Congratulations to Women’s Lives Matter for organising a brilliant first national meeting. People from around the UK attended and brought with them a wealth of experience, ideas and proposals. Heather Rawling Sinead Daly, CEO of Dundee and Angus Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre, opened the meeting by saying that we shouldn’t have to have…
Leeds TUC organised a successful anti-austerity conference on Saturday 24th November. Kevin Pattison, Leeds TUC Vice-President It is part of our campaign to show the damage austerity is doing to local services, and to raise alternatives. We started with reports from groups affected by austerity Fearnville Fields – succesful campaign to save playing fields DEAL…
Around 80 people packed into a standing room only meeting organised by the RMT (transport union) in support of the long-running dispute to maintain the safety-critical role of the guard on Northern Rail services. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party RMT General Secretary Mick Cash opened the meeting saying the union will take whatever action is…
Socialist Students and the Socialist Party held a public vote at the RMT’s picket line at Leeds station this Saturday, which graphically demonstrated public support for striking RMT workers on Northern Rail. Lots of people were keen to get involved and show their support for the striking workers in their struggle against DOO – Driver…
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…
