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June 10, 2018June 11, 2018mbarker2012

Child Rape and the Roots of Political Anger: Grooming Gangs in Context

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018mbarker2012

Escalating Attacks on the Working-Class: The Dangers of the Blairite Response to Knife Crime

April 24, 2018April 24, 2018mbarker2012

The Tories are in their Final Death Throes. Now Build a Movement to Finish the Job!

December 28, 2017December 28, 2017mbarker2012

Britain’s Care Crisis: How Profiteers Are Crippling Us All

December 19, 2017December 19, 2017mbarker2012

Reversing the Deadly Crisis Facing Children’s Care

December 1, 2017December 1, 2017mbarker2012

How People-Power Saved Glenfield Children’s Heart Unit!

November 29, 2017December 2, 2017mbarker2012

Rebel Labour Councillors Challenge Leicester City Mayor

November 26, 2017November 26, 2017mbarker2012

Self-Interest First and Keith Vaz’s Contribution to the Politics of Division

November 22, 2017November 28, 2017mbarker2012

Join the Fight to Save Streetvibe

July 5, 2017July 5, 2017mbarker2012

Leicester Anti-Cuts Campaigner Says, “Time running out to fight Tory cuts”

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