Defending the NHS is not a choice, it is a necessity. That was the consensus at the demonstration held earlier today outside the Leicester Royal Infirmary. Defying the chilling wind and icy rain, around 150 people from across Leicestershire gathered together to demand a better future for all — whether that be NHS workers slaving […]
Steve Score, Chair of the Save Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre campaign Celebrations were taking place in Leicester city centre on the 30th November following an outstanding victory for the campaign to save congenital heart surgery at Glenfield Hospital. A mood of relief and of jubilation spread from campaigners to people across the region. We hope […]
If anyone could be described a modern-day robber baron it would be Amazon founder Jeff Bezos whose personal “wealth shot into newfound stratospheres” this week to make him the world’s newest and only $100bn billionaire. The secret to Bezos’ wealth is simple: instead of treating his workers as fellow humans he considers them to be […]
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 […]
“Huge issues are facing the trade union movement today,” explained Linda Taaffe earlier today in Birmingham in her role as the Secretary of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN); at a gathering of activist trade unionists coming together in a city playing host to an important industrial faceoff between their bin workers and their Labour-run […]
This article, originally published last year, was written by Leicester Socialist Party member Tessa Warrington and was first published in the national newspaper of the Socialist Party, but given the ongoing campaign being waged by the Baker’s Union to organise workers in Leicestershire (at Amazon’s new site in Ellistown, Coalville) it is now being republished […]
On Sunday 1st October, socialists from Leicester joined other anti-austerity, anti-racist and anti-war campaigners and trade unionists in a massive march through the centre of Manchester – as the Tory Party conference was assembling – under the demands: No more austerity Scrap the pay cap For decent health, homes, jobs and education
Leicester Socialist Party and the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) attended an emergency branch meeting today for workers from Tulip, a food processing plant in Coalville. The members present voted unanimously to ballot for industrial action due to a series of abuses by their employers. This was after talks between Tulip and the Bakers’ Union […]
Workers at two McDonald’s restaurants based in South East London and Cambridge undertook a successful strike action on 4 September. This strike represents the first action of its kind within the British branches of the fast-food chain. Following similar protests that have taken place last year, on Monday around thirty people joined the Bakers Union […]
Workers at two McDonald’s restaurants in South East London and Cambridge are taking strike action on Monday 4 September. This strike represents the first action of its kind within the British branches of the fast-food chain. The date has been called to coincide with Labor Day in the US, where workers in hundreds of cities […]
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