By Alex Morgan Over 300 workers for ‘food giant’ Samworth Brothers packed a meeting in Leicester on Friday night to hear food workers’ union BFAWU’s response to recent threats to their pay. The company is one of the largest employers in the city, with some 5,000 workers across nine sites. Nationwide anger felt at the […]
The massive and growing threats posed to human life by global warming are critical issues that must be addressed. This is why hundreds of concerned citizens marched through Leicester earlier today — to demand that our government take meaningful action in the forthcoming climate negociations which start later this month in Paris. Today’s protest was, […]
Campaigners are protesting in Leicester this weekend to demand an end to the political attacks on the funding of Leicestershire’s fire services. The event intends to send a clear message to all politicians that they should not play with fire when it comes to our lives. Protestors armed with banners and placards will be meeting […]
On October 5 the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) hosted a well-attended public meeting in Leicester city centre. Around 40 people turned out to discuss the effect that Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party’s new leader will have on building resistance to Tory austerity. Former Labour councillor, Wayne Naylor, spoke passionately at the meeting, […]
“First-Person article” that I got published in today’s Leicester Mercury. Pay cuts and misery for us… but pay rises and jollies for them? Then our leaders have the gall to repeat the lie that austerity and further public sector cuts are the only way we can save our economy. Yet if they were to collect […]
With the Turkish elections fast approaching on June 7, Dave Nellist, the national Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) sends the following message in solidarity with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi – HDP): Across the world the political representatives of the rich multinational companies and bankers have attempted to force […]
Leicester Independent Councillors Against Cuts (LICAC) say they would keep the promises they have made to the city and oppose all cuts to public services. This is the same pledge made by all 135 parliamentary candidates standing for Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), the coalition of which LICAC is a member, across the country. […]
May Day is celebrated as a day of international solidarity between workers and the oppressed around the globe. So earlier today I was happy to participate in the annual May Day rally and march here in Leicester. A number of excellent speakers addressed the rally in the city centre, but with the elections looming […]
This letter was recently sent to a member of the Campaign Against NHS Privatisation by TUSC’sParliamentary Candidate for Leicester West, Heather Rawling. Dear Campaign Against NHS Privatisation (Leicester), Thank you for your enquiry re my position and the position of TUSC on the NHS. TUSC is opposed to all cuts. I am totally opposed to cuts […]
Judging by last Sunday’s Bollywood convoy, speaking directly to his electorate is old-hat for 28 year Labour incumbent Keith Vaz. Mr Vaz thus managed to create a media spectacle which eclipsed even the recent visit of Labour-leader, Ed Miliband. Many politicians now perform like world-class actors in their own right, blurring the boundary between politics and […]
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