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18 hours ago September 25, 2016September 25, 2016mbarker2012

Why Owen Jones Was Right: The Blairites are Toxic to the Labour Movement

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3 days ago September 23, 2016September 24, 2016mbarker2012

Cuts to Leicester’s Community Services Must End Now!

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5 days ago September 21, 2016September 21, 2016mbarker2012

Why Red Star Challenged Peter Soulsby: The Story of the Founding of Leicester Nirvana FC

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6 days ago September 20, 2016September 21, 2016mbarker2012

How to Make a Career in Politics: Kirk Master a Bootiful Example in the Making

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7 days ago September 19, 2016September 19, 2016mbarker2012

Law and Disorder at the Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute

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1 week ago September 18, 2016September 18, 2016mbarker2012

Labour Bullies Within the Mail on Sunday

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1 week ago September 17, 2016September 17, 2016mbarker2012

Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party: A Deepening Rift Between Socialists and Careerists

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1 week ago September 16, 2016September 16, 2016mbarker2012

Why We Won’t Let Vaughan Close!

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2 weeks ago September 15, 2016September 15, 2016mbarker2012

Leicester’s Labour Councillors Make the ULTIMATE Sacrifice!

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2 weeks ago September 14, 2016September 14, 2016mbarker2012

“Saving” Children’s Services: The Letter that Leicester City Labour Council Wanted to Send, But Never Did

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This blog is maintained by Michael Barker, author of the just published book Letters to Mercury: The Socialist Fightback in Leicester. Last year he stood as the Leicester East parliamentary candidate for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)

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  • Why Red Star Challenged Peter Soulsby: The Story of the Founding of Leicester Nirvana FC
  • How to Make a Career in Politics: Kirk Master a Bootiful Example in the Making
  • Law and Disorder at the Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute

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Recent Posts

  • Why Owen Jones Was Right: The Blairites are Toxic to the Labour Movement
  • Cuts to Leicester’s Community Services Must End Now!
  • Why Red Star Challenged Peter Soulsby: The Story of the Founding of Leicester Nirvana FC
  • How to Make a Career in Politics: Kirk Master a Bootiful Example in the Making
  • Law and Disorder at the Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute
  • Labour Bullies Within the Mail on Sunday
  • Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party: A Deepening Rift Between Socialists and Careerists
  • Why We Won’t Let Vaughan Close!
  • Leicester’s Labour Councillors Make the ULTIMATE Sacrifice!
  • “Saving” Children’s Services: The Letter that Leicester City Labour Council Wanted to Send, But Never Did
  • Unison Support Workers Fight Back Against Threatened 25% Pay Cut
  • The Short Tale of Blairite Piara Singh Clair and His Open Mind
  • Heart Unit Protestors Take to Belgrave Road in Pouring Rain
  • Samworth Brothers: The Bullies Who Won’t Share With Their Workers
  • Saving Vaughan and the Future of Education for Leicester
  • A Tale of Trust, Sham Consultations, and Public Resistance
  • Keith Vaz and Britain’s Anti-Democratic Media Landscape
  • Keith Vaz: Man of Mystery
  • Hospital Closures: Campaigning and Winning
  • Unpacking PREVENT: Islamophobia and the Counter-Terror Industry

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