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?
– An opinion piece by Kay Green What is International Law, and why was it established? Formalised by organisations like the United Nations, the purpose of International Law was initially to make trade deals between states workable but, and this… Read More »What do you think about International Law?
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!
The evils of administrative detention Hastings and District PSC (Palestine Solidarity Campaign) has been an active part of Hastings politics and Hastings community for long enough now that most people have a good idea what the issues are, but last… Read More »Just Because Israel Says So…