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Workers’ Memorial Day
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Oppose government attacks on benefit claimants.
Lucy Stokes will be speaking on cuts to benefits at our next Leicester Socialist Party meeting, which is at 7pm, in The Globe pub (upstairs) Silver St, Tuesday April 27th. Benefit claimants have had to go through harsh medical assessments and a sea of red tape, courtesy of ATOS, the company which has administered the government’s […]
Vote Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) is standing against all cuts to public services. Its candidates are ordinary working people and trade unionists. We stand for the millions, not the millionaires. Train driver and Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union president, Alex Gordon, appeals to Londoners to vote for TUSC in the forthcoming Greater […]
Building for student walkouts on the 14th March in Leicester
by Rebecca Christiansen, Leicester Socialist Students Student union executives at both the University of Leicester and De Montfort University (DMU) are refusing to support the NUS-called walkout. DMU has gladly said that all lectures are off when the Queen visits on 8 March but the student union is afraid that students “will miss too […]
Anti-EDL protests on Saturday
Hundreds of local people turned out to oppose the racist English Defence League (EDL) in Leicester on 4 February. Unfortunately, a massive Police operation involving 2,200 officers on duty, horses, dogs and riot vans allowed around 400 EDL thugs to march through the city centre. It is likely to top the £850,000 cost of having […]
Oppose the EDL’s racism in Leicester on the 4th February 2012
This article was published in 2012 The ‘English Defence League’ (EDL) is threatening to visit Leicester on Saturday February 4th. The last time they came, in October 2010, they attacked shoppers and smashed city centre shops. They also broke away from Police control and attempted to march on Highfields, an area with a large Muslim […]
Fight until we win!
This is taken from the National Shop Stewards Network site – it is vitally important that this is spread as widely as possible in a short time, so please feel free to circulate to anyone you feel may be supportive. After the magnificent strikes and demonstrations up and down the country on November 30th, we […]
