Leicester

By 02/10/2012 Read More →

Fight back against cuts to the NHS

Press release Leicester Socialist Party is hosting a public meeting on Wednesday 2nd October at 7.30pm in The Red Tent, Pocklingtons Walk to discuss the attacks being made to the NHS. Workers from local hospitals will give first-hand accounts of the threats posed to services. The number of ambulance stations in the East Midlands is being reduced from […]

Police and council require great criticism, not credit

On June 11, 2012, the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) held a meeting at the Highfields Community Centre to mark the publication of their enlightening and critical report on the (mis)policing of the sad day that the English Defence League were allowed (most notably by Sir Peter Soulsby) to march triumphantly through the centre of […]

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Anti-EDL protests on Saturday
By 07/02/2012 Read More →

Anti-EDL protests on Saturday

Hundreds of local people turned out to oppose the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Leicester on 4 February. Unfortunately, a massive Police operation involving 2,200 officers on duty, horses, dogs and riot vans allowed around 400 EDL thugs to march through the city centre. It is likely to top the £850,000 cost of having […]

Posted in: Anti-racism
By 23/01/2012 Read More →

Oppose the EDL’s racism in Leicester on the 4th February 2012

This article was published in 2012 The ‘English Defence League’ (EDL) is threatening to visit Leicester on Saturday February 4th. The last time they came, in October 2010, they attacked shoppers and smashed city centre shops. They also broke away from Police control and attempted to march on Highfields, an area with a large Muslim […]

Posted in: Anti-racism

Aftermath of riots: where do we go from here?

A Question Time style debate has been organised in Leicester to discuss the causes of the riots and what demands communities that are affected by cuts, job losses and police brutality and racism put forward. Please come along to this important event to put across your views and hear what the communities have to say. […]

Posted in: Leicester, Youth

More cuts to come in Leicester’s hospitals – a campaign needed to fight back!

Socialist Party public meeting Tuesday 13th September 7.30pm F-Bar, 95 WALNUT ST, LE2 7LA Further cuts to the NHS have been announced in addition to the UHL job losses and hike in car parking charges. The hospital is saying that this needs to be done because of a £8 million overspend. But where has this […]

UHL: making staff and patients pay!

University Hospital Leicester trust has come up with a ’10 point plan’ of cuts because it says it overspent by £8m on the first few months of this year. The trust is applying to become a Foundation Trust and also needs to make £158m worth of cuts over the next five years as a result […]

By 29/06/2011 Read More →

We cannot work for nothing. Fully fund the NHS!

SOCIALIST PARTY PUBLIC MEETING TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER, 7:30PM, F BAR, 95 WALNUT ST, LE2 7LA The Chief Executive of UHL has threatened that staff will not be paid in August and September, if current spending rates continue at Leicester’s hospitals. Already, 200 staff have not been paid for overtime this month. Staff have been asked […]