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Demanding An End to All Council Cuts in Leicester
On Wednesday February 20, Leicester’s Labour City Council once again voted through a series of further massive cuts to local spending. In opposition to this appalling behaviour, the Leicester Socialist Party helped organise a lobby of the budget-setting meeting, where we called upon our Labour Council to launch a fight back against all cuts. For […]
How We Can Get Rid of the Tories
A speech to Leicester Socialist Party public meeting (2/2/19) The Socialist Party campaigned in the EU referendum to leave the EU. Our slogan was to “vote OUT the Tories”. Correctly, we predicted that a leave vote would cause a crisis for the ruling party of capitalism, and would undercut support for the far-right. We also […]
Linking LGBT+ Rights to the Fight for Socialism
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. […]
Women’s Lives Matter
Congratulations to Women’s Lives Matter for organising a brilliant first national meeting. People from around the UK attended and brought with them a wealth of experience, ideas and proposals. Sinead Daly, CEO of Dundee and Angus Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, opened the meeting by saying that we shouldn’t have to have this discussion. […]
Leicester Health Campaigners Demand Consultation on the Removal of the Intensive Care Beds From the General
Around 90 people gathered for a public meeting on Saturday called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) to discuss controversial local plans to remove intensive care beds from Leicester General Hospital without a consultation. Campaigners believe that the removal of the beds will be the first step toward downgrading the General Hospital as an acute […]
If We Fight, We Can Win! Lessons From Two NHS Campaign Victories
“If we fight, we can win!” is the title of our just-published full-colour pamphlet (July 2018), which provides detailed analyses of two successful NHS campaigns. Covering 30 pages, you can read about how the Glenfield Heart Unit was saved and how a neurological ward at Mansfield Community Hospital was also recently saved from Tory cuts. […]
The Trade Union Movement Must Fight for Justice for Leicester’s Super-Exploited Garment Workers
The full effects of Tory policies both economic and social are being felt in Leicester, as sweatshop conditions and shocking illegal levels of pay persist in 2018 – and the “hostile environment” migration policy means it’s harder than ever for workers to fight back. A recent Financial Times article shed new light on an issue […]
Successful Glenfield Campaigners Launch New Group to Fight All NHS Cuts in Leicestershire
Yesterday, the Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) campaign launched in a standing-room-only Leicester Secular Hall, with the meeting brimming with energy to fight the Tories’ brutal NHS cuts. SONHSL will seek to build on the incredible success of the campaign to stop the closure of Glenfield Children’s Heart Unit, which mobilised thousands of people in […]
Leicester University Students Vow to Continue the Fight Against Willetts, Cuts, and the Marketisation of Education
Written by Artur Wilk and Taran Spivey (originally published by on the Leicester Socialist Students blog) From early morning Monday 5th March to the afternoon of Wednesday 7th March, we students occupied part of the administrative floor of the Fielding Johnson building on the University of Leicester campus. It was one of many student occupations […]
