Women’s Lives Matter meeting 23 people attended Leicester Socialist Party’s public meeting on ‘Women’s Lives Matter’ on 16 March. Socialist Party member Heather Rawling spoke about the impact of austerity on women’s services and the double oppression that working-class women face under capitalism. Steve Score, Leicester mayoral candidate for the Socialist Party, raised how we […]
On Wednesday February 20, Leicester’s Labour City Council once again voted through a series of further massive cuts to local spending. In opposition to this appalling behaviour, the Leicester Socialist Party helped organise a lobby of the budget-setting meeting, where we called upon our Labour Council to launch a fight back against all cuts. For […]
After their successful one-day strike on 6 February, staff from both sites at WQE college in Leicester struck again on 13-14 February. The workers are striking to protect pay and conditions and achieve parity between both sites after a recent merger. Picketing is not easy, with several entrances to cover, but there were plenty of […]
Leicester Socialist Party has announced it has selected Steve Score, local campaigner, to stand in May’s Mayoral elections. Steve chaired the successful Save Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre campaign and continues to be involved in local campaigning around defending the NHS. He has a long record in Leicester of fighting government and local cuts in services. […]
Tory fake news By Michael Barker, Leicester East Socialist Party Britain’s leading apologist for the government’s divisive ‘anti-terrorist’ Prevent strategy, Will Baldet, once again showed his contempt for democracy when he recently mangled the truth on Channel 4’s evening news programme. Mr Baldet chose to misrepresent the truth, in order to belittle the validity of […]
With the Tories intent on destroying local government, Blairite-run Councils up-and-down the country just wring their hands and claim that there is nothing they can do except carry through devastating cuts. Yet many lay members of the Labour Party disagree with this spineless non-response to austerity, and in recent months two Constituency Labour Party’s (Islwyn […]
We all know the story. Tories are cutting services in the name of austerity. Labour Councils are meekly carrying them out, claiming (incorrectly) that there is nothing they can do. But what is galling is that, three years on since Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, Leicester’s Labour council continues to justify government cut backs […]
By Leicester Socialist Party No one expects to die at work, no one should have to. But under capitalism the harsh reality is that private profit often outweighs worker safety. Tarsem Singh, an employee of 23 years for Nylacast Engineering Solutions, plastic engineers in Leicester, died in April 2016 after an industrial accident. He was […]
Since the inception of the Premier League – the money bags version of a football league – to choose to support a club outside the ‘top-six’ is to choose adversity gift-wrapped. That was certainly the experience of Leicester City supporters when Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought the club in 2010. Soon after, he bought back […]
With over 10,000 attendees including 3,000 people in the parade, Leicester Pride was the largest the city has seen. Although the atmosphere was definitely more in line with a party than a protest, people liked the Socialist Party’s message that we need socialist change to truly win liberation. Groups of more than five had to […]
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