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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Private developer Engie has withdrawn its application to build an 18-storey monster block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
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.
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