Having been raised by lefty parents I felt strongly that I was ‘political’. I voted for the Greens in every election since I was 18. I even put a Green Party poster in my bedroom window. Nina Brown, Leeds Socialist Party Overhearing how my parents talked about Margaret Thatcher made me certain that Tories were…
POA members at HMP Leeds walked out under Health and Safety legislation over escalating violence in prisons on Friday 14th September. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party This was part of action by POA members across the country in response to increasing violence in prisons, with prison assaults up by 108% since 2010, assaults against prison…
Campaigners from local groups involved in Health Campaigns Together gathered outside Leeds Town Hall on Wednesday 22nd August to protest plans to remove 17 treatments from the NHS outside one of the consultation events on these proposals. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party These have been dubbed ‘unneccessary’ by NHS England, who wish to take away…
Around 50 people joined a midday march through Rothwell against plans to demolish around 70 ex-coal board homes on the Wordsworth and Sugar Hill estates in nearby Oulton. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Thursday 26th July saw the Save Our Homes LS26 campaign and their supporters, including the NUM and the local Labour councillor for…
Reports of Trump protests across Yorkshire including Leeds, where our members take part in the Young Socialists and helped organsie the protest on Friday 13th July. Young Socialists took part in and organise a number of protests across Yorkshire on Friday 13th July against the UK visit of Donald Trump, to challenge his regressive policies…
After it was reported by Labour MP, Harriet Harman, that services protecting women against domestic violence in Leeds have been cut by 59%, a public meeting was called to launch Women’s Lives Matter in Leeds. Members of Leeds Socialist Party have been actively supporting Women’s Live Matter campaign in Doncaster against the cuts to funding…
Campaigners had a big reason to be cheerful at the events marking 70th anniversary of the NHS in Leeds, as the Trust at Leeds Teaching Hospitals had announced that they “will not be transferring any staff into a Wholly-owned Subsidiary during the financial year to March 2019.” Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party This is now…
Events in Leeds over the last month will have shocked many – from the several hundred who marched through Leeds in early June demanding the release of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (also known as Tommy Robinson, the founder of the racist English Defence League (EDL)) from prison following his conviction for contempt of court, to the attacks…
Parents involved in the Disability Empowerment Action Links (DEAL) group have pushed the Leeds City Council into ‘pausing’ their plans to cut transport. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Instead of implementing these plans this September, the council will now delay them for a year, as well as guaranteeing all that will be using the service…
We want to stay ‘100% NHS’! That’s the message from workers at Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust who are currently balloting for strike action alongside 3 other West Yorkshire Trusts over plans to transfer them into a ‘Wholly-owned Subsidiary’ (WOS). Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Around 40 hospital staff and supporters took part in a protest…
