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16 February 2022
Closed before Xmas, the Tory council in Southampton locked out hundreds of users from St Mary's Leisure Centre (SMLC) halfway through a council consultation on its future.
26 January 2022
Hundreds protest to save St Mary's Leisure Centre in Southampton
Southampton Tory council closed St Marys Leisure Centre on 22 December, locking out hundreds of users. They falsely claim that the building requires "millions" to maintain.
12 January 2022
Anne: Hillsborough and the fight for justice
Kevin Sampson's short TV series portrays the crusade for justice by the family of one of the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster's victims
12 January 2022
Bullying weighing room culture at the races
Horse racing, known as 'the sport of kings', has a long history. And for most of that time the jockeys were male, until the 1970s, in particular 1979, when women were allowed to become professional jockeys.
17 December 2021
Sandwell Leisure workers resist 'fire and rehire'
Sandwell Leisure Trust (SLT) workers, members of the Unison union, were back on strike at Portway and Oldbury Leisure centres on 14 December.
15 December 2021
Save St Mary's Leisure Centre in Southampton
Southampton Council says its priority is our health and wellbeing, but it seems St Mary's can do without
24 November 2021
Cricket's history of racism and elitism
The revelations of racism at one of the country's premier county cricket clubs were shocking and damning, and resonated beyond the confines of cricket
17 November 2021
As a Yorkshire cricket fan I was appalled that Yorkshire County Cricket (YCC) felt there was no action necessary against the staff and players that its own report found had subjected Azeem Rafiq to racist abuse.
16 November 2021
Born out of greed: 25 years of Rugby Super League
Like football today, the formation of the Rugby Super League was driven by commercialisation
10 November 2021
John Barnes on class and capitalism. What's missing?
Book review: The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism: 'The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism', by former footballer John Barnes, makes some valuable points
13 October 2021
Newcastle United takeover - no to billionaire Ashley or Saudi despots
For working-class control of football: The vast majority of Newcastle United fans were overjoyed on 7 October at the news that the 14-year reign of Mike Ashley, of Sports Direct infamy, was finally over.
9 October 2021
Newcastle United takeover: No to billionaire Ashley or Saudi despots
The Saudi Public Investment Fund owns 80% of the club.
11 August 2021
Olympic 'success' masks cuts and inequality
Every Olympics reflects the sad contradiction of the world we live in, but Tokyo 2020 took this to a new level.
11 August 2021
Don't privatise Dudley libraries
Outsourcing is the scourge of public services. It is the twisted idea that a company with no ties to the community could step in and do a better job than the public sector. That is demonstrably false.
14 July 2021
As a football fan that supports England, I never thought I'd see what the team achieved in at the World Cup in the summer 2018 topped
14 July 2021
Putting the Olympic gravy train ahead of public health
On 8 July, just over two weeks before the games were due to open, Japanese premier Suga Yoshihide announced that the Olympics would be held without spectators
30 June 2021
Sandwell Leisure workers: No to 'fire and rehire'
On 25 June, Unison union members working for Sandwell Leisure Trust (SLT), West Midlands, organised a strike at a number of leisure centres across the borough
2 June 2021
During more than thirty years of campaigning, the families of the 96 killed at Hillsborough and the Hillsborough Justice Campaign uncovered the truth: that 96 football fans were unlawfully killed
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