Southampton: Keith Morrell, anti-cuts councillor, re-elected
Nick Chaffey, Southampton Socialist Party Sadly it wasn’t Jeremy Corbyn’s anti-austerity policies that were on offer in Southampton but his right-wing Blairite opponent, Labour council leader Simon Letts’ and his fellow councillors who have cruelly...
Passing the council cuts test
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...
Syriza victory shows austerity elite can be beaten!
Syriza victory raises workers’ hopes Public meetings in Oxford, Southampton, Reading and Portsmouth Tuesday 3 Feb, 7.30pm Students Union, Portsmouth Wednesday 4 Feb, 7.30pm RISC, 35-39 London Street, Reading Thursday 5 Feb, 7.30pm Avenue Campus, Highfield...
Teacher and health worker take fight to council in Oxford
Teacher Stella Collier and health worker James Morbin are standing for the Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition on the Blackbird Leys estate in city and county council by-elections on 27 November. Rather than stand up and fight wage cuts and privatisation, or...Socialist Party Southern Region Twitter
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