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16 February 2022
West Sussex care campaigners' victory
West Sussex Tory council will not cut adult services in 2022 or 2023. Our campaign has certainly made an impact.
2 February 2022
Tories attack UC recipients with 'get any job' threat
Bosses used the pandemic as an excuse to maximise profits by driving down wages and conditions, and now struggle to recruit
19 January 2022
Mutual aid, the welfare state and the fight for a new mass workers' party
The Covid pandemic and its effects have deepened an already existing social crisis. Ravaged by years of cuts and privatisation, public services have been unable to meet the needs of working-class communities.
12 January 2022
Energy bosses: 'Jump, cuddle and eat porridge while we raise prices'
Struggling to pay your energy bills? The obvious solutions; a pay rise, decent pensions and benefits, bringing energy back into public ownership...
1 December 2021
Kickstart scheme 'insufficient and flawed'
The National Audit Office has released its report into the government's 'Kickstart Scheme'. When it was first announced, the scheme aimed to create hundreds of thousands of high-quality six-month work
10 November 2021
Harsh Tory regime for benefit claimants and workers
The Tory government is driving a harsh regime; both for those on benefits and for our PCS trade union members delivering these vital public services.
27 October 2021
Ably showing inadequacy, red tape and inhumanity of capitalism: This ten-part dramatisation is based on Stephanie Land's 2019 memoir, 'Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive'
27 October 2021
Carlisle says make the richest pay, not the poorest!
Carlisle Socialist Party held a protest on 16 October against cuts in living standards. With the retail price index already at 4.8% and expected to rise to 6%, this year's meagre wage rises are turning
20 October 2021
Unite and fight for 30,000 permanent DWP jobs
During the pandemic, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was forced to launch emergency recruitment of more than 13,000 additional staff
20 October 2021
I'm unemployed: For me vacancy crisis is a lie
I'm writing this at 7.10am. The other night, I had an interview at a local Tesco for the night shift.
13 October 2021
Social care funding needed now
The news media are keen to talk about shortages of petrol, HGV drivers, fruit pickers, etc, but they are not talking about the social care crisis caused by the shortage of carers.
6 October 2021
Ten years since our 330-mile Jarrow March for Jobs
In 1936, 200 unemployed workers marched from their homes in Jarrow in north-east England to London against mass unemployment, demanding the government re-establish the shipbuilding industry in their town
22 September 2021
TV Review - Help: Heart-wrenching portrayal of Covid care home crisis
'Help' is a heart-wrenching story of a care home in Liverpool for people with dementia. When the Covid-19 crisis hits the home, the main protagonist, Sarah, is faced with loss, pressure and difficult
22 September 2021
Tory cuts to UC: we need a union fightback
From 6 October Universal Credit will be cut by £20 per week
22 September 2021
W Sussex 'disability tax' - protest not going away
Warrior Carers protested outside West Sussex County Hall on 15 September. We were protesting about the unfair client contribution, also known as the 'disability tax'.
15 September 2021
The government doesn't seem to want to budge on removing the £1,000 a year uplift
8 September 2021
DWP: Demand safe working and more jobs
Resistance must be built to Tory attacks on the unemployed. In their drive to ramp up their harsh welfare system, they are prepared to put everyone's safety at risk. They plan to drag every claimant back
8 September 2021
End service cuts and care charges
Fight for free, public, adult social care: Tory-controlled West Sussex County Council (WSCC) is proposing to cut Adult Services by 50% from £10 million to £5 million per year
8 September 2021
Families demand rights for care home residents
While government guidance now allows us to go to pubs and music festivals, go on holidays, and meet up with friends, care home residents are being kept under lockdown
25 August 2021
Lessons from Poplar 100 years on
This year marks 100 years since the victory of Poplar council against austerity and unemployment, led by fighting Labour councillors who mobilised a mass movement of the working class
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