Last year’s general election saw a historic surge for Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-austerity manifesto. A large part of that wave was the 800,000 voters who switched their vote on the question of education. That crisis and that wave has not gone away. On 23 March hundreds of parents, teachers, students, education trade unions and anti-cuts campaigners […]
Passing the council cuts test The editorial of the April edition of Socialism Today, No.217 The age of austerity has claimed its first failing local authority. In February the chief financial officer of Northamptonshire county council declared that it was at risk of spending £21.1m more in the 2017-18 financial year than the resources it […]
The snow has now mostly melted away. But the chaos is still fresh in our minds. It’s true the weather was severe, particularly in Scotland. But it laid bare the bosses’ ruthless pursuit of profit and the inability of Britain’s austerity-ravaged infrastructure to cope. However, it also showed the capacity of ordinary people to organise. […]
Read this week's #NSSN bulletin no.566: Workers start 2022 on the picket line!
https://shopstewards.net/2022/01/nssn-566-workers-start-2022-on-the-picket-line/
