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5th December – Public meeting – Fight till we win!
Socialist Party public meeting – Leicester University, 7.30pm, Tuesday 5th December. (Venue TBC, but likely to be Ken Edwards Building). On Wednesday around 3 million public service workers went on strike – the biggest day of action since 1926. In Leicester around 5000 trade unionists marched in one of the biggest rallies in the city for decades. […]
Support striking public sector workers on November 30th
Anger at the government’s attacks on pensions and public sector cuts have led to trade unions voting for the largest co-ordinated strike action in Britain since the general strike of 1926. 3-4 million public sector workers will be striking. We are not going to work until we are 68, or put up with cuts to vital […]
Jarrow March – still fighting for jobs 75 years on
Leicester Socialist Party is proud to be supporting the Jarrow marchers on their 300-mile trek from the North East to London, to highlight that, with 1,000,000 young people unemployed, tuition fees trebling and EMA axed, many of Britain’s young people face a future on the dole queue. It shows the disastrous nature of the capitalist […]
Aftermath of riots: where do we go from here?
A Question Time style debate has been organised in Leicester to discuss the causes of the riots and what demands communities that are affected by cuts, job losses and police brutality and racism put forward. Please come along to this important event to put across your views and hear what the communities have to say. […]
Leicester Pride – The Beginnings
In 2000, the first Leicester Pride event (then called the Mardi Gras) was threatened by the far-right National Front and BNP. The organisers cancelled the event because of threats of violence. Yet a varied group of people, including Socialist Party members, other political activists and the LGBT community in Leicester, established a campaign “Unity Against […]
Riots in Leicester: Display of anger amongst young people
Yesterday afternoon in Leicester, shops closed early as police gathered on the streets in anticipation that the wave of anger shown across the country would arrive in the city. While a few groups of young people gathered around the clock tower, in Highfields the community centre held a meeting. They discussed how they should respond […]
More cuts to come in Leicester’s hospitals – a campaign needed to fight back!
Socialist Party public meeting Tuesday 13th September 7.30pm F-Bar, 95 WALNUT ST, LE2 7LA Further cuts to the NHS have been announced in addition to the UHL job losses and hike in car parking charges. The hospital is saying that this needs to be done because of a £8 million overspend. But where has this […]
After 30th June – all strike together!
On Thursday 30th June, strike action was taken by four trade unions: NUT (National Union of Teachers), ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers), UCU (University and College Union) and PCS (Public and Commercial Services). In Leicester, this meant the closing or ‘partial closing’ of the vast majority of schools, courts, jobcentres and tax offices. Best […]
We cannot work for nothing. Fully fund the NHS!
SOCIALIST PARTY PUBLIC MEETING TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER, 7:30PM, F BAR, 95 WALNUT ST, LE2 7LA The Chief Executive of UHL has threatened that staff will not be paid in August and September, if current spending rates continue at Leicester’s hospitals. Already, 200 staff have not been paid for overtime this month. Staff have been asked […]
