Hastings People’s Party is a group of local activists who got together back in the Spring to create a local new left party, in the hope that we would link up with people doing similar work all over the country.So… Read More »It’s Your Party!
Vicky Wilson is a campaigner for tenants’ rights who wants to stand in the upcoming council elections in May. Labour was elected in 2024, promising to bring ‘change’, but in Hastings, like everywhere else, we still have poverty wages, rising… Read More »Back VICKY WILSON! An Independent Community Candidate for Ore
We live in a globalised world facing global problems. Competition for profits drives competition for natural resources that is constantly creating conflict and war. Climate change is causing fires, droughts, floods and famines. As countries become uninhabitable and societies break… Read More »International Solidarity
Local government in Hastings is changing as the government introduces elements of devolution (an elected mayor for all of Sussex) and local government reorganisation (‘unitarizing’, or merging, the local district and county councils). Hastings Peoples Party wants more democracy not… Read More »Local Democracy
The privatisation of education – academisation and the selling off of grounds and assets – is 99% complete in Hastings and the surrounding area. This policy, started by Margaret Thatcher and enthusiastically sped along by Tony Blair, has decimated local… Read More »Education
In our area we have a huge number of issues with our health service. The one that impacts most on residents is the lack of capacity at GP surgeries. All complain about the near-impossibility of making a face-to-face appointment, which… Read More »Health
The cost of living crisis is really a low wages crisis. As prices for essentials go up year on year – rents, mortgages, food, energy and fuel prices have all sky-rocketed – our wages are just not keeping up. For… Read More »Workplace Action
Capitalism is killing us. Our green spaces, our air, our wildlife, our rivers and seas, our food – the basis for all life on earth – is being sacrificed for profit. Forests burn and ice-caps melt, while we’re served up… Read More »Environment
For too many people in Hastings, housing is insecure, unhealthy, overcrowded, too expensive or they have nowhere to live at all. When the government talks about building housing as the solution, their real agenda is about ‘economic growth’ i.e. building… Read More »Housing
Talk of the catastrophic effects of climate change no longer points listeners to the distant future. Some predictions regarding the failing Gulf Stream, which will eventually throw our UK weather is heading into disaster, place the tipping point around now,… Read More »Catastrophic Climate Change is Here
Come to the next Talking Shop, hosted by Hastings People’s Party, to discuss the Climate Crisis, the Denial, and perhaps the Possibilities for what we can do locally to address the problem. All are Welcome! Details Below: Also, regular meetings… Read More »Climate Crisis! – and What Do We Do About It?