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
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?
Free Screening: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED In 1998 Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela. He proved to be a tough, visionary socialist leader – which is why the country’s establishment power structure wanted him deposed as quickly… Read More »The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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!