David Cameron commented on the recent British floods by saying that “he thought they were probably due to global warming”. While a single incidence of flooding is not in itself evidence of climate change, extreme weather events are becoming more and more common – the flooding in the UK has been linked to a cold […]
My local hospital, University Hospitals Leicester, has had to apply for financial support from the government, after it has forecast going into the red this year by £40 million. Tragically, it is planning to cut £45 million in a “cost improvement plan” in 2014. This will only mean the loss of more staff, and further […]
By Heather Rawling Life member NUT Young teachers proved Beth Davis, NUT president wrong when they took strike action and demonstrated to defend education and teachers pay and condition. At a Leicester City NUT meeting she said young teachers weren’t interested in striking to defend pensions. Yet in a rousing speech at the demo rally, […]
If you want to see what Britain will be like in a few years’ time, if the trend of the Con-Dem’s planned spending cuts, continued wholesale privatisation of our NHS and further erosion of our living standards is not overthrown by mass strike action on the part of the labour movement, then look at Greece. […]
Leicester City Council are currently “consulting” on how to cut a third of the budget of homelessness services for the city over the next two years. This will involve the closure of homeless shelters, like the Dawn Centre (one proposal is for it to be turned into an ‘assessment centre’, whatever that means), Upper Tichbourne St and […]
Over a year ago an Islamic charity, As-Salaam, tried to buy a disused Scout Hut on Thurnby Lodge Estate in Leicester, intending to use it as a prayer room and community resource, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It was initially told by the council, who own the land, that it had succeeded in the tendering […]
If you look at one of our local ambulances, you see the words “Arriva, in partnership with the NHS”. You might be mistaken for thinking that, out of a sense of community responsibility, the bus company has lent the NHS some vehicles for use. In fact, Arriva have bought out the East Midlands non-emergency ambulance […]
Press release Leicester Socialist Party is hosting a public meeting on Wednesday 2nd October at 7.30pm in The Red Tent, Pocklingtons Walk to discuss the attacks being made to the NHS. Workers from local hospitals will give first-hand accounts of the threats posed to services. The number of ambulance stations in the East Midlands is being reduced from […]
In the 1990s under Tony Blair, the Labour Party abandoned even the pretense of socialist ideals by getting rid of the ‘socialist’ Clause IV. Internal democracy within Labour has also been dispensed with completely (although it had been under attack from Kinnock, with the witch-hunt of Militant). Labour are now as much a party of the rich […]
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