By a Resident of Leicester A Man of Humble Beginnings charts the life of Leicester socialist, Amos Sherriff. Although originally written for four actors, it received its premiere as a one man show performed by its author, Tony Church, with recorded voices and photographs at the Upstairs at the Western theatre in the city on […]
After two years of futile negotiations with a government firmly committed to torching public services, members the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) were finally pushed to take strike action today in an effort to ward off the vicious vendetta the government is pursuing against the public. In this instance, firefighters across the country went on the […]
Members of the Leicestershire Anti- Bedroom Tax Federation and the UNITE Community trade union who went to Leicester City Council’s Housing Scrutiny Commission last night felt that they had some success. Andy Connolly, Assistant City Mayor responsible for Housing, and a number of councillors on the commission said that they would be prepared to consider […]
Support staff, members of GMB and UNISON at an inner city school in Leicester took strike action on 4 September against plans to halve the number of Teaching Assistants. Last term there were three days of strike action by teachers in the NUT at Uplands Junior School. These were over grievances against the head teacher […]
Last July the BBC reported that: “A £230m outsourcing deal between security firm G4S and Lincolnshire Police will be ‘closely monitored’ by the Home Affairs Select Committee. Chairman Keith Vaz said the committee is keeping an eye on the contract with G4S, which is under fire for a separate deal to provide staff for the […]
On Saturday Leicester Socialist Party members joined forces with local people protesting against the violent actions of Turkish police and the refusal of Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, to listen to the demonstrators. We are now proud to call ourselves “capulcular”, a word originally used by Erdogan, with the literal meaning of “rioter” or “riffraff”, but […]
Heather Rawling, “Letter: Braunstone, Leicester,” The Socialist, May 8, 2013. Tessa Warrington, “TUSC builds support in Leicester byelection,” The Socialist, May 15, 2013.
If you want to see what Britain will be like in a few years’ time, if the trend of the Con-Dem’s planned spending cuts, continued wholesale privatisation of our NHS and further erosion of our living standards is not overthrown by mass strike action on the part of the labour movement, then look at Greece. […]
On Wednesday 20 February, 200 homeless people, trade unionists and campaigners lobbied Leicester’s Labour council as they went in to vote for cuts. The anger of people there was reflected in the fact that just before the council meeting many of the protesters went into the Town Hall past the security and occupied the lobby. […]
Over a year ago an Islamic charity, As-Salaam, tried to buy a disused Scout Hut on Thurnby Lodge Estate in Leicester, intending to use it as a prayer room and community resource, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It was initially told by the council, who own the land, that it had succeeded in the tendering […]
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