With the Turkish elections fast approaching on June 7, Dave Nellist, the national Chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) sends the following message in solidarity with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (Halkların Demokratik Partisi – HDP): Across the world the political representatives of the rich multinational companies and bankers have attempted to force […]
“They came after cleaners with very small salaries and families, forgetting we are women, we are mothers, and if you mess with us we can become like the harpies in the ancient Greek legends…. I never thought that a rubber cleaning glove could become such a symbol of struggle, but it has.” These are the […]
The Azure card is given to asylum seekers who are under Section 4, awaiting a result on their claim for asylum. The card limits where you can go to for food and other essentials and asylum seekers live on a measly £36.62 a week. They do not have access to other benefits and are not […]
Following massive protests in London, more than hundred people gathered in Leicester city centre earlier this afternoon to call for an end to imperialist violence. Organized by the local Kurdish community, today’s rally aimed to call attention to the nightmare being inflicted upon Syrian Kurds, most particularly in the town of Kobane, which for some […]
Following the death of Berkin Elvan, a young Turkish boy who was shot by the police last summer and had been in a coma ever since, a protest took place in the centre of Leicester yesterday as a display of solidarity with the people of Turkey. Disgustingly the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to […]
On Saturday Leicester Socialist Party members joined forces with local people protesting against the violent actions of Turkish police and the refusal of Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, to listen to the demonstrators. We are now proud to call ourselves “capulcular”, a word originally used by Erdogan, with the literal meaning of “rioter” or “riffraff”, but […]
Last week some 1,200 workers took four days of strike action at four of Argos’ key regional distribution sites. This was in opposition to Argos’ decision to end their final salary pension scheme. If management does not back down, more industrial action will certainly be forthcoming. Given the recalcitrant nature of such ruling class managers, […]
In South Africa the Lonmin struggle continues… with autopsy reports of the police-led massacre now conclusively demonstrating that “most of the people were fleeing from the police when they got killed.” If this was not bad enough, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) even initiated proceedings to use ‘common purpose’ Apartheid-era legislation to prosecute 270 of […]
Platinum mining reaps colossal profits for a few, which is derived from the systematic abuse of many others… the others being workers who live in make-shift shacks and daily risk their lives in the employ of a depraved ruling class which craves only precious minerals and broken backs. South African political elites, whether members of […]
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