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Save Children’s Heart Units
“My daughter wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the heart unit at Glenfield Hospital”. This was one of the comments made on Leicester Socialist Party stall campaigning against the closure of the local children’s heart unit. The government want to cut the number of specialist heart units in the country down from 11 to […]
Launch of East Midlands Disabled People Against Cuts
Post written by Lucy Stokes On 30th June 2012 Disabled People Against the Cuts (DPAC) launched East Midlands Disabled People Against Cuts, with people from Nottingham, Northampton, Leicester and Market Harborough attending the meeting. The main speakers were Linda Burnip and Debbie Jolly, who cofounded DPAC. We talked about what activities to do in the […]
Join Remploy Strike Action in Leicester This Thursday
With the breathtaking announcement of the government’s plans to close or sell-off the 54 factories that provide employment for disabled workers, on the 19th and 26th of July disabled workers across the country will be taking strike action (from 6am onwards) to oppose the coalition’s brutal attacks on their livelihoods. Please join the Socialist Party […]
2 Sisters’ Rampage For Profit
In their relentless search for profits the most natural way that Britain’s largest food manufacturers bolster their bank balances is by viciously attacking the pay and conditions of their employees, and of course by sacking staff. At present, managements’ excuse for such aggression is the so-called financial crisis. Little mention is made of the fact […]
M&S: Doing The Right Thing?
Tory “human rights” advocate Joanna Lumley presently serves as M&S’s high profile ambassador for PlanA, which is the name for their latest highly publicised ethical trading initiative. Yet given the ongoing attacks on the pay and conditions of the employees of M&S’s major suppliers here in Leicester – that is, at the RF Brookes factory […]
Factory Workers Oppose 2 Sisters Food Group in Carlisle
Guest post by Brent Kennedy (Socialist Party, Carlisle branch) Why make a lot of profit out of your workers when you can make a fortune out of them? That’s the greedy attitude of 2 Sisters Food Group towards their workers at Cavaghan & Gray in Carlisle. The company has increased its profits by a third, […]
Privatising Life: Veolia’s Anti-human Mission
Veolia is a huge multinational corporation, employing in excess of 330,000 people worldwide. Like all capitalist enterprises, Veolia, in its bloodsucking pursuit of profits, is engaged in a perpetual struggle to force down its most vulnerable employees wages and conditions. This improves profit margins, further increases the gap between the richest and poorest in society, […]
TUSC selects candidate in Lincoln East by-election
Lincoln Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition supporters have selected Nick Parker as the candidate for the Lincoln East by-election. The vacancy has arisen as a result of the national scandal which broke out after it was revealed that the sitting Tory councillor, Reverend Sara Cliff, had attended 19 meetings in the course of over 3 […]
Dumping on Workers: SOVA’s (Ineffectual) Soma
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there’s always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World. Humans like to help one […]
Latest on RF Brookes
RF Brookes workers in Leicester, members of BFAWU, the bakery workers union, have been taking discontinuous strike action in recent weeks against a vicious management who had announced 190 redundancies. At the same time, the bosses are reneging on the previously agreed redundancy package. Some workers, if they lose their jobs, also stand to lose […]
