RMT members held a day of leafletting outside major rail stations including Leeds over the latest round of fare hikes of 3.8% at a time many rail services are facing huge cuts. As the leaflets were headlined, rail users are paying #Moreforless. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Socialist Party members joined the action in Leeds….
Leeds Labour council is preparing to pass on another round of Tory austerity. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) held its People’s Budget meeting to discuss how trade unionists and community campaigners could fight this and other attacks. The meeting included local campaigners, and a rep delegated from their branch of civil service union…
Leeds Labour-run council has announced plans for massive cuts in services and jobs across the city in the coming months and year, on the basis of pressures on the council due to Covid-19. Michael Johnson, Leeds Socialist Party In September alone, the council made plans for cuts of around £32.6 million, with a reduction in…
This weekend marked the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the NHS. Leeds had several events organised by Keep Out NHS Public. First were some limited number protest front of the the main hospitals on Saturday. Sunday there was a car cavalcade in South Leeds. Tanis Belsham-Wray, Leeds Socialist Party Socialist Party members took part…
The Covid-19 crisis has pushed councils up and down the country into a new financial crisis. The Centre for Progressive Policy thinktank expects eight out of ten tier-one local authorities to face the threat of bankruptcy. Labour-led Leeds City Council is the biggest of the councils to publicly raise this possibility. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist…
Supporters of the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) in Leeds held a protest outside Debenhams in Leeds, alongside others organised in London, Plymouth and Southampton against the companies savage cuts to jobs and stores, as part of a day of action called by members of the retail workers union, Usdaw, in the NSSN. Iain Dalton,…
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…
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…
At a specially convened public meeting on Tuesday night, Leeds TUC’s anti-austerity committee presented it’s alternative budget proposals to reverse all the cuts to jobs and services as well as reversing fee and rent increases in this year’s Leeds City Council budget. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party This year’s Leeds City Council budget is the…
Below we print two reports – firstly from the counter-demo to a right-wing ‘Yellow Vests’ protest in Leeds and then from a public meeting the Socialist Party called in response to an attempt to disrupt one of our meetings a fortnight ago. About 100 right-wing ‘yellow vest’ protesters gathered in Leeds city centre, outside the…
