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21 April 2021
Bus workers protest Go-Ahead's 'fire and rehire'
The Go-Ahead group runs bus services in Manchester and is currently using 'fire and rehire' to cut drivers' pay and conditions. Go-Ahead is also a big operator in Transport for London (TfL).
24 March 2021
Following the vigils for Sarah Everard, the chairs of Southwark and Lewisham trades councils issued a joint statement
29 April 2020
Cleaning staff at Lewisham Hospital who have taken strike action over unpaid wages have won
18 March 2020
Workers at Lewisham coronavirus hospital walk out after not being paid
"Infected patients are now being admitted into the hospital, but the cleaners have downed tools because they haven't been paid"
2 October 2019
Active and strong member of Socialist Party reaches 80
Socialists in south east London are celebrating the 80th birthday of Peter Redfarn
31 October 2018
Build for national strike action: An insultingly low figure: that's the reality of Phillip Hammond's budget announcement of £400 million in capital spending for schools.
26 September 2018
Huddersfield campaigners keep their powder dry
Hands Off HRI has called a public meeting to assess the recent announcements on the future of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary (HRI).
19 September 2018
Lewisham: binning the rates rise
Lewisham and Southwark Socialist Party members called a protest on 15 September alongside Catford Against Social Cleansing
12 September 2018
Catford campaign against regeneration
Lewisham in south London has a big problem with a lack of council and social housing. Not enough has been built and existing homes are being lost to housing associations, right-to-buy schemes and 'regeneration', social cleansing schemes.
2 May 2018
Young people trapped in private rental
Housing costs force workers out of London: It's a tough time to be a young person in Britain. Almost two-fifths of Millennials, young people born by 2000, rent privately at 30
6 September 2017
Schools and teaching: A perfect storm of cuts, underfunding, excessive workloads and low pay
Schools return this week for a new academic year with the usual mix of emotions but with the prospect of budget cuts lingering in the background
23 August 2017
Lewisham 1977: When socialists and workers defeated the far-right National Front
40 years ago almost to the day before Charlottesville, on 13 August 1977, the fascist National Front aimed to march through Lewisham
15 August 2017
'Ana Key MP' - Socialist artist responds to attacks
They push through the same cuts, take the same exorbitant wage (mine earned three times the median wage of her constituents!) and ignore the same problems, writes Ellen Kenyon Peers, Lewisham Socialist Party.
3 August 2017
Labour MP attacks local student over anti-austerity art project
The Socialist Party condemns Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft for reporting a student to the police
26 April 2017
Forest Hill School demonstration
200 staff and parents marched through the streets of Catford in support of Forest Hill School, Lewisham, south London on 22 April
12 April 2017
Schools are under the greatest threat for more than a generation and an equally powerful response is needed. In the next couple of months, the scale of the cuts will be evident
29 March 2017
Forest Hill school in Lewisham fights back
National Union of Teachers members had their first day of strike action on 21 March. As one picket line banner read, it's 'not our deficit'. Why should students and staff suffer?
1 February 2017
Millwall FC's ground in south London, the Den, along with many local residents, no longer faces eviction
18 January 2017
Millwall FC move threat: Defend the Den - 'wall not Renewal
Millwall's ground, the Den, could be forced from Lewisham, south London, to Kent. A major new development around the ground is being built by Renewal - a company registered in a tax haven, run by a former council officer, and which used to count the former mayor of Lewisham as a director.
30 November 2016
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