The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) today announced its second local parliamentary candidate for the General Election. Andrew Walton, who has lived in Highfields for the last 20 years, will be standing in the Leicester South constituency. He will be working closely with the present city councillors who are part of Leicester independent Councillors […]
Speech given by Cllr Barbara Potter on February 25, 2015 to the Labour City Council’s budget-setting meeting in support of Leicester Independent Councillors Against Cuts’ (LICAC) proposed no-cuts budget amendment. All the Labour councillors present voted to reject LICAC’s no-cuts amendment, and to accept a totally unnecessary cuts budget that will see £50+ million cut […]
“Tax avoidance – everyone does it.” That is according to multimillionaire, former hedge fund manager and Tory donor, Lord Fink. While his claim certainly isn’t true for the majority of us, amongst the circles that Lord Fink mixes in, it is par for the course. For the wealthiest in society there are loopholes and quirks […]
“Students and workers, unite and fight!” was the chant that summed up the spirit of the Leicester March For Free Education. With support from local anti- cuts councillors, environmentalists and trade unionists; student activists took to the streets to build a movement to end austerity. “We’re leading the struggle against fees, cuts and privatisation,” said […]
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) was held in Davos, Switzerland, last week. A global elite of world leaders, intellectuals, philanthropists, entrepreneurs and representatives of big business gathered to focus their ‘talents’ on the most pressing issues in the world today. Inequality and poverty were high on the agenda. On the same day, Global Justice […]
Police provoked outrage last week at Warwick University with the disgraceful brutality that was used against students who were holding a peaceful occupation calling for free education. CS spray was used, a taser was drawn and a female student was dragged across the room by her hair. Yesterday afternoon, students at Leicester University gathered to […]
Summing up his speech to the crowd of firefighters gathered in Leicester city centre today, Dave Limer, a executive council member of the East Midlands Fire Brigades Union observed… “What member of the public wants to see a sixty year-old firefighter rescue them from a building? None! We don’t want to be on strike, we […]
“Leaving the Labour Party was a big thing. All my family have always voted Labour. They’re no longer the party who stick up for ordinary people. We all need to stick together – the People’s Budget marks an opportunity to create something new.” On 25 October around 60 people gathered to participate in Leicester’s first ever People’s […]
Today radiographers from Leicester hospitals came together for a 30 strong picket outside Leicester Royal Infirmary, taking industrial action for the first time in over thirty years. Following a ballot in which 53.7% of members voted for strike action, work was stopped between 9am and 1pm. In addition to this the Society of Radiography members […]
On October 1st I was invited by pupils of Jame’Ah Girls Academy in Leicester to talk about disability rights and discrimination at an event called “Years Of Struggle.” Seventy pupils aged from eleven to sixteen were in attendance. Firstly we talked about people’s perceptions and stereotypes- the things that come to mind upon hearing the […]
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