August 2025 – Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
5 posts published by mbarker2012 during August 2025| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
5 posts published by mbarker2012 during August 2025| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
This letter was published in the Leicester Mercury on August 23, 2025. Corporate giant Deutsche Bahn, the greedy owners of CrossCountry rail services, are once again causing significant disruption to ordinary people. Repeating an all too familiar scenario, rail managers have failed to honour agreements on staffing, safety, and pay; so their employees have been […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Over 800,000 people have signed up to YourParty, and Zarah Sultana has the potential to make a great co-leader of our new political formation. In a recent interview, Sultana highlights some of the political mistakes that were made by Jeremy Corbyn when he was leading the Labour Party. And despite the ongoing distortions of the […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Mass movements and new socialist political parties don’t just appear out of nowhere, and their formation and development are based upon and informed by prior forms of popular struggle. In the context of the launching of YourParty.uk many important lessons can be gleaned from the problems accompanying the rapid rise of previous political organisations, and […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
A new socialist party is in the process of being launched and democracy will be central to its many potential successes. Therefore, it is useful for ordinary members of this new initiative to do everything that we can to make sure that our new party (YourParty.uk) is fully democratic at all levels. Seen in this […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
The numbers keep growing. Over 700,000 have signed up to be founding members of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s provisionally named YourParty.uk. So, the critical question that faces this germina…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
The Leicester Mercury has done a great job in publishing many letters which have raised extremely serious concerns with Sir Peter Soulsby’s new public spaces protection order (PSPO). The umbrella body for the regions trade unions, the Leicester and District Trades Union Council, has been vocal in its opposition to the city’s new anti-democratic PSPO as has […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
The following article is a response to Wes Streeting’s opinion piece that he has just published in the Guardian (July 24). Wes Streeting is a perfect capitalist representative, as is his political party, and in Streeting’s latest missive he makes a strong case for why the British Medical Association (BMA) should sign up to affiliate […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Today, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana made a powerful and official joint announcement confirming a process towards the party’s foundation. This is brilliant news: sign-up here yourparty.uk The signup page notes: “It’s time to build a new kind of political party – one that belongs to you. Sign up to build this party, together. Soon, […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Leicester Labour-run Council have come under fire from UNISON’s General Secretary because of their refusal to act against racism in their workplace. Yesterday it was announced that Bindu Parmar had…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Last night Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana spoke at an important political meeting that was co-hosted by TUSC and Collective. The online meeting aimed to bring together trade unionists to discuss the next steps that we can take to ensure that our unions are fully involved in the building of the new political party that […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Earlier this year, when Leicester’s Labour-run City Council decided to open a consultation on introducing a new public space protection order (PSPO) they asked people what type of anti-social behav…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Leicester’s Labour-run city council are intent on gutting our public services; and our council are presently going through the final stages of a so-called consultation on their planned destruction …| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
On April 2, Leicester’s Labour-led council opened a CONsultation on their plans to cut funding for our libraries and community centres “by up to £2.1million.” And while the results of the consultat…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Capitalist politicians of all stripes love a good scapegoat, with an ideal candidate being someone new, like a migrant from a foreign country. And history sadly gives us too many examples of such d…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
It is positive that another protest has been called against Leicester’s Labour-led City Council because of their ongoing plans to defund our libraries and community centres. This demonstration is b…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Nationwide, Labour-run local authorities seem determined to prove to ordinary people that Labour do not want to help them. In taking this regressive approach, they are replicating the Labour Party’…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
