Cuts

Socialists Still Fighting For a No-Cuts Budget in Leicester

Socialists Still Fighting For a No-Cuts Budget in Leicester

“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 […]

Posted in: Cuts, Elections, Leicester, TUC, Unison
‘Brexishambles’: we’re sick of it! Boot out the Tories – End Austerity

‘Brexishambles’: we’re sick of it! Boot out the Tories – End Austerity

Theresa May’s ‘Brexishambles’ keeps rolling on. And we’re sick of it! How many more extensions can she possibly request from Brussels? How many times can she present new versions of a dismal, anti-working-class, bosses’ Brexit deal for a parliamentary vote? Could the Tories be more split, splintered, weak and wobbly? How on earth are they […]

Posted in: Cuts, European Union
Leicester NHS Trust Forced to Confront the Brutal Reality of Health Cuts

Leicester NHS Trust Forced to Confront the Brutal Reality of Health Cuts

Around 80 people attended a politically charged Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) public meeting last Saturday to discuss the planned reorganisation of Leicester’s hospitals. Speaking at the meeting was Sally Ruane, a local health policy academic and NHS campaigner, and Mark Wightman, the Director of Communications and Strategy for the local NHS Trust. But the […]

Devastating 62% Cuts in Leicester: Vote for Socialist Mayor and Council Candidates

Devastating 62% Cuts in Leicester: Vote for Socialist Mayor and Council Candidates

By Steve Score, former chair Save Glenfield Children’s Heart Centre and Leicester Socialist Party mayoral candidate In Leicester, spending on all council services, excluding social care, has been slashed by no less than 62% in ten years. This has had a devastating effect. Cuts have particularly hit the most vulnerable. When homelessness has been rocketing, […]

Posted in: Cuts, Elections, Leicester
Socialists Candidate for Mayor Would Live on Average Wage

Socialists Candidate for Mayor Would Live on Average Wage

Steve Score, Socialist Party candidate in the city mayoral elections has pledged to only live on the wage of an average Leicester worker if elected. The city mayor takes home over £70,000 at the moment. The current basic allowance for every council member is £10,556 and the city mayor has a ‘special responsibility allowance’ on […]

Stop Cuts to Women’s Services in Leicester

Stop Cuts to Women’s Services in Leicester

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 […]

Posted in: Cuts, Leicester, Women
Demanding An End to All Council Cuts in Leicester

Demanding An End to All Council Cuts in Leicester

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 […]

Socialists to Challenge Peter Soulsby for Mayor

Socialists to Challenge Peter Soulsby for Mayor

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. […]

Universal Credit Out – Tories Out!

Universal Credit Out – Tories Out!

Universal Credit is a disaster for the working class. The difficult-by-design benefit replaces six separate benefits with a single payment, normally paid to a single payee. A recent report produced by the Citizen’s Advice Bureau showed that half of the people that are seeking help from them with Universal Credit claims are in rent arrears. […]

Posted in: Cuts, Disabled
Leicester’s Labour Council Continues to Implement Austerity: Why the Cuts Must be Fought

Leicester’s Labour Council Continues to Implement Austerity: Why the Cuts Must be Fought

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 […]