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 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 […]
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 […]
By making meetings more accessible, and considering the needs of comrades, we have a new sense of collectivism and vitality.
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