7 posts published by mbarker2012 during August 2025| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
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10 posts published by mbarker2012 during September 2025| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
As an excited member of Your Party and an active member of the proto-branch in Leicestershire, I think it is critical that we get in contact with all the other members across our region. Yet, at the moment this is not possible. For a start I (and everyone else involved) want to invite the thousands […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Your Party may not have a constitution or any founding documents, but its current unelected leadership is insisting that members “cannot be a member of another political party.” Of course, if people are members of a political party that tries to prevent Your Party winning elections, then they shouldn’t be a member of Your Party. […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Letter in Leicester Mercury (September 25, 2025) Some of this country’s largest trade unions, like UNISON and Unite, fund the Labour Party, and with the immanent launch of a new political party on the left, the issue of whether this funding farce should continue is becoming a hot topic. Earlier this month, union members of […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Hundreds of thousands of Your Party supporters are still waiting to join and start the process of constructing a transparent and democratic political party that can win and win big for the working class! But so far supporters have been pretty much kept in the dark. That partially changed on September 16 when Your Party’s […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Come hell or high water Your Party is coming, and it will be coming soon. And while there are clearly serious political differences between Zarah Sultana and the other Independent Alliance MPs grouped behind Jeremy Corbyn, if the appropriate lessons are drawn out, the ongoing struggle for democracy could help to strengthen Your Party by […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Labour only have plans for further austerity, plans which involve cutting even more money from our city’s public services. The Leicester Mercury has just published an article entitled “Fears Leicester’s ‘lifeline’ adventure playgrounds could be lost amid renewed funding threat” (September 18). The article ends likes this: “The final six month grant is set to […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
The Guardian newspaper, as we all know, is part of the establishment. And when Your Party is formally launched, we can depend on the Guardian for just one thing, and that is to undermine our efforts to organise a socialist alternative to the rigged capitalist status quo. Today’s so-called analysis in the Guardian is right on point. First, the […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Buildings material giant Tarmac make millions out of exploiting its workforce. This is hardly surprising, as for the year to 31 December 2023, Tarmac’s pre-tax profits jumped from £125.9 million to £168.1 million. Adding insult to injury, the Irish Independent (September 14) has just reported that the stock of Tarmac’s parent company CRH “is up 15.4% […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
The following letter was published in the Leicester Mercury (September 17, 2025) Banks continue to rake in record profits, while ordinary people continue to suffer financial hardship. The Trades Union Congress, which represents millions of underpaid workers, commented on exactly this issue in a recent report which surmised that banks are “making more money than […]| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
Personally, I don’t like to gamble, the odds are never good. I would, however, bet that ordinary people can, and will, make Your Party an earth-shattering success. The capitalist stack of cards tha…| Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist
July 24: The YourParty.uk web site went live allowing people to officially sign up. The founding statement (signed by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana) highlighted how “The system is rigged” adding …| 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 …| 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
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
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
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