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19 June 2019
Orgreave injustice - 35th anniversary march and rally
The 35th anniversary of the "Battle of Orgreave" was marked on Saturday 15 June with the biggest turnout yet of around 500 demonstrators, on what has become an annual march for "Truth and Justice", writes Alistair Tice, Yorkshire Socialist Party secretary.
7 November 2018
Stand up against abuse - justice not racism
Huddersfield has once again been in the news for all the wrong reasons, as 20 men found guilty of street grooming and abuse were jailed for a total of 221 years.
4 July 2018
Service users and families protest learning disability service cuts
Service users and carers protested outside Rotherham Town Hall against the council's decision to close centres
24 August 2017
Racist smears won't stop child sex abuse
The real answer to tackling abuse is not racial profiling. It starts with fully funding essential services
5 July 2017
200-year miscarriage of justice exposing ruling class
Book review: Exactly 200 years ago a 17 year-old Nottinghamshire girl was murdered walking home to Papplewick village from nearby Mansfield
7 October 2016
Twelve Asian men are in court on charges relating to an incident during a far-right demonstration in 2015
11 April 2016
Construction workers stop work to protest at the undermining of jobs and pay
All work was stopped at Templeborough Waste to Energy power station
6 April 2016
Bosses' and union tops' "agenda of misery"
Steel crisis: I was a steelworker for almost 40 years. Skilled jobs, when they are gone are gone. I feel like I've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
2 March 2016
Construction workers blockade plant against rat-race to the bottom
"Pay the rate, Pay the rate!" was the chant
24 February 2016
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles. National FE college strike; construction workers protest against employers breaking pay agreements; Independent newspaper to close.
9 December 2015
Strike in support of suspended headteacher
Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) at Listerdale Primary School in Rotherham have taken two days of strike action, on 2 and 3 December, against the unjustified suspension of their headteacher.
3 December 2015
Strike against suspension of headteacher
The NUT at Listerdale school took 2 days of strike action. Update added 7.12.15
10 June 2015
Probation workers: Probation workers in England and Wales organised by public sector union Unison had expected to take strike action for 24 hours on 11 June after employers have failed to improve a 0% pay-rise offer
9 February 2015
Rotherham: Farage humiliated by protesters
Nigel Farage was smuggled to safety by minders after TUSC supporters and others picketed Ukip's Rotherham office
14 January 2015
Rotherham town hall was flooded by angry pensioners demanding free travel on 5 January, writes Sharron Milsom, Sheffield North Socialist Party.
10 September 2014
Abuse: Cuts have robbed us of the time to talk to these young people
The recent horrific report on the cover up of large scale child sexual abuse in Rotherham was analysed in the last issue of the Socialist (issue 823). The week we have a powerful view written from personal experience.
3 September 2014
Rotherham: Council and police cover up abuse
There has been widespread revulsion and outrage at the findings of the report by Professor Alexis Jay into the horrendous abuse of children and young people in Rotherham, published on 26 August
14 May 2014
Freedom Riders- action brings victory
South Yorkshire's Freedom Riders win a victory in campaign to get back travel concessions
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