For the last two years I’ve been working as an apprentice through the training provider Aspire Achieve Advance or 3aaa. This all changed when the Education and Skills Funding Agency terminated all of its contracts with the company resulting in its collapse. There is now a police investigation into fraud at 3aaa and 4,500 apprentices […]
Unite Community showed their versatility tonight by making what might otherwise be a staid annual general meeting into an lively discussion focusing on the issues that the branch should take up in the coming months. Set up about two years ago, the local Leicester branch has more than doubled their membership in the past six […]
By a Resident of Leicester A Man of Humble Beginnings charts the life of Leicester socialist, Amos Sherriff. Although originally written for four actors, it received its premiere as a one man show performed by its author, Tony Church, with recorded voices and photographs at the Upstairs at the Western theatre in the city on […]
If you want to see what Britain will be like in a few years’ time, if the trend of the Con-Dem’s planned spending cuts, continued wholesale privatisation of our NHS and further erosion of our living standards is not overthrown by mass strike action on the part of the labour movement, then look at Greece. […]
Leicester City Council are currently “consulting” on how to cut a third of the budget of homelessness services for the city over the next two years. This will involve the closure of homeless shelters, like the Dawn Centre (one proposal is for it to be turned into an ‘assessment centre’, whatever that means), Upper Tichbourne St and […]
Iain Duncan Smith’s hopes for a discreet, unpublicised tour around the Jobcentre Plus on Wellington Street and the Pensions Centre on Yeoman Street were dashed on Friday 15th June as Leicester Youth Fight for Jobs learned of his visit and arranged a special greeting party.
Leicester Socialist Party is proud to be supporting the Jarrow marchers on their 300-mile trek from the North East to London, to highlight that, with 1,000,000 young people unemployed, tuition fees trebling and EMA axed, many of Britain’s young people face a future on the dole queue. It shows the disastrous nature of the capitalist […]
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