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 […]
By John Merrell The recent Ofsted report for Leicester schools stated three were “inadequate”: two run by the local authority, the third an academy. The two council schools are to become academies, a move unopposed by the Labour city council. The local Labour MP is Jon Ashworth, a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet. Seven […]
I went down to the picket line at one of the entrances to Leicester QE college. National Union of Teachers members were on strike against cuts by the government to sixth form college funding. The strike went ahead after a government attempt to stop it with legal action failed. As one supporter from the local […]
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, […]
By Alex Morgan Over 300 workers for ‘food giant’ Samworth Brothers packed a meeting in Leicester on Friday night to hear food workers’ union BFAWU’s response to recent threats to their pay. The company is one of the largest employers in the city, with some 5,000 workers across nine sites. Nationwide anger felt at the […]
Taxi drivers in Leicester are organised – in the RMT – and furious at the dictatorial attitude of the Labour city mayor. They have already held a number of protests and ‘go slows’ that have gridlocked the city centre during rush hours. At a protest meeting on 4 February 100 taxi drivers and supporters met […]
Leicester is facing some of the most severe cuts to the fire service in the country. You might be forgiven for thinking that we live under a Tory council, such is the scale of attacks on services in the city. However, the Labour mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, who sits alongside a Tory as vice-chair of […]
Campaigners are protesting in Leicester this weekend to demand an end to the political attacks on the funding of Leicestershire’s fire services. The event intends to send a clear message to all politicians that they should not play with fire when it comes to our lives. Protestors armed with banners and placards will be meeting […]
A protest was organised by Leicestershire FBU at the county fire authority HQ in opposition to devastating cuts announced. Unbelievably they propose closing Leicester Central Fire Station, responsible for around 1,300 to 1,600 call-outs in the city every year and Kibworth Fire Station, covering a wide rural location. The money for frontline jobs and services […]
Tory hatchet man and Minister for ‘Justice’ Michael Gove, last seen terrorising the education system, is now at the centre of the looming privatisation of court fine collection. Aggressive American outsourcing giant Concentrix is currently the only bidder for the £675m contract, work currently undertaken in-house by the National Compliance Enforcement Service (NCES). The contract […]
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