Heather Rawling, Socialist Party women’s committee Alabama legislators have passed a bill that makes it a felony for a doctor to perform or attempt to perform an abortion. They even denied an amendment allowing exemptions for cases of rape and incest. The bill’s sponsor Terri Collins – a Republican in the Alabama House of Representatives […]
It’s a daily struggle to make ends meet for working-class people in Leicester, made worse by the cuts that the Labour council is making. Yet at a recent mayoral hustings meeting, Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby (a ‘left’ in the 1970s), had the audacity to criticise the record of Liverpool’s socialist Labour council in the 1980s […]
After their successful one-day strike on 6 February, staff from both sites at WQE college in Leicester struck again on 13-14 February. The workers are striking to protect pay and conditions and achieve parity between both sites after a recent merger. Picketing is not easy, with several entrances to cover, but there were plenty of […]
Congratulations to Women’s Lives Matter for organising a brilliant first national meeting. People from around the UK attended and brought with them a wealth of experience, ideas and proposals. Sinead Daly, CEO of Dundee and Angus Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, opened the meeting by saying that we shouldn’t have to have this discussion. […]
A spirited and determined ‘Reclaim the Night’ march, organised by and for women, wound its way through the Saturday night revelry of Nottingham city centre on 18 November. The crowds were mostly supportive and even the buses and other traffic didn’t seem too bothered by their unexpected delay. The struggle against misogyny and violence against […]
An NHS ‘uprising’ took place in Grantham, Lincolnshire, on Saturday 14 October! A determined 800-strong demonstration wound its way through the town. People are fighting against the night time closure of Grantham A&E and the systematic downgrading of services in their local hospital. But this was more than just about Grantham A&E. Campaigners in Louth […]
The junior doctors and their union the BMA are in the front line of attacks on the NHS. After two one-day strikes in January and February, the latest stage of their campaign of industrial action was a 48-hour strike on 9-10 March. It will continue with two further 48-hour stoppages in April (see “Junior doctors’ […]
It’s hard to believe that in the 1990s, articles were appearing asking: “Is the future female?” and “Are we witnessing a genderquake?” Leading bourgeois feminists like Naomi Wolf in her book Fire with Fire argued: “Men are seeing their empire crumble. Their world is indeed dying. We must understand that we are in the final […]
A protest was organised by Leicestershire FBU at the county fire authority HQ in opposition to devastating cuts announced. Unbelievably they propose closing Leicester Central Fire Station, responsible for around 1,300 to 1,600 call-outs in the city every year and Kibworth Fire Station, covering a wide rural location. The money for frontline jobs and services […]
“Dare we hope” aptly summed up the mood of the 300-strong meeting in Leicester (31st July) to hear Jeremy Corbyn’s socialist leadership campaign message. I was speaking with Mary Higgins, a left-wing Labour Party member of old at the biggest gathering of socialists that Leicester has seen in a while. Spirits were lifted as people […]
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