“If we fight, we can win!” is the title of our just-published full-colour pamphlet (July 2018), which provides detailed analyses of two successful NHS campaigns. Covering 30 pages, you can read about how the Glenfield Heart Unit was saved and how a neurological ward at Mansfield Community Hospital was also recently saved from Tory cuts. […]
An estimated 250,000 people joined a demonstration in London yesterday to save the NHS, making it the largest of its kind in history. And the Save Glenfield campaigners were there in force! More than 100 activists from Leicester, including many involved with the Save Glenfield Heart Centre group, attended the demonstration – supported by PCS […]
This following article was first published on the back page of the Socialist Party newspaper on 8th February. The NHS is in crisis. Hospitals cancelled a record number of urgent operations last year, mainly because of bed shortages. One in six A&E departments faces closure or downgrading because of NHS cuts. So you would think […]
During the last round of the Junior Doctors strike action, I was proud to be able to stand on the picket outside Leicester Royal Infirmary in the rain. This time, however I couldn’t make it, but I was glad to hear that their ranks are swelling by the day, from a brilliant display of some […]
Following a successful rally in support of Junior Doctors and the future of the NHS, Leicestershire Against the Cuts held a well-attended public meeting on Monday night to discuss how we can build linkages between unions and community groups in defence of all public services. With the government refusing to talk to Junior Doctors and […]
Leicester Socialist Party and Socialist Students came out in force for today’s People’s Assembly demonstration in London today. The 150,000 strong march was domninated by calls for David Cameron’s resignation, though the placards made clear that the demonstrators wanted nothing short of an end to austerity, whoever happens to be doling it out.
Our NHS is under attack like never before, and we must act now to save it. As a worker in the NHS and a UNISON member, I chaired a protest organised by Leicestershire Against The Cuts last Saturday. It brought together campaigners from groups such as TUSC, the Socialist Party, the Green Party, Momentum, and […]
Junior doctors in the BMA (British Medical Association) have been out on strike again today (and yesterday) continuing their magnificent battle against imposed, worsened contracts. This time they are again providing emergency care, but on 26 and 27 April they will escalate their action to a full strike. In an interview on BBC Radio Leicester […]
The junior doctors and their union the BMA are in the front line of attacks on the NHS. After two one-day strikes in January and February, the latest stage of their campaign of industrial action was a 48-hour strike on 9-10 March. It will continue with two further 48-hour stoppages in April (see “Junior doctors’ […]
Leicester Socialist Students Society hosted a public meeting on Monday 8th February to discuss ongoing government attacks on emergency service workers, ahead of Wednesday’s planned strike action by the British Medical Association (BMA). Guest speakers included Jeanna Strutinsky-Mason, a registrar in palliative medicine and a junior doctor at Leicester’s hospitals for the last seven years, […]
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