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12 January 2022
People's Budget: We beat council cuts before, we will again
Leeds Labour council is preparing to pass on another round of Tory austerity.
24 November 2021
HS2 eastern route cancelled: Fight for a workers' plan for public transport
In an announcement that surprised no-one on 18 November, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that the eastern route of HS2 from Birmingham to Leeds would be cancelled
17 November 2021
Leeds cab drivers protest against taxi rank move
Over 50 taxi drivers protested in Leeds on 10 November, against proposals by Network Rail and West Yorkshire combined authority to relocate the hackney carriage taxi rank to a space beneath the station
17 November 2021
Leeds solidarity protest says stop Sudan coup
Chanting "down, down, Al-Burhan", over 100 people from Leeds' Sudanese community rallied on 13 November in support of the mass protests taking place on the same day in Sudan
29 September 2021
Youth climate protests are back
On 24 September, students walked out of their classes to protest
22 September 2021
Yorkshire Youth Fight for Jobs relaunched
Work and education are being closed to us: The Youth Fight for Jobs (YFJ) campaign was relaunched in Yorkshire at an online public meeting on 17 September, in anticipation of the end of the furlough scheme
22 September 2021
Leeds taxi drivers and disabled passengers unite to fight station changes
The anger of taxi and private hire drivers at the Labour-run council is palpable. Socialist Party members joined drivers in the Unite union, disabled taxi users and Unite Community activists to protest
25 August 2021
University of Leeds students bribed to stay away while staff are under attack
The University of Leeds recently announced that it would offer £10,000 and free accommodation to some potential students to persuade them to defer for a year
16 June 2021
International solidarity protests
Leeds 'greets' G7: A socially distanced protest calling for global justice, aimed at the G7 meeting in Cornwall, took an unexpected turn on 11 June
28 April 2021
No trust in billionaire football owners - kick them out and reclaim the game
Super League defeated: Socialist Party members Lenny Shail, who is a Chelsea fan and was at the Stamford Bridge protest, and Leeds fan Ian Pattison said:
24 March 2021
Defying the anti-protest restrictions
On 21 March angry protests broke out against the new draconian police and crime sentencing bill
4 November 2020
Leeds protesters demand "Buhari must go!"
For the second weekend in a row, protesters gathered in Leeds in solidarity with the #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
4 November 2020
Optare strikers escalate their action
At a meeting held on the picket line on 30 October, workers at bus manufacturer Optare in Sherburn in Elmet, Leeds voted to escalate their ongoing strike action in their long-running pay dispute from two days a week, to four days a week, starting from 16 November.
21 October 2020
Optare workers strike over pay broken 'promise'
Unite members at bus manufacturer Optare, in Sherburn in Elmet, on the outskirts of Leeds, took the first strike in a series of discontinuous 48-hour strikes starting on 15 October, alongside a continuous overtime ban.
19 August 2020
Leeds: Little London residents are celebrating
Private developer Engie has withdrawn its application to build an 18-storey monster block
1 July 2020
Leeds City Council in danger of bankruptcy
The Covid-19 crisis has pushed councils up and down the country into a new financial crisis.
24 June 2020
Black Lives Matter protests: week three
Some of the local protests up and down the country.
29 April 2020
130 Years of May Day in Britain: Fight for workers' rights more relevant than ever
Overworked, underpaid, struggling to afford the basics - this is true of the situation facing many 'key workers' that the Covid-19 lockdown has so clearly demonstrated society is dependent on.
22 April 2020
Socialism the Podcast: What do our listeners think?
I was listening to the latest episode of the Socialist Party's podcast while cooking. My boyfriend came in to ask who was speaking and how someone who talks sense had been allowed on the radio!
4 March 2020
Uni strikers determined to defeat the bosses
Strikers and supporters rallied at Leeds University on the fifth day of strike action
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