Campaigns

As we take to the streets to march against racism on 28 March, trade unionists and campaigners know that the threat from Reform UK and the far right is growing. But we also know that racism doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Enfield Council has over £75 million in reserves, plus is trumpeting an extra £203 million ‘Fair Funding Review’ money but still Enfield Labour council is planning £12 million of more cuts!

Socialist Students organised a campaign stall opposing Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East at KCL uni in central London. Lots of people queued up to take leaflets, hungry for ideas on how to stop this devastating conflict.

Buoyed by forcing Newham Labour council to backtrack on attacks on libraries and the reinstatement of a suspended rep, 200 workers and supporters protested outside the council’s budget meetings.

Several years after Newham’s Labour-run council shamefully approved plans that paved the way for the loss of much of the iconic Durning Hall community centre, the building has stood largely dormant.

Hillingdon Trades Council organised a preliminary meeting to discuss “Can socialists and the Green Party find common ground to take on Reform and establishment parties in the May council elections”.

Local campaigners are organising a ‘people’s budget’ conference in Enfield, north London. It’s backed by the Socialist Party, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), the trade union council, and Your Party supporters in Enfield.

Socialist Party members from across London joined local community groups, young people and trade unionists in a counter-protest against the now-far-right Ukip’s “mass deportations tour”,

The protest, by West Ham fans, follows last year’s successful campaign to reinstate concession tickets, which were cruelly removed by the club. This would have meant that pensioners, as well as young and disabled people, would have had to pay full price.

Thousands of students have begun university with tuition fees rising for the first time in over a decade, increased by a Labour government. While a financial crisis is sweeping universities, Keir Starmer rolled out the red carpet for bigot-in-chief Donald Trump.