“We’ll use cash reserves to set a no cuts budget” was the Leicester Mercury headline when they reported our manifesto for the Leicester Mayoral and city council elections. The article went on to say that using reserves was “necessary in order to build a campaign to get the money from the Government we need for […]
Leicester is a city dominated by Labour, with a Lib-Dem/Tory opposition group composed of just two councillors. However, like all other Labour Council’s up and down the country our city has been busy passing on Tory cuts with gusto (and crocodile tears). In the latest phase of cuts (“savings”) the axe is being swung down […]
More than one thousand people attended a march in Leicester today in opposition to the proposed closure of Glenfield Children’s Heart Unit. NHS England claim that the closure of Glenfield has nothing to do with budget cuts, but is about “standards and quality of service”. This is total rubbish. The Tories are planning to cut […]
Although there is much confusion about the EU and its relationship to workers’ rights, there are a multitude of excellent reasons why trade unionists oppose the EU. Alongside the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) the Bakers Union is one of the few fighting unions that is campaigning for a socialist exit […]
This is taken from the National Shop Stewards Network site – it is vitally important that this is spread as widely as possible in a short time, so please feel free to circulate to anyone you feel may be supportive. After the magnificent strikes and demonstrations up and down the country on November 30th, we […]
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