By Tony Church Leicester Everybody’s Reading festival is performing my play A Man of Humble Beginnings, about pioneering Leicester socialist, Amos Sherriff. Amos was born in a Leicester slum in 1856. Sent to work at six years old, he could not read or write until, at 22, the Salvation Army taught him to do so. Amos […]
Members of the Leicestershire Anti- Bedroom Tax Federation and the UNITE Community trade union who went to Leicester City Council’s Housing Scrutiny Commission last night felt that they had some success. Andy Connolly, Assistant City Mayor responsible for Housing, and a number of councillors on the commission said that they would be prepared to consider […]
Here in Leicester Mothers Day descended upon us with sub-zero temperatures and a dusting of snow. For those who can afford to heat their homes such biting weather can be kept at bay, but for increasing numbers of people this is simply not possible. Rent rises combined with the incoming brutal bedroom tax, heaped on […]
All facts and quotes cited in this article have been obtained from the Leicester City Council’s September 2012 Homelessness Review. A longer more detailed version of this article can be found here. The latest Homelessness Review is a sprawling 123 page document which masks the brutal cuts that Labour Councillors are in the process of […]
A protest by homeless people took place in Leicester on Saturday 2nd February, supported by the Socialist Party and others. The Labour council is planning £2.2 million worth of cuts to the homeless service which could lead to 200 hostel beds being lost. Other vital services to the homeless will also be cut. Homeless people […]
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