By Steve Score (reporting from Freemen’s Park campus picket line) Spirits were high on today’s frosty morning that striking FE teaching staff gathered outside Leicester College Freemen’s Park campus. The strike is over low pay as a result of what workers describe as sustained underfunding of Further Education. Many UCU (University and College Union) members in […]
With the Tories intent on destroying local government, Blairite-run Councils up-and-down the country just wring their hands and claim that there is nothing they can do except carry through devastating cuts. Yet many lay members of the Labour Party disagree with this spineless non-response to austerity, and in recent months two Constituency Labour Party’s (Islwyn […]
Just in case there was any doubt that it’s one law for them and another for us, Prince Philip cleared that up as he ploughed his tank-like Land Rover 4×4 into the path of a lowly Kia. He blamed his careless driving on being dazzled by the sun. “I’m such a fool,” he remarked to […]
Matt Wrack, leader of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), recently attacked ongoing Tory austerity which since 2010 has dismissed 9,000 fire and rescue service jobs in England, including almost 6,500 full-time firefighters. “Fire and rescue services in England are expected to do more with less, putting public safety at risk. Firefighters have been ensuring the […]
The growing Socialist Party LGBT+ group held its first national meeting of the year on 6 January. Around 20 of members met in London to discuss how we can fight for LGBT+ rights and build a mass movement against oppression. The meeting started with a general discussion on perspectives in the era of capitalist crisis. […]
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