Following a successful rally in support of Junior Doctors and the future of the NHS, Leicestershire Against the Cuts held a well-attended public meeting on Monday night to discuss how we can build linkages between unions and community groups in defence of all public services. With the government refusing to talk to Junior Doctors and […]
By Alex Morgan Over 300 workers for ‘food giant’ Samworth Brothers packed a meeting in Leicester on Friday night to hear food workers’ union BFAWU’s response to recent threats to their pay. The company is one of the largest employers in the city, with some 5,000 workers across nine sites. Nationwide anger felt at the […]
Campaigners are protesting in Leicester this weekend to demand an end to the political attacks on the funding of Leicestershire’s fire services. The event intends to send a clear message to all politicians that they should not play with fire when it comes to our lives. Protestors armed with banners and placards will be meeting […]
On October 5 the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) hosted a well-attended public meeting in Leicester city centre. Around 40 people turned out to discuss the effect that Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Party’s new leader will have on building resistance to Tory austerity. Former Labour councillor, Wayne Naylor, spoke passionately at the meeting, […]
“First-Person article” that I got published in today’s Leicester Mercury. Pay cuts and misery for us… but pay rises and jollies for them? Then our leaders have the gall to repeat the lie that austerity and further public sector cuts are the only way we can save our economy. Yet if they were to collect […]
When looking through some old copies of the Leicester Mercury I came across this article that I hadn’t previously seen which was published in the paper last month, on Wednesday 29th April.
May Day is celebrated as a day of international solidarity between workers and the oppressed around the globe. So earlier today I was happy to participate in the annual May Day rally and march here in Leicester. A number of excellent speakers addressed the rally in the city centre, but with the elections looming […]
Earlier today, local campaigners working with 38 Degrees held a protest in town to oppose the anti-democratic nature of the little-known Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). In Leicester the only political party take part in today’s Global Day of Action against TTIP were members of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC). TUSC parliamentary […]
Listen to the people! That’s the message that local Trade Union and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) affiliate, Leicester Independent Councillors Against Cuts, will be taking to a council budget-setting meeting on Wednesday 25 February. For any Labour councillors willing to listen, the Leicester TUSC street ballot on Saturday 21st February sent a clear message: Leicester voters […]
At last weeks full Council meeting (on November 13) a small protest was organized by the workers and volunteers who run the cities adventure playgrounds. In the spirit of the protests organized last year, this was a polite bid to persuade Sir Peter Soulsby’s Council, or at least some of the Councillor’s under his antidemocratic […]
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