Leicester Socialist Party and Socialist Students came out in force for today’s People’s Assembly demonstration in London today. The 150,000 strong march was domninated by calls for David Cameron’s resignation, though the placards made clear that the demonstrators wanted nothing short of an end to austerity, whoever happens to be doling it out.
Junior doctors in the BMA (British Medical Association) have been out on strike again today (and yesterday) continuing their magnificent battle against imposed, worsened contracts. This time they are again providing emergency care, but on 26 and 27 April they will escalate their action to a full strike. In an interview on BBC Radio Leicester […]
Leicester Socialist Students Society hosted a public meeting on Monday 8th February to discuss ongoing government attacks on emergency service workers, ahead of Wednesday’s planned strike action by the British Medical Association (BMA). Guest speakers included Jeanna Strutinsky-Mason, a registrar in palliative medicine and a junior doctor at Leicester’s hospitals for the last seven years, […]
Yesterday evening saw the fourth protest in Leicester since the commons voted in favour of further bloodshed in the Middle East. The action came off the back of a well-attended public meeting last Tuesday where Leicester Against War activists sat down to discuss the best way to build the anti-war movement, both locally and across […]
The bombing in Syria has begun. Across Britain, millions of people have been sickened by the rush to war. Lots of us are especially angry at Labour MPs who, against the wishes of their leader Jeremy Corbyn, spoke in favour of dropping bombs. This military action will lead to the deaths of many innocent men, […]
VOTE UPDATE: Jon Ashworth voted to oppose bombing, while Keith Vaz and Liz Kendall voted in favouring of bombing Syria. David Cameron’s attempt to rush through a vote to start bombing Syria was met with significant opposition from Leicester’s diverse communities today, when, at spectacularly short notice, over 200 people took to the street to […]
On November 25, protestors took to the streets to “raise awareness and show solidarity with victims of sexual violence.” The event was attended by, amongst others, members of Leicester Young Feminists, the Fawcett Society, the Women’s Equality Party, and Leicester Socialist Students, although members of the community turned out in support. Before the march got […]
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