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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. […]
Tory Fake News & Private Failure…
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 […]
Leicester College Workers Refuse to Accept Cut in Terms and Conditions
By Franklin O’Riordan, Leicester East Socialist Party “Management has attempted to appeal directly to staff rather than negotiating with elected workplace representatives. This has backfired. It has made more National Education Union (NEU) members all the more determined to succeed.” This is what Leicester NEU officer Ian Leaver told Socialist Party members when more than […]
How We Can Get Rid of the Tories
A speech to Leicester Socialist Party public meeting (2/2/19) The Socialist Party campaigned in the EU referendum to leave the EU. Our slogan was to “vote OUT the Tories”. Correctly, we predicted that a leave vote would cause a crisis for the ruling party of capitalism, and would undercut support for the far-right. We also […]
High Spirits at Leicester College UCU Strike
By Steve Score (reporting from Freemen’s Park campus picket line) Spirits were high on today’s frosty morning that striking FE teaching staff gathered outside Leicester College Freemen’s Park campus. The strike is over low pay as a result of what workers describe as sustained underfunding of Further Education. Many UCU (University and College Union) members in […]
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 […]
Duke’s Car Crash: One Law for Them and Another for Us
Just in case there was any doubt that it’s one law for them and another for us, Prince Philip cleared that up as he ploughed his tank-like Land Rover 4×4 into the path of a lowly Kia. He blamed his careless driving on being dazzled by the sun. “I’m such a fool,” he remarked to […]
Fire Service Cuts and the Need for Mandatory Reselection
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 […]
Linking LGBT+ Rights to the Fight for Socialism
The growing Socialist Party LGBT+ group held its first national meeting of the year on 6 January. Around 20 of members met in London to discuss how we can fight for LGBT+ rights and build a mass movement against oppression. The meeting started with a general discussion on perspectives in the era of capitalist crisis. […]
Women’s Lives Matter
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. […]
