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4 March 2020
Uni strikers determined to defeat the bosses
Strikers and supporters rallied at Leeds University on the fifth day of strike action
19 February 2020
Sixth-form strikers stand firm for increased funding
Picket line reports from Leeds and east London
29 January 2020
Going into their ninth week of action over pay, Westex carpet strikers had a boost when the local BBC news programme Look North filmed and interviewed the pickets.
9 October 2019
'The little people can win' - Leeds tenants push back demolition
After over two years of campaigning, the residents of Woodsworth Drive and Sugar Hill Close in Leeds have had plans to demolish their homes voted down unanimously by Leeds City Council's planning committee.
11 September 2019
Leeds pensioners occupy BBC to save free TV licenses
"BBC, shame on you" was the chant as around 50 pensioners from across Yorkshire, including as far away as Scarborough, occupied the reception area of the Leeds BBC offices.
14 August 2019
Leeds estate residents push back private development
Leeds Socialist Party members have been campaigning alongside the Little London Tenants and Residents Association (TRA) against a 'mega-block' proposed for this community on the outskirts of Leeds city centre.
26 June 2019
London demo applauds call for a democratic, socialist Sudan; no trust in imperialist powers in Leeds
5 June 2019
LS26 campaign lobbies council to save their homes
"Leeds City Council hear us say, vote to save our homes today" was the chant that rang out from the tenants of Sugar Hill Close and Wordsworth Drive in Boulton, Leeds
Socialist Party member Janet Gibson advertising NSSN conference at a protest of steel construction workers outside a Siemans factory in Lincoln
31 May 2019
A speaker at the youth climate change protest in Newcastle, 21.6.19, photo by Elaine Brunskill
22 May 2019
Labour's nationalisation plan: What policies are needed to avert climate catastrophe?
Jeremy Corbyn has announced a 'Green Industrial Revolution.' The plans include nationalising the gas and electricity supply - taking the National Grid into public ownership.
8 May 2019
Socialist vision at Leeds May Day rally
"If we want a society that doesn't destroy our planet, then it is up to us, working-class people, to come together and fight for it"
8 May 2019
Asda workers protest against attacks on paid breaks and bank holiday working
GMB union reps and activists from across the country came to protest outside Asda House in Leeds against the company's proposals to forcibly move what staff remain on other contracts onto 'Contract 6'
24 April 2019
Austerity must go! Kick out the Tories - we need a Socialist Alternative
On the doorstep we've had a warm response
17 April 2019
Letters to the Socialist including National Action, socialists miners and the army.
3 April 2019
Discussion and debate at Leeds Trans Pride
Transphobic hate crimes are going up. Trans people have gained some legal protections but still face high levels of unemployment and around a two-year wait for NHS services.
3 April 2019
NHS marches in Yorkshire and London
Campaigners and trade unionists came together to march through Leeds city centre and say that, despite the government's chronic paralysis over Brexit, the Tory plans to destroy our health service are still ongoing.
27 March 2019
Leeds residents' anger against private 18-story monster block in 'Little London'
An angry public meeting in Leeds - called by the Little London Tenants and Residents Association - discussed the proposal to build an 18-story block of private flats on a small green space
20 February 2019
Leeds TUC presents a no-cuts alternative budget
The anti-austerity committee of Leeds Trade Union Council (TUC) - which brings together the city's unions - presented its alternative city budget at a special public meeting on 12 February.
30 January 2019
A strategy to fight the far right
Around 20 people attended a public meeting in Leeds on 21 January to discuss 'how to stop the far right - build a movement against the Tories and austerity' - a topic on everyone's minds since a group calling itself "Antifa Public Watch" tried to disrupt a Socialist Party meeting earlier in the month.
23 January 2019
Leeds: don't let the far right divide us
About 100 right-wing 'yellow vest' protesters gathered in Leeds city centre on 19 January
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