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23 February 2022
Restore Cardiff's slashed services
At the People's Budget meeting called by Cardiff Trades Union Council, speaker after speaker spoke movingly about their personal experience, outlining the human cost of cuts.
23 February 2022
Brighton Green and Labour cuts - workers and communities fight back
Austerity has left Brighton without vital services, a housing crisis and rising poverty as wages are cut, with bills, council tax and charges on the rise
23 February 2022
Surrey: Unions and campaigns say stand as an anti-cuts candidate
Every week we hear about cuts to services - local bus services, public toilets closed, older people's homes closing, community centres - the list goes on
23 February 2022
Trade union support for standing anti-cuts election candidates
On the back of so much Tory sleaze and betrayals by Labour, many working-class people can't be blamed for having no faith in any of the establishment parties.
16 February 2022
Birmingham Erdington by-election
The enthusiasm and energy in a packed-out meeting was palpable, at the prospect of a truly anti-austerity pro-worker candidate
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.
9 February 2022
Dave Nellist talking with striking bin workers in Birmingham. Dave is standing for TUSC in the 3 March Erdington byelection. Click for details to help or donate.
9 February 2022
Swansea Trades Council pledges to fight local government cuts
Swansea Trades Council held an open conference on 26 January to discuss Swansea council's budget proposals for 2022-23 and the medium-term plan for the next three years.
9 February 2022
Cuts created NHS waiting list crisis
In desperate need of urgent spinal surgery, I am forced to be a patient patient. Due to the long waiting list, I am left bedbound whilst in immense pain.
2 February 2022
Starmer's Tory-lite Labour is no alternative.
Under Boris Johnson it's one law for us and one for the rich and powerful.
That means the recently revealed lockdown lawbreaking, sleaze and crony Covid contracts. But also the policies that make the rich richer while workers and our families suffer.
2 February 2022
Hackney Unison to encourage anti-cuts candidates
This was emailed to all 1,600 union members of Hackney local government Unison.
2 February 2022
Essex Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is meeting on 1 February to discuss what services people need locally, especially council housing, and how to fight for this at the local elections in May.
2 February 2022
Portsmouth: Council workers leaving and tenants' double whammy
Council workers are leaving. They can't live off the wages paid by the council.
2 February 2022
Bristol Labour £19.5 million cuts: At a Bristol council cabinet meeting, a GMB union representative for Avon and Wessex declared: "Low-paid citizens face a triple whammy of a 3% rise in council tax, 4% rise in rent, and probably 20 to 30% rise in their service charges."
26 January 2022
Trade unions and the fight against council cuts
Interview: Unite's strategy on fighting the cuts: Socialist Party member Onay Kasab, recently appointed Lead for Local Government in Unite the Union, spoke to the Socialist
26 January 2022
Hundreds protest to save St Mary's Leisure Centre in Southampton
Southampton Tory council closed St Marys Leisure Centre on 22 December, locking out hundreds of users. They falsely claim that the building requires "millions" to maintain.
19 January 2022
Birmingham: Cuts consultations replaced by computer game
Birmingham City Council traditionally holds public consultations on its annual budget, but for 2022 it has decided to change the format
12 January 2022
10,000 tube workers vote to strike over jobs, terms and pension cuts
London Underground bosses refused to give assurances on jobs, pensions and working conditions.
12 January 2022
People's Budget: We beat council cuts before, we will again
Leeds Labour council is preparing to pass on another round of Tory austerity.
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