Leeds Socialist Party members attended the public meeting of the Leeds Trades Union Council (Leeds TUC) via Zoom on Wednesday 29th April. Over 40 trade union reps and activists from across the region came together under the banner of “Testing, PPE – Put our Safety First – Organise in your Workplace”. Michael Docherty, PCS delegate…
Overworked, underpaid, struggling to afford the basics – this is true of the situation facing many ‘key workers’ that the Covid-19 lockdown has so clearly demonstrated society is dependent on. This was also the situation facing many workers 130 years ago when the first May Day marches took place to celebrate International Workers’ Day. Iain…
Well over 100 strikers and supporters rallied at Leeds Uni on the fifth day of strike action. Both Leeds Trinity and Leeds University have been taking part in the Margaret round of strike action over the #FourFights on pay, inequality, workload and casualisation with Leeds Uni also been part of the USS pension scheme dispute…
NEU members at Notre Dame sixth form, along with 33 other sixth form colleges across the UK took further strike action in their ongoing dispute over funding for the sector and pay, with this being the 4th strike day at Notre Dame. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party The cuts in the sector have been substantial…
“If we want a society that doesn’t destroy our planet, then it is up to us, working-class people, to come together and fight for it. “All that this capitalist system does is put the interests of big business and their profits first. “We need real, socialist change, based on public ownership, democratic control and meeting…
GMB union reps and activists from across the country came to protest outside Asda House in Leeds against the company’s proposals to forcibly move what staff remain on other contracts onto ‘Contract 6’. Contract 6, while giving a slight pay increase, takes away paid breaks and forces increased ‘flexibility’ on staff, including working more bank…
Theresa May’s zombie government is still in place, lurching from one crisis to the next but looking increasingly likely to be consigned to the grave. Iain Dalton, Socialist Alternative candidate for Gipton and Harehills ward, Leeds Talk continues of local Tory party branches calling emergency general meetings at which they’d pass a no confidence motion…
Around 200 people gathered in Leeds on the 31st March for the second annual Trans Pride event that this year also marked the 10th anniversary of Trans Day of Visibility. Michael Johnson, Leeds Socialist Party Attendees spoke of the progress that has been made in that time but that this does not mean Trans people…
Around 500 people attended the Yorkshire Health Campaigns Together demonstration in Leeds on Saturday 30th March. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Campaigners and trade unionists from across came together to match through the city centre and rays awareness that despite the government’s now chronic paralysis over Brexit, the Tory plans to destroy our health service…
An angry public meeting in Leeds called by the Little London Tenants and Residents Association on Wednesday 20th March, discussed the proposal to build a 18 story block of private flats on a small green space. Kevin Pattison, Leeds Socialist Party Little London is near the city centre so developers are keen to build. The…
