In West Yorkshire, Socialist Party members joined two 1000+ strong demonstrations on Saturday 20th January. The now weekly march in Leeds swelled up from hundreds the week before to around a thousand this week, marching noisily round the city. In Batley several hundred had assembled to march to Dewsbury but as they set off people…
To chants of “Cutback, fightback” and “Kirklees Council, shame on you” campaigners marched from Batley to Dewsbury to highlight the savage cuts being carried through by the council. Iain Dalton, Socialist Party Yorkshire Secretary With a £47m hole in their finances for next year, the last few months have seen more and more announcements of…
For the third time in as many weeks, thousands of people marched through the streets of Leeds against the ongoing siege and bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli state. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Those joining the demonstration were motivated by a mix of anger at the devastation being wrought on the people of Gaza,…
Over 50 taxi drivers and supporters protested in Leeds on Wednesday 10th November against proposals by network Rail and West Yorkshire combined authority to relocate the hackney carriage taxi rank to a space beneath the station. Kevin Pattison (Chair, Leeds & Wakefield Unite Community) This is the 3rd protest which was again supported by Leeds and Wakefield…
A couple of thousand of people joined the COP26 demonstration in Leeds on 6th November to coincide with the major protest outside the conference in Glasgow, after a week in which the incapability of the capitalist powers around the globe to act to tackle the looming threat of climate change has become ever clearer, many…
What do a group of people dressed as ‘Maybots’, a mock trident missile and a samba band have in common? They were all part of lively and noisy march through Leeds City Centre in anger at the Tory cutbacks to the NHS. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Around 1,500 people joined the Yorkshire March for…
