National demos provide an excellent opportunity to meet up with local activists who are united in seeing the need to join the fight back against the cuts. Thus rising very very early this morning, the Leicester contingent joined tens of thousands of others in London on the “Britain Needs a Pay Rise” national rally. Marching in […]
Today in the searing September sun in Birmingham, around 1,000 trade unionists and activists from across the region rallied in defiance of the attacks on the working class being hatched within the Tory Party’s annual conference. Unfortunately the Labour Party does nothing to distinguish themselves from our Tory class enemies, and after attending Labour’s conference […]
Scotland has voted “No” – while it is a pity that it is Salmond and not Cameron who is out of a job at the moment, there is still grounds for optimism. Whatever the result – we would still have to fight against austerity, be it from the SNP in Scotland, the Tories in Westminster, […]
Leicester Race Equality Centre (TREC) has represented the people of Leicester for the last 50 years, giving advice and support to an estimated 150,000 people during that time. Leicester is one of the few cities left in the UK with a Race Equality Centre and the city has been touted by the council, with their […]
On 6 February a Leicester Socialist Students member was arrested when taking part in a peaceful protest in support of striking university workers. He has now been released and charged over an alleged incident that took place during a Leicester University occupation in December 2013. Why have police waited almost two months to make the arrest on […]
By Heather Rawling (a report back on Thursday’s Leicestershire Against the Cuts meeting) Food banks are one of the biggest growing areas in the voluntary sector in Leicester. These are a direct result of the policies of the Com-Dem Government and the failure of Leicester City Labour Council to stand up and defend the services and […]
Yesterday, on the National Day of Action Against Austerity, protesters descended upon Braunstone estate in Leicester to demonstrate to the Labour Council that they would stand shoulder-to-shoulder to oppose the despised bedroom tax. The event was called as a joint initiative of Unite Community and the Leicestershire Anti-Bedroom Tax Federation in order to put extra […]
Nine year old school girl Hannah Brier, a friend of the Socialist Party in Leicester, was on the stall for her second time (with Kerry Feetham) on Saturday 20th April. Whilst discussing Thatcher’s legacy, Hannah came up with a “twist” on ‘Thatcher, Thatcher the milk snatcher’ and thought up the idea of giving out free […]
Steve Score, former secretary, Leicestershire Anti-Poll Tax Federation The campaign against Thatcher’s poll tax is an example of how a mass movement can defeat a government. 18 million people, organised through the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation, defied the law and refused to pay the tax. This not only forced the Tories to scrap it but […]
Last week some 1,200 workers took four days of strike action at four of Argos’ key regional distribution sites. This was in opposition to Argos’ decision to end their final salary pension scheme. If management does not back down, more industrial action will certainly be forthcoming. Given the recalcitrant nature of such ruling class managers, […]
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