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14 October 2020
Locked down, hard up - Fight back!
* Work or full pay
* Health before profit
As areas across the country face further lockdown measures there is growing frustration, anger and anxiety.
29 April 2020
Adding demands to the weekly claps
Lots out clapping, taxis tooting their horns, bagpipes playing and a bit of chanting - "PPE for all frontline workers", "mass testing for all" and "save our NHS", writes Elaine Brunskill.
10 April 2019
Gateshead FC crisis: save our Heed!
Socialist Party members have suggested Gateshead Soul organise a protest in the town centre and have also raised the possibility of fans' ownership of the club
6 June 2017
Huge crowd turns out to hear Jeremy Corbyn
Tyneside turned out en masse to hear Jeremy Corbyn speak in Gateshead
12 April 2017
Solid strike across the rail network against unsafe driver-only operation
Train strikes brought large parts of the country to a standstill on 8 April. Train guards in the RMT union struck against driver-only operation (DOO) on Merseyrail which affected the Grand National horse race, on Northern Rail and again on Southern Rail, days before the franchise's boss doubled his pay.
5 April 2017
Letters to the Socialist's editors including Unite elections, NHS, Star Trek, and Welsh trains.
8 March 2017
Struggling to care against a backcloth of cuts
The following is an account of years of struggle by parents of a disabled child to secure the proper resources to meet their daughter's needs. A situation made more difficult by draconian cuts in funding local services.
14 September 2016
Socialist Party members join disability rights week of action
Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) called a week of action, 4-10 of September to coincide with the beginning of the Paralympic Games.
18 May 2016
Newcastle: countering the fascist menace
On 14 May far-right groups organised a rabble of 50, from as far afield as Scotland, for a demo and rally in Byker, the east end of Newcastle, writes Norman Hall, Gateshead Socialist Party.
11 May 2016
TUSC announces '20-city tour': the socialist case against the EU
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition has released the initial dates of a 20-city tour it is hosting in May and June under the heading 'The socialist case against the EU'.
16 March 2016
Big boosts at Northern Socialist Party conference
The Socialist Party northern regional conference acted as a political springboard, giving us a big boost for the tasks ahead, writes Elaine Brunskill, Northern Socialist Party secretary.
24 February 2016
Gateshead: reprieve for respite centre
Cabinet papers show that, following protests, Gateshead's council is to back down over the closure of Grove House - a respite centre for children and a respite and day centre for adults, all with serious disabilities.
20 January 2016
Gateshead carers oppose respite centre closures
For years Gateshead's Labour councillors have boasted they would always protect frontline services for the most vulnerable, writes Elaine Brunskill
11 November 2015
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. College and uni lecturers lead the fightback.
11 November 2015
Fight now on to save disabled respite centre
Gateshead's Labour council plans the closure of Grove House, a respite centre for mentally and physically disabled children between eight and 18 years of age, among the most vulnerable members of society.
2 June 2015
The escalation of action by around 300 engineering service workers has thwarted the Kone bosses' attempts to use a tracking system as a disciplinary tool
27 May 2015
Mood remains rock solid on Kone picket
Kone workers have escalated their action to a two week all-out stoppage
20 May 2015
Defend NHS pay: Nurses could strike if the Tories' talk of a "seven-day NHS" results in attacks on unsocial hour and weekend working payments, according to the leader of the Royal College of Nurses, Dr Peter Carter
13 May 2015
Kone engineering service workers have been on strike every Monday over plans to use unreliable tracking devices in their vehicles, writes Elaine Brunskill.
22 April 2015
Across the country around 300 engineering service workers, employed by the lift firm Kone, are holding regular Monday strikes
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