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TUSC Candidate Promises to Put the Needs of Workers Before Big Business
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) has announced their final parliamentary candidate, who will be standing in the Leicester West constituency. Heather Rawling has called for an alternative “budget for the working-class”, in the wake of the Chancellor’s budget of deepening cuts. “This Tory-Lib Dem Coalition has been a disaster for the 99%, whilst […]
TUSC Candidate Leads Debate
Last nights Leicester hustings was a revealing affair: the Tory’s didn’t bother to field a speaker, and UKIP’s parliamentary candidate, like many UKIP supporters, was unaware of his party’s policies. In fact UKIP’s speaker was the only panelist who chose to pass on the opportunity to answer a number of questions from the audience. The […]
International Women’s Day: Reclaim the Day
International Women’s Day (IWD) took place on 8 March. Christine Lagarde, head of the bosses’ International Monetary Fund (IMF), spoke on a ‘Women of the World’ platform. Women of the World has the Duchess of Cornwall as its president, and is based on women who represent the super-rich 1%. Not quite the world you and […]
TUSC Parliamentary Candidate Pledges Support for the NHS and for a £10-an-hour Living Wage
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) today announced its second local parliamentary candidate for the General Election. Andrew Walton, who has lived in Highfields for the last 20 years, will be standing in the Leicester South constituency. He will be working closely with the present city councillors who are part of Leicester independent Councillors […]
Demanding Support For a ‘People’s Budget’
Members of unions Unite, Unison, PCS and RMT watched from the gallery on 25 February as Leicester City Council voted on its annual budget. Since 2011 over £85 million has been cut from local services in Leicester. Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby’s latest cuts budget was passed by the overwhelmingly Labour council. The city council’s Unison branch has publicly […]
Cllr Barbara Potter Proposes No-Cuts Amendment to Labour Council
Speech given by Cllr Barbara Potter on February 25, 2015 to the Labour City Council’s budget-setting meeting in support of Leicester Independent Councillors Against Cuts’ (LICAC) proposed no-cuts budget amendment. All the Labour councillors present voted to reject LICAC’s no-cuts amendment, and to accept a totally unnecessary cuts budget that will see £50+ million cut […]
Rebel Councillors Say Council Cuts Aren’t Necessary
Government attacks to local Council funding are having a disastrous effect on the people of Leicester. With £85 million having already been cut from the city’s finances over the past four years, two Councillors in Leicester aim to reverse this damaging trend. They say that the Council must stand its ground and refuse to implement […]
Leicester TUSC Street Ballot: 100% Against Cuts
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 […]
Ending Slavery in Leicester
Yesterday the Leicester Mercury reported that “A new study has found the majority of the people employed in the city’s garment sector earn less than half the legal hourly rate, which is £6.50 for those aged 21 or over.” This shocking local study on the prevalence of modern-day slavery in Leicester was produced with the […]
How the Super-Rich Get Away With It
“Tax avoidance – everyone does it.” That is according to multimillionaire, former hedge fund manager and Tory donor, Lord Fink. While his claim certainly isn’t true for the majority of us, amongst the circles that Lord Fink mixes in, it is par for the course. For the wealthiest in society there are loopholes and quirks […]
