees, cuts and marketisation have created an army of low-paid and casualised workers
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