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Save Glenfield children’s heart unit!
By 10/09/2012 Read More →

Save Glenfield children’s heart unit!

About a hundred and fifty people gathered at short notice on Saturday 8 September to show their opposition to the proposed closure of the children’s heart unit at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester. In a very noisy protest, cars hooted their support as the chanting protesters marched up and down Belgrave Road. The march was organised […]

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Caring For Profit

Public services should never be run for private profit; not prisons, not armed forces, nor education or healthcare. Nevertheless capitalist vultures pay no mind to such humane advice and are working hand-in-hand with political elites to undermine the hard-won gains of the working class. Taking his cue from New Labour, former Goldman Sachs merchant banker […]

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By 22/07/2012 Read More →

Save Children’s Heart Units

“My daughter wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the heart unit at Glenfield Hospital”.  This was one of the comments made on Leicester Socialist Party stall campaigning against the closure of the local children’s heart unit. The government want to cut the number of specialist heart units in the country down from 11 to […]

Posted in: Cuts, Hospitals, NHS, Trade Unions
By 10/05/2012 Read More →

Public Meeting – Stop the pensions robbery, the fight goes on!

Solidarity with UNITE, PCS and UCU members taking action on May 10th. Go down to a local picket line and give the strikers your support this morning. There will be a rally with speakers from striking unions at the Oddfellows Club on Humberstone Gate at 12 noon (this is not hosted by Leicester Socialist Party). Tuesday 15th May – […]

Save Our NHS – the fight goes on!

Leicester Socialist Party members attended a save the NHS public meeting called by the Labour MP Jon Ashworth. Over 250 people had turned up in attempt to save our National Health Service, to prevent further privatisation by multinational companies eager to exploit public services for profit. Ashworth had done a lot of work before the meeting and sent […]

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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 […]