Defending the NHS is not a choice, it is a necessity. That was the consensus at the demonstration held earlier today outside the Leicester Royal Infirmary. Defying the chilling wind and icy rain, around 150 people from across Leicestershire gathered together to demand a better future for all — whether that be NHS workers slaving […]
Earlier today, Leicester Socialist Party hosted a determined public meeting to discuss how to build a fight-back against the escalating attacks upon our National Health Service. Addressing the gathering of around 40 people, the chair of the Save Glenfield Heart Unit campaign, Steve Score, emphasized the importance of “taking the momentum from the successful Glenfield […]
The NHS winter crisis has become an established part of the national calendar. But while last year the dominant image was that of patients left in trolleys in corridors, this year people are not even getting into the hospitals. Anyone switching on the news over Christmas would have seen images of ambulances queuing outside […]
With the Tories stumbling in the wake of Theresa’s Mayhem, Labour-run Councils now have yet another opportunity to organise a campaign of mass resistance to further Tory cuts to local services. But it seems that the leaders of many such Councils are deliberately blocking attempts to resist austerity. This week Leicester’s Labour-run City Council announced, […]
Steve Score, Chair of the Save Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre campaign Celebrations were taking place in Leicester city centre on the 30th November following an outstanding victory for the campaign to save congenital heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital. A mood of relief and of jubilation spread from campaigners to people across the region. We hope […]
Steve Score, chair, Save Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre campaign (personal capacity) The decision by NHS England to drop its proposal to end surgery at the East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre in Leicester is a very welcome victory. This is a victory for common sense. Glenfield – as we always said – is a brilliant service, […]
By Lindsey Morgan (translated from English to Polish by Artur Wilk) Oddział Leicester Partii Socjalistycznej oraz NSSN były obecne na niedzielnym, kryzysowym spotkaniu oddziału z pracownikami z Tulip, zakładzie przetwórstwa żywności w Coalville. Obecni pracownicy zagłosowali jednogłośnie za rozpoczęciem procedury akcji protestacyjnej. Miało to miejsce po załamaniu negocjacji pomiędzy Tulip a Związkiem Piekarzy (BFAWU). Pracownicy […]
Leicester Socialist Party and the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) attended an emergency branch meeting today for workers from Tulip, a food processing plant in Coalville. The members present voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action due to a series of abuses by their employers. This was after talks between Tulip and the Bakers’ Union […]
When it was announced that the racist National Front planned to descend on the small market town of Grantham, Lincolnshire, last Saturday, counter-demonstrators were given just one-day notice to organise. Yet in spite this, the far-right group were massively out-numbered. Even with a national mobilisation, they could only muster around 30 supporters! The National Front, […]
By Sofia Wiking, Leicester West branch of the Socialist Party The latest protest against the proposed closure of Glenfield Congenital Heart Centre took place in Leicester on 8 July. A year after the threat was first raised, the campaign shows no sign of cooling down. Over 200 people turned up to show their support and […]
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