Matt Wrack, leader of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU), recently attacked ongoing Tory austerity which since 2010 has dismissed 9,000 fire and rescue service jobs in England, including almost 6,500 full-time firefighters. “Fire and rescue services in England are expected to do more with less, putting public safety at risk. Firefighters have been ensuring the […]
Congratulations to Women’s Lives Matter for organising a brilliant first national meeting. People from around the UK attended and brought with them a wealth of experience, ideas and proposals. Sinead Daly, CEO of Dundee and Angus Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, opened the meeting by saying that we shouldn’t have to have this discussion. […]
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 […]
Around 90 people gathered for a public meeting on Saturday called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) to discuss controversial local plans to remove intensive care beds from Leicester General Hospital without a consultation. Campaigners believe that the removal of the beds will be the first step toward downgrading the General Hospital as an acute […]
Like the NHS, our prison service is at breaking point. Ongoing funding cuts and forced privatisations are destroying this critical public utility, making life intolerably dangerous for both staff and prisoners. This morning, members of the Prison Officers Association (POA) union from across the country, including Leicester, took part in coordinated protests (not strikes, which […]
By Bethany Morgan Smith, school student, Leicester West Socialist Party At my school, students and teachers are desperate for resources. We barely have enough pens and glue sticks so we have to take turns to use three glue sticks that have already been overused. In history, I asked for a new exercise book because I […]
Reporting from across the pond, the liberal New York Times published a lengthy article on 28 May on the horrors the Tories have inflicted on working and middle class people in Britain. “After eight years of budget cutting,” it begins, “Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, […]
Speaking at today’s May Day Rally in Leicester, Tom Barker finished his speech by saying: “Building upon the success of the Glenfield campaign, we have now set up a second campaign called Save Our NHS Leicestershire. We call upon the trade union movement in Leicestershire and Rutland to join our campaign and help roll back […]
Yesterday, the Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) campaign launched in a standing-room-only Leicester Secular Hall, with the meeting brimming with energy to fight the Tories’ brutal NHS cuts. SONHSL will seek to build on the incredible success of the campaign to stop the closure of Glenfield Children’s Heart Unit, which mobilised thousands of people in […]
With the Tories stumbling in the wake of Theresa’s Mayhem, Labour-run Councils now have yet another opportunity to organise a campaign of mass resistance to further Tory cuts to local services. But it seems that the leaders of many such Councils are deliberately blocking attempts to resist austerity. This week Leicester’s Labour-run City Council announced, […]
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