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Dispute at Uplands Junior School
By Heather Rawling retired NUT member Events have moved rapidly since teachers at Uplands Junior School in Leicester staged their second one day strike. The head, Dr Luckcock and Governors had been so determined to keep the school open that staff were seriously concerned for the quality of education and health and safety of the […]
NUT Members Strike to Defend Teaching Assistant Posts
Written by Heather Rawling retired NUT member Uplands Picket Line this Morning “Things are getting serious” a NUT member told me on the picket line at Uplands Junior School in Leicester. In a second marvelous show of solidarity, teachers at an inner city school have taken another day’s strike action to defend children’s education and […]
Leicester Supports Protestors in Turkey
On Saturday Leicester Socialist Party members joined forces with local people protesting against the violent actions of Turkish police and the refusal of Prime Minister, Tayyip Erdogan, to listen to the demonstrators. We are now proud to call ourselves “capulcular”, a word originally used by Erdogan, with the literal meaning of “rioter” or “riffraff”, but […]
Rolling Strike Action
During the PCS rolling strike action, which took place in the East Midlands on June 5th, Steve Score from the Socialist Party spoke to Peter Tinley (rep, PCS HMRC Leicester) who explained: “We are out today, not only because of the cuts to terms and conditions and jobs and pensions. “But it is also to […]
On Strike at Uplands School to Defend Education
Teachers Strike to Defend Children’s Education and Save Teaching Assistant Jobs Heather Rawling retired NUT member In a marvellous show of solidarity, teachers at an inner city school have taken strike action to defend children’s education and the jobs of eight teaching assistants. A united picket line demonstrated the determination of teachers to win their […]
Leicester in the National News
Heather Rawling, “Letter: Braunstone, Leicester,” The Socialist, May 8, 2013. Tessa Warrington, “TUSC builds support in Leicester byelection,” The Socialist, May 15, 2013.
Thoughts on the local election results and Abbey Ward by-election
If you want to see what Britain will be like in a few years’ time, if the trend of the Con-Dem’s planned spending cuts, continued wholesale privatisation of our NHS and further erosion of our living standards is not overthrown by mass strike action on the part of the labour movement, then look at Greece. […]
Autism Not an Illness
In his article ‘Hands off our homes’ in issue 762 of The Socialist Ronnie Job writes about autism being an illness. As an autistic person, I think autism should be seen as a neurological condition, not an illness. I’m going to the Socialist Party’s disabled members’ meeting in Birmingham on 18 May, one of whose […]
May Day By-election Speech
On May 1, TUSC electoral candidate for the Abbey Ward by-election, Tessa Warrington, gave the following public speech at the Stocking Farm Community Centre. I find it fitting that on International Workers’ Day we are meeting here to discuss the brutal attacks this feckless government is carrying out on working people in the form of […]
Leicester’s Milky Way
Nine year old school girl Hannah Brier, a friend of the Socialist Party in Leicester, was on the stall for her second time (with Kerry Feetham) on Saturday 20th April. Whilst discussing Thatcher’s legacy, Hannah came up with a “twist” on ‘Thatcher, Thatcher the milk snatcher’ and thought up the idea of giving out free […]
