Two members of Unite the union in Hastings, Grace Lally and Emily Price, were arrested in February for ‘aggravated trespass’ for taking part in a peaceful protest against Southern Housing selling off a 3 bed house at auction. Emily was… Read More »Selling Social Housing, It’s A Crime!
Andrea Cowhig is putting herself forward as a community candidate for Hollington in the upcoming Council election. She’s holding a meeting on Wednesday 25 March to launch her campaign. Andrea first started campaigning because of damp and mould in her… Read More »A Campaigning Voice For Hollington!
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