Michael Barker

Author of socialist books - available to download for free

[Leicester Trades Council @LandDTUC]

We need stand together as a Trade Union movement and oppose victimisation of reps. Please come to the meeting on Wednesday. Solidarity to Tom!

[Grassroots Left @Grassroots_Left]

We need to be on the pitch.

Grassroots Left will ensure @thisisyourparty stands candidates this May.

Join Your Party: https://t.co/C2J4CUTOaY

[Leicester Trades Council @LandDTUC]

Join us at this public meeting to support victimised rep Tom Barker on 18/02/26. Register here. https://t.co/g0dkqfv6D4 Solidarity!

[Michael Barker @mbarker_mike]

@ShockatAdam The government's Pride in Place scheme means the whole of Leicester will receive £750,000 for the year 2025-26 and another £750,000 the following year. The total amount being distributed across the entire country is £150 million

[Michael Barker @mbarker_mike]

@ShockatAdam Use it to fill the £1.57million being cuts from our city's libraries and community centres by our Labour Council!

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Your Party's founding conference next weekend is an opportunity to put the distractions and drama behind us and refocus on what actually matters: our members, our movement and our shared political vision of socialism.

The time is now.

Join the movement: https://t.co/g0Ua1vP0ug

[Michael Barker @mbarker_mike]

Your Party Leicester and Leicestershire. Discuss the documents collectively and prepare for conference!

[DemBloc @DemocraticBloc]

Great call with @zarahsultana and over 160 attendees on Zoom from across the country who joined us ahead of conference to hear Zarah speak about Maximum Member Democracy!

Check out our amendments at
https://t.co/zrXsb4k65J

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I'm hosting the eve of conference Your Party rally in Liverpool next Friday.

Join me, grassroots organisers and labour movement leaders as we organise and build a socialist party rooted in maximum member democracy.

It's Your Party — it must belong to you.

Get your ticket here: https://t.co/0o0UXRiFbH

[Inacio Vieira @InacioVieira]

Hearing YP's crowdediting portal'll be closed tomorrow. I wrote about the tool and the shortcomings of prompting an LLM to do such important work. Here's some recommendations from an AI researcher to protect the legitimacy of the process. Ther's still time https://t.co/944HclAF68

[Michael Barker @mbarker_mike]

@thisisyourparty must succeed: in fact, it cannot fail. Therefore, I hope that my new book The Fight For Your Party (which I am publishing today, November 16) might help us collectively build the type of radical democratic socialist party that our class so urgently needs.

[Michael Barker @mbarker_mike]

@thisisyourparty I published a blog responding to earlier attacks "The Your Party ‘MOU Smear Campaign’ Continues" – Thoughts of a Leicester Socialist

[Michael Barker @mbarker_mike]

@jpacnv recently published a review of my book "On Nonviolence" (2025) which can be downloaded for free here https://t.co/Wq3lXovain

[Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @AndreaEganGS]

Only 3 MP's in receipt of UNISON funding voted against cuts to disability benefits last night.

We need a General Secretary who defends the interests of our members, even against a Labour Government.

[National Education Union @NEUnion]

A 2.8% rise but no extra funding.

That means schools are expected to absorb the cost, pushing budgets to a 15-year low.

Staff cuts. Resource cuts. Still no fix to the recruitment and retention crisis.
We can’t afford this.

❌ REJECT this offer. ✔️ Vote YES to strike action for a fully funded, higher pay award. 👉 https://t.co/HBTsM148gK

#FundFairPay #SaveOurSchools

[#TimeForRealChange @tfrc_unison]

We have some truly wonderful people standing as our candidates for UNISONs upcoming NEC elections!

To find out more about them; head on over to our website: https://t.co/lro9F88lcH

[Socialist Alternative - England, Wales & Scotland @SocialistAltEWS]

We have launched subscriptions to our paper, Socialist Alternative! Our monthly paper goes beyond just telling the story of frontline struggles. We provide the socialist analysis, strategy and tactics needed to win socialist change.

Subscribe now - https://t.co/XDqxmik2aZ

[JustMe @jj2210]

Cllr Milan Radulovic MBE & 20 @UKLabour Councillors in Broxtowe, Notts, have resigned from the Labour Party over the refusal to pay State Pension Injustice #50sWomen aka #WASPI our due #CEDAWinLAW Settlement compensation & over other issues as detailed in their Statement below

[Joe Locker @JoeLocker96]

NEW: Cllr Milan Radulovic, one of 20 councillors to have resigned from the Labour Party over Starmer's leadership, tells me he effectively refers to him as "Keir and his Starmtroopers".

Labour says the news is "disappointing".

@Notts_TV #LDReporter

[Leicester Trades Council @LandDTUC]

Happy New Year to all trade unionists, our friends and supporters. It looks like the first outing of the year for our banner will be to oppose Reform. Come and join us.