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27 October 2020
Working-class based campaign needed
The defiance of Tier 3 proposals by Andy Burnham took the Tory government by surprise
9 August 2017
RMT condemns Welsh government rail privatisation
Rail union RMT has condemned plans by the Welsh Labour government to further privatise the Welsh rail network
3 May 2017
TUSC Mersey metro mayoral candidate Roger Bannister debated in the studio with other candidates on the BBC's Sunday Politics North West programme
26 April 2017
Letters to the Socialist's editors including the general election, Militant in Liverpool, the Holocaust and football.
5 April 2017
TUSC to challenge for the Merseyside 'metro-mayor'
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is on the ballot paper for the inaugural election of the Liverpool City Region directly-elected mayor (the 'metro-mayor').
2 February 2017
Manchester metro mayor: How will you fight cuts?
Andy Burnham, Blairite MP for Leigh, has been selected as the Labour Party candidate for Greater Manchester metropolitan mayor. The new position is part of an undemocratic devolution of powers - and austerity.
2 December 2015
Belgium: ruling class can't be trusted with 'security'
If we consider how Belgium's government deals with our wages, our benefits and our jobs, we should have no confidence to entrust them with our security.
28 July 2015
Mirror and Metro report view of "exhausted nurse"
Jacqui Berry, a TUSC candidate in Kent in the May 2015 elections and a member of the Socialist Party, expressed her view on YouTube of the government's attacks on the NHS
18 June 2014
Brazil: Upsurge in struggles of workers and homeless as the World Cup begins
In the context of a wave of struggle and protests in the run-up to the World Cup, the São Paulo Metro workers began a powerful strike on 5 June (temporarily suspended at the time of writing)
10 June 2014
Brazil: Solidarity with sacked Metro workers
A Metro strike in Sao Paolo state in Brazil is underway; 60 striking workers have been sacked and are appealing for international solidarity
30 October 2013
20 years of privatised train robbery
November marks 20 years since John Major's Tory government gave the go-ahead to splitting up and selling off British Rail
9 August 2013
Churchill Cleaners' landmark victory
Churchill Cleaners working on the Tyne and Wear Metro system have secured a major victory at an Employment Tribunal after the RMT union took up their case
17 July 2013
Two weeks of strike action by Churchill cleaners
Churchill cleaners for the Tyne and Wear Metro have mounted a serious escalation in their industrial action
19 February 2013
Tyne & Wear metro cleaners up the ante
Churchill cleaners have stepped up their battle for a living wage, by now striking for seven days
25 January 2013
Twelfth day of strike action by Tyne and Wear metro cleaners
Churchill cleaners are still battling against poverty pay
23 January 2013
Metro strike: Transport union RMT has announced that cleaners working for Churchill on the Tyne and Wear Metro will strike again for 24 hours, starting on 23 January...
30 December 2012
Tyne and Wear Metro strikers tell bosses to end poverty pay
Churchill cleaners working on Tyne and Wear Metro have taken a further 72 hours of strike action over the Christmas holiday
8 August 2012
Newcastle's loudest protest! - Supporting Churchill cleaners
"Who are we - RMT" and "Low Pay - No Way", were amongst the deafening chants at a protest outside the front door of Nexus, the regional transport authority
Tyne & Wear Metro cleaners, employed by Churchill, taking 48 hours of strike action, photo Elaine Brunskill
6 August 2012
Support Churchill cleaners, Tyne & Wear Metro
Churchill cleaners working on Tyne & Wear Metro have taken a further 48 hours of strike action against stingy bosses in a highly profitable company who had the audacity to describe a zero increase pay offer as generous...
20 June 2012
Improved offer in Metro workers' pay fight
Following a successful 24-hour strike on 7 June, drivers, ticket inspectors and engineering workers covered by the Red Book Agreement were offered an improved pay award along with travel concessions on other train operating companies
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