Recent Articles
Homeless Not Worthless
Article written by Tessa Warrington. The three-night sleep-out outlined in this article is ongoing and campaigners are still camped on the doorstep of the Town Hall (May 1). Please do go and along and show your support! Michael is homeless. I’m talking to him at the three night sleep-out organised by the homeless action group […]
BAD LORD, Welfare Scrounger!
Emblazoned on the front-page of today’s Leicester Mercury is the somewhat inspiring headline “GOOD LORD! Next boss Lord Wolfson is due a £2.4m bonus — but hands it all to his employees.” Tory peer Simon Wolfson, we are told, is pleased to reward his staff for helping the Enderby business become a multi-billion-pound success — […]
Thatcher and the NHS
When a vicious ruling-class warrior dies, the working class rejoice. But sadly Margaret Thatcher’s vile capitalist legacy lives on; now within even the body politic of the Labour Party, which like the Tories has worked hard to dismantle the NHS. Part of Thatcher’s legacy has recently come to fruition here in Leicester, which recently saw […]
Striking With BBC Radio Leicester
Today on a freezing picket line in Leicester, BBC workers came out on strike to oppose “compulsory redundancies, excessive workloads and bullying and harassment within the corporation.” With union membership growing as a result of recent strike action, members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and BECTU, the UK’s media and entertainment trade union, […]
Sleep-outs and Deadly Council Budgets
Here in Leicester Mothers Day descended upon us with sub-zero temperatures and a dusting of snow. For those who can afford to heat their homes such biting weather can be kept at bay, but for increasing numbers of people this is simply not possible. Rent rises combined with the incoming brutal bedroom tax, heaped on […]
Protesters Lobby Leicester City Council against cuts
On Wednesday 20 February, 200 homeless people, trade unionists and campaigners lobbied Leicester’s Labour council as they went in to vote for cuts. The anger of people there was reflected in the fact that just before the council meeting many of the protesters went into the Town Hall past the security and occupied the lobby. […]
The Violence of Labour’s 2012 Homeless Review
All facts and quotes cited in this article have been obtained from the Leicester City Council’s September 2012 Homelessness Review. A longer more detailed version of this article can be found here. The latest Homelessness Review is a sprawling 123 page document which masks the brutal cuts that Labour Councillors are in the process of […]
Homeless protest in Leicester
A protest by homeless people took place in Leicester on Saturday 2nd February, supported by the Socialist Party and others. The Labour council is planning £2.2 million worth of cuts to the homeless service which could lead to 200 hostel beds being lost. Other vital services to the homeless will also be cut. Homeless people […]
Defend homeless services in Leicester!
Leicester City Council are currently “consulting” on how to cut a third of the budget of homelessness services for the city over the next two years. This will involve the closure of homeless shelters, like the Dawn Centre (one proposal is for it to be turned into an ‘assessment centre’, whatever that means), Upper Tichbourne St and […]
No to racism. Fight against cuts in Leicester.
Over a year ago an Islamic charity, As-Salaam, tried to buy a disused Scout Hut on Thurnby Lodge Estate in Leicester, intending to use it as a prayer room and community resource, for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. It was initially told by the council, who own the land, that it had succeeded in the tendering […]
