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Starmer’s mobile: the Muckery leaves a message
Recently, Labour leader Keir Starmer was told to change his phone number because people he knew from twenty years ago keep “popping up to give him advice”. Actually, we feel as though he does need to be taken aside for a ‘quiet word’, maybe as follows: “Oi, Keir! You got a minute? Listen, no offence,… Continue reading
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Weaponising religion
We’re no fans of the Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, and we’ve been told that he doesn’t like the Muckery much either. However, just after the recent council and mayoral elections, he talked about the “weaponising of religion” in local election campaigns and the dangers this presents to communities here. In this instance, we have to… Continue reading
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Challenging schools
Have you got a child with autism or ADHD? Is your child reluctant to attend school? If the answer is yes, then probably one of the major challenges as a parent today is navigating the school/parent relationship: or more precisely, getting your child’s school to listen to anything you’ve got to say. As a teacher… Continue reading
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Elbit: the siege continues
Following on from our earlier article on Elbit, this report has been sent to us by our friend Guerrilla Nature down at the siege. Despite heavy-handed tactics from Leicestershire Police and staff from other forces, who were drafted in on Tuesday 2nd May as part of a concerted effort to disperse them, activists still occupy… Continue reading
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Today’s Council and Mayoral elections
Since Leicester Muckery issue 1 hit the streets, we’ve been asked about the “Labour pains” article and why we don’t seem to be backing any of the candidates in this month’s mayoral and council elections. Well, while we know, even like and wish some of the candidates with working class politics well, we’re not interested… Continue reading
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The most ‘hard-working’ Royals… er, come again?
This weekend sees the Coronation of King Charles. We’ll take the Bank Holiday but isn’t it about time we ditched the royals? It must be a slow news month. Scanning the pages of Hello! in the newsagent recently, we noticed this article that revealed who in the Royal Family was the most industrious. Apparently, it’s Princess Anne,… Continue reading
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Police attack Elbit siege camp!
Large numbers of police have attacked the Elbit siege camp, making around 30 arrests on spurious but very serious “conspiracy to commit criminal damage” grounds. The only theft and violence to property has come from the police who have stolen tents, confiscated as “evidence” and smashed the windows of a parked car – all to… Continue reading
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It’s a fair cop, guv
Here is Rupert Matthews, Leicester Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC). He won this job in 2021 with a 31% turnout of those eligible to vote. Hmm… if this were a trade union ballot, the anti-union laws would say it’d be null and void, but as this is a vote for a Tory sleazebag, then we… Continue reading
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Victory to the Health Workers!
On 1st May, the International Workers Day, RCN nurses across the country will be on strike. They have refused to accept the Government’s pay offer, seeing it for what it was, a derisory cut in real pay. They have rejected the pleas of their union leaders, who said it was the best deal they could… Continue reading
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Leicester Muckery issue 2 PDF version
A couple of days early, here’s the May edition of Leicester Muckery! Continue reading
About us
The Leicester Muckery is a working class bulletin.
It is published by the Leicester Muckery Collective (LMC). The Leicester Muckery punches up and targets the powerful, those who exploit, the entitled and the bigoted.
It stands for:
- Ideas and actions based on mutual aid, solidarity, collective responsibility, individual freedom, autonomy and free association.
- It sees things in terms of bosses and workers, the powerful and powerless, rich and poor, order-givers and order-takers, oppressors and oppressed. In short, capitalism.
- It fights against such a system.
- It supports actions and ideas that increase working class confidence, autonomy, initiative, participation, solidarity, self-activity and unity of the working class in the face of capitalist exploitation and oppression.
- It opposes actions and ideas which divide the working class – such as nationalism, racism, sexism, homophobia and the view that we should rise above our class.
Instead, we should rise with our class!
To get in touch with the Leicester Muckery Collective, or if you want to get involved, email us at:
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