By Heather Rawling (a report back on Thursday’s Leicestershire Against the Cuts meeting) Food banks are one of the biggest growing areas in the voluntary sector in Leicester. These are a direct result of the policies of the Com-Dem Government and the failure of Leicester City Labour Council to stand up and defend the services and […]
By Heather Rawling — Leicester National Union of Teachers (personal capacity) My heart sang when I saw and heard them. Children and young people, marching and singing and chanting and banging drums. They were making their grand entrance onto the political stage and would not be ignored. Protesting about Leicester City Council’s plans to drastically […]
On Saturday Leicester Socialist Party members joined forces with local people protesting against the violent actions of Turkish police and the refusal of Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, to listen to the demonstrators. We are now proud to call ourselves “capulcular”, a word originally used by Erdogan, with the literal meaning of “rioter” or “riffraff”, but […]
I wasn’t sure what to expect as I sat in a room full of women at the Socialist Party’s East Midlands Regional Women’s meeting. It was being held in Leicester, my home branch, on the first Saturday of December and I was there more out of solidarity with my fellow branch members than any pressing […]
Today eight recently sacked Remploy workers and union reps occupied the company’s head office in Leicester in a bid to force a recalcitrant management to the table to discuss the ongoing attacks on disabled workers. After having no joy talking on the phone to Remploy executive director of finance Nigel Hopkins, the occupiers finally succeeded […]
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