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  • When Cllr Adam Clarke Tweeted About Transport Poverty
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  • Fighting to Save Ash Field’s Residential Services and ALL Other SEND Services
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  • Why Goscote House Must Be Saved
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Recent Posts

  • Why Socialists and Not “Not Our Future” Should Be Fighting to Lead the Campaign Against Oxford’s Regressive Traffic Plans
  • When Cllr Adam Clarke Tweeted About Transport Poverty
  • Successful Union Campaign Scraps Leicester’s Workplace Parking Levy
  • Fighting to Save Ash Field’s Residential Services and ALL Other SEND Services
  • Days of Hope in Leicester: The 1926 General Strike
  • Caring for Leicester’s Children: Two Much-Needed Care Homes Being Built
  • Why Elly Cutkelvin is a Bad Choice for Labour in Loughborough?
  • “Motion on Fighting Cuts” That was Passed by UNISON Local Government Service Group Executive (November 2022)
  • How the Fight to Eliminate Violence Against Women Can, and Must, Be Taken Into Every Workplace
  • Former Leicester Labour Councillor on the Case of Greville Janner
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  • Keith Vaz’s Political Machine Rolls On
  • Councillor Adam Clarke’s Strange Take on Road Closures and Consultations: The Case of Buckminster Road
  • Why Sir Peter Soulsby’s Strategy of “Pleading” With The Tories Will Never Help Leicester
  • Labour Party Members in the East Midlands “that sit on their hands and allow injustice to pass them by are an equal to the oppressor” states the Fire Brigades Union
  • Why We Need To Act Now to Solve Leicester’s Housing and Cost-of-Living Crisis!
  • Revolutionary Struggle in Iran: Conspiracies, Enemies, and Friends
  • Hindu and Jain Leaders in Leicester Boycott Just-Announced Independent Review into Communal Violence
  • Zip Student Bedsits and the Truth About Goscote House
  • When the Labour Convention of Indian Organisations Weighed in on Leicester’s Violence

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