Reports and campaigns
23 October 2019
NEU members strike against sixth-form funding cuts
"The funding for school kids has been cut catastrophically, but the cuts for students aged 16-18 have been even worse," said Alan Clifford, National Education Union (NEU) teachers' rep at Notre Dame Sixth Form College, to Socialist Party members visiting their picket line.
23 October 2019
Asda contracts: Vital that GMB mobilises for industrial action
About 400 hundred Asda workers and members of the GMB union marched defiantly through Leeds on 16 October, angry at the company's plans to sack staff members that hadn't signed up to the company's 'Contract 6'- with its unacceptable working conditions - by a 2 November deadline.
23 October 2019
Marion Lloyd for PCS union general secretary
Nominations for the PCS union general secretary election closed on 14 October, and details of branch nominations have now been published.
23 October 2019
Which way forward for the working people and youth of Nigeria?
Come hear about the struggle for a mass party of the working class and a socialist programme in Nigeria
23 October 2019
Join the party that dares to fight for socialism
More than a decade on from the world economic crash, the ongoing capitalist crisis is ravaging lives across the planet - with wars, homelessness, poverty and inequality
23 October 2019
Bradford: Workers walk out over council cuts
"If these cuts go through we won't be able to run these services," said Unite libraries shop steward Karen Raynor, on the £2 million cuts to Bradford council's libraries, museums and galleries
16 October 2019
Massive vote for strike action: - "We're out to win!"
There was a deafening roar of approval at a CWU meeting when a 97.1% vote for strike action was announced
16 October 2019
Marion is on the election ballot paper, having won 39 nominations
16 October 2019
Be part of the future: join the Socialist Party
Capitalism offers us climate change, poverty, and constant instability
16 October 2019
Mass union mobilisation needed to counter anti-choice group
Waltham Forest has become the focus of intense activity by an anti-abortion rights group
16 October 2019
Pressure needed to force secret police disclosure
For at least 40 years, special undercover sections of the police spied on trade unionists, socialist organisations including the Socialist Party, and campaigners such as the family of Stephen Lawrence, victim of a racist murder.
16 October 2019
Trade unionists discuss climate change
Socialist Party members attended a climate change discussion event organised by members of the National Education Union on 12 October.
16 October 2019
NEU support staff dismiss Tory 'extra funding' hype
The National Education Union was formed in September 2018 to include school teachers, further education lecturers, education support staff and teaching assistants.
16 October 2019
Hackney SEND transport workers achieve victory
Drivers and passenger assistants employed by Hackney Council in the Special Education Needs Service have won an outstanding victory following strike action in support of a pay claim.
16 October 2019
RMT: Jared Wood - Fighting cuts, defending jobs, pay and conditions
Ballot papers will be posted to RMT transport union members this week to fill a seat on the union's executive committee from the London transport region.
16 October 2019
Wales: Hundreds march to save the Orb works
On 12 October steelworkers from all over Britain joined hundreds of Orb workers and their families on an impressive march through Newport, South Wales, to demand that the Tata Orb steelworks in the city is saved.
15 October 2019
Flooring workers strike, Derbyshire
More than 70 production workers at Forbo Flooring UK in Ripley, Derbyshire began a series of 48-hour strikes on Tuesday 15 October
9 October 2019
Attacks on Caerphilly waste management workers
Unison and GMB trade union banners brightened the rain outside Caerphilly council offices on 3 October. The air rang with chants as waste management workers and their supporters demanded fair play for themselves and five unfairly sacked workmates.
9 October 2019
BEIS: Outsourced caterers' indefinite strike victory
More than nine months of action, including three months on indefinite strike, have paid off
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