Swindon - Demonstrate This Saturday!

GMB have called a demonstration in Swindon for 17th March, on the theme of “We demand Respect at work”, which will be led by the strikers from Carillion at the Great Western Hospital.

Assemble 11:30 am behind Broad Green Community Centre, Salisbury Street, Swindon, of 17th March. Rally at 1:00 pm Canal Wharf

Please bring banners

Swindon tenants claim vote victory

Council housing campaigners scored a victory in Swindon today when thousands of the local authority's tenants voted overwhelmingly against plans to transfer of their homes to private providers.

In a ballot of more than 10,000 Swindon council tenants, nearly 73 per cent voted against the plans despite the city authority's best efforts to persuade them otherwise.

"The Swindon tenants' Vote No campaign was a grass-roots affair," said Paul Burnham of Defend Council Housing, which helped run the campaign.

"The council spent in excess of £600,000 on the transfer consultation, while the Vote No campaign spent less than £6,000 - but still the tenants delivered a No vote."

From the SW and Cornwall District Committee

As chair of the South West and Cornwall District of the Communist Party of Britain, I'd like, on behalf of the Committee, to wish all comrades, supporters, friends and visitors to this website warmest season's greetings.

We hope that everyone who is celebrating a festival at this time - Christmas, Hannukah, Yalda (to name but three)- will have a very happy time and that all of you will be able rest and enjoy yourselves.

We hope also that 2012 will be a year of success in the struggle for a just, democratic and peaceful future.

With best wishes
In comradeship

Liz Payne
District Chair