Socialist Party members joined Unite taxi & private hire drivers, disabled taxi users and Unite Community activists in a protest outside Leeds Civic Hall in opposition to plans by the council and Network Rail to move the taxi rank outside the station as part of redevelopment plans. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party As Wasim, one…
A socially distanced protest calling for global justice, aimed at the G7 meeting in Cornwall took an unexpected turn on Friday 11th June. Kevin Pattison, Vice President, Leeds Trades Council & Leeds Socialist Party As we gathered on the Parkinson Steps, the usual place for demonstrations at Leeds University, we were met by police and security…
In the first protest so far in Yorkshire, around 15 construction electricians, protested outside the training centre of construction giant NG Bailey, in South Leeds. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party As well as support from Leeds TUC, we brought solidarity to the protest from candidates standing for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition in the…
Leeds Socialist Party joined around 400 people on Sunday at a demonstration against the government’s new police bill. The bill represents a significant attack on the right to protest and the mood among the largely young protesters was determined and angry. James Ellis, Leeds Socialist Party The Socialist Party gave out over 300 leaflets, sold…
“This is about putting profits over people” said one GMB striker at the British Gas workers demonstration in Leeds, summarising the nature of the dispute, now in its 13th day of strike action. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party Friday 5th February at 12noon was the deadline given to workers before moving on to one-to-one ‘consultations’…
British Gas workers, primarily engineers, are currently locked in battle with boss Chris O’Shea over his attempts to impose attacks on terms and conditions through firing and re-hiring the workforce. Iain Dalton, Leeds Socialist Party The workers, organised in the GMB union, have been taking strike action during January, with Friday 29th being the 9th…
For the second weekend in a row, protesters gathered in Leeds in solidarity with the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Organised by the Nigerian Student Society at Leeds University and Black Lives Matter Leeds, at least 80 attended despite the poor weather. Leeds Socialist Party members The Socialist Party’s leaflets, reproducing the leaflet given out by…
“We’ve started this, and there’s no going back” were the remarks of one speaker at the #endsars protest on October 24th in Millennium Square, Leeds. Around 50-60 joined the protest organised by the Nigerian Student Society at Leeds University. As well as slogans against police violence and demands to dismantle the SARS and SWAT police…
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…
There was a palpable sense of anger and optimism at the around seven thousand strong Black Voices Matter protest in Leeds on Sunday. James Ellis, Leeds Socialist Party The largely young, diverse and working-class protest went off peacefully, with social distancing being observed and a hunger for ideas on how to take this movement forward….
