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1 May 2019
Union action needed to fight Tory Derbyshire Council cuts
Derbyshire's local government unions must respond with boldness and determination in the face of the Tory-controlled county council's latest round of austerity.
3 April 2019
Chesterfield hospital privatisation plans
Chesterfield Royal Hospital is going ahead with plans to introduce a wholly owned subsidiary company - Derbyshire Support and Facilitates Services.
16 May 2018
Chesterfield May Day: march turnout great
Glorious bank holiday weather brought a high turnout to the 40th Chesterfield May Day march and rally, where Unite's Len McCluskey and the National Education Union's Kevin Courtney delivered strong messages that the labour movement must fight back against austerity and a weak Tory government
7 March 2018
Derbyshire says: No fracking way!
"No fracking way" was the chant by the hundreds of people from groups all over Derbyshire and Yorkshire at the end of a three-mile march between Clowne and Bolsover on 24 February
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.
14 September 2016
Letters to the Socialist's editors. Marathon for the fighting fund; Sarah Picton obituary.
31 August 2016
Sunshine and socialism at Socialist Party summer camp
Dozens of socialists in a field with sunshine, debate and refreshments. Unusual maybe, but our summer camp, held on August bank holiday weekend, is a longstanding highlight of the Socialist Party calendar.
11 May 2016
May Day demo says: no cuts to childrens' centres!
"No ifs, no buts, no children's centre cuts" was the rallying cry at the largest Chesterfield May Day demonstration for many years on 2 May.
21 October 2015
Sports Direct action over sacking
As a Sports Direct employee you not only slave in workhouse conditions, you can also be illegally sacked with 15 minutes notice.
23 September 2015
Liverpool's Labour mayor took pay for job he no longer did
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson continued to receive thousands from a local school - for two years longer than he worked there.
15 July 2015
Road accident highlights need to save school crossings
On the same day as Save Derbyshire School Crossing Campaigners put questions about cuts to a meeting at Derbyshire County Council, a Lollypop Lady at their local school in Chesterfield was hit by a car.
10 June 2015
Protesters tell Labour councils to fight Tory cuts
Chesterfield: Disability, school crossing and other anti-cuts campaigners marched alongside people from Rethink Mental Illness and Our Vision Our Future self-advocacy groups to fight Tory cuts that are passed on by the local Labour council, writes Elaine Evans.
2 April 2015
School crossing campaigner stands for TUSC
Scrapping of school crossing patrols is planned as part of a monumental £157 million of cuts
18 March 2015
NHS bullying: Worcestershire campaign Betrayed By Their Trust (BBTT) aims to make NHS managers accountable for abusive behaviour which is wrecking the lives and careers of workers
Former striking miners retrace their steps, 30 years to the day since they marched back to Shireoaks colliery, near Worksop. Former Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Notts miners and supporters marked the anniversary., photo J Dale
11 March 2015
"It wasn't easy, but I wanted to beat Thatcher"
30 years since the end of the miners' strike: Neal Davis, member of Mansfield Socialist Party, spoke to former Shirebrook (north Derbyshire) miner Ronnie Rodgers
Young workers and trade unionists marching for jobs, photo Paul Mattsson
8 October 2014
Training tomorrow's trade union militants
The East Midlands region ran a successful event to help train newer Socialist Party unionists how to work effectively in their union
2 July 2014
Obituary: Ian Whyles - miner, socialist and class fighter
Ian Whyles, a member of the Socialist Party and its predecessor Militant for 34 years, has died aged 78, writes Jon Dale.
26 June 2013
Chesterfield college: Lecturers at Chesterfield College have taken two more days of strike action against 70 compulsory redundancies
10 June 2013
College lecturers strike against redundancies
Chesterfield College lecturers were supported by students in a one-day strike against compulsory redundancies
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