With just 5 days until polling begins, Leicester Socialist Party hosted a public meeting earlier this afternoon to spell out our plan to fight all cuts if we are elected to city council. The meeting was wide-ranging, covering topics from cuts to local services, addressing the mental health crisis in our schools, the NHS, and […]
Around 80 people attended a politically charged Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) public meeting last Saturday to discuss the planned reorganisation of Leicester’s hospitals. Speaking at the meeting was Sally Ruane, a local health policy academic and NHS campaigner, and Mark Wightman, the Director of Communications and Strategy for the local NHS Trust. But the […]
On Wednesday February 20, Leicester’s Labour City Council once again voted through a series of further massive cuts to local spending. In opposition to this appalling behaviour, the Leicester Socialist Party helped organise a lobby of the budget-setting meeting, where we called upon our Labour Council to launch a fight back against all cuts. For […]
Around 90 people gathered for a public meeting on Saturday called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) to discuss controversial local plans to remove intensive care beds from Leicester General Hospital without a consultation. Campaigners believe that the removal of the beds will be the first step toward downgrading the General Hospital as an acute […]
Reporting from across the pond, the liberal New York Times published a lengthy article on 28 May on the horrors the Tories have inflicted on working and middle class people in Britain. “After eight years of budget cutting,” it begins, “Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, […]
Speaking at today’s May Day Rally in Leicester, Tom Barker finished his speech by saying: “Building upon the success of the Glenfield campaign, we have now set up a second campaign called Save Our NHS Leicestershire. We call upon the trade union movement in Leicestershire and Rutland to join our campaign and help roll back […]
The NHS winter crisis has become an established part of the national calendar. But while last year the dominant image was that of patients left in trolleys in corridors, this year people are not even getting into the hospitals. Anyone switching on the news over Christmas would have seen images of ambulances queuing outside […]
A letter published in today’s issue of the Leicester Mercury by Tom Barker Some important insights were made by Fraser Nelson, former editor of The Spectator magazine and apparently one of the more far-sighted Tories, in Thursday’s Telegraph, where he described how the Tories have lost control of British politics. One of the critical mistakes […]
By Lindsey Morgan (translated from English to Polish by Artur Wilk) Oddział Leicester Partii Socjalistycznej oraz NSSN były obecne na niedzielnym, kryzysowym spotkaniu oddziału z pracownikami z Tulip, zakładzie przetwórstwa żywności w Coalville. Obecni pracownicy zagłosowali jednogłośnie za rozpoczęciem procedury akcji protestacyjnej. Miało to miejsce po załamaniu negocjacji pomiędzy Tulip a Związkiem Piekarzy (BFAWU). Pracownicy […]
When it was announced that the racist National Front planned to descend on the small market town of Grantham, Lincolnshire, last Saturday, counter-demonstrators were given just one-day notice to organise. Yet in spite this, the far-right group were massively out-numbered. Even with a national mobilisation, they could only muster around 30 supporters! The National Front, […]
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