Teachers Strike to Defend Children’s Education and Save Teaching Assistant Jobs Heather Rawling retired NUT member In a marvellous show of solidarity, teachers at an inner city school have taken strike action to defend children’s education and the jobs of eight teaching assistants. A united picket line demonstrated the determination of teachers to win their […]
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. […]
Article written by Tessa Warrington. The three-night sleep-out outlined in this article is ongoing and campaigners are still camped on the doorstep of the Town Hall (May 1). Please do go and along and show your support! Michael is homeless. I’m talking to him at the three night sleep-out organised by the homeless action group […]
Here in Leicester Mothers Day descended upon us with sub-zero temperatures and a dusting of snow. For those who can afford to heat their homes such biting weather can be kept at bay, but for increasing numbers of people this is simply not possible. Rent rises combined with the incoming brutal bedroom tax, heaped on […]
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. […]
All facts and quotes cited in this article have been obtained from the Leicester City Council’s September 2012 Homelessness Review. A longer more detailed version of this article can be found here. The latest Homelessness Review is a sprawling 123 page document which masks the brutal cuts that Labour Councillors are in the process of […]
A protest by homeless people took place in Leicester on Saturday 2nd February, supported by the Socialist Party and others. The Labour council is planning £2.2 million worth of cuts to the homeless service which could lead to 200 hostel beds being lost. Other vital services to the homeless will also be cut. Homeless people […]
Leicester City Council are currently “consulting” on how to cut a third of the budget of homelessness services for the city over the next two years. This will involve the closure of homeless shelters, like the Dawn Centre (one proposal is for it to be turned into an ‘assessment centre’, whatever that means), Upper Tichbourne St and […]
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 […]
To mark a new year committed to creating a “world where everyone gets the help they need in a crisis”, the British Red Cross has recruited 2 Sisters Food Group’s chairman Sir Charles Allen as the incoming chairman of their board of trustees. That is the very same man who has attained a certain level […]
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