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9 May 2012
Brighton Socialist Party: New/social media and protest
Many of the movements globally in 2011 have highlighted the use of internet networking sites, with some commentators claiming that these were 'Twitter' or 'Facebook' revolutions, writes Wednesday 9 May 2012.
25 April 2012
Brighton: Mass protest counters racist EDL
On 22 April a mass mobilisation of up to 1,000 anti-racists joined a demonstration to counter the English Defence League and their annual 'March for England' through Brighton
18 April 2012
Success at Varndean College, Brighton
I recently stood, with some friends who share similar political beliefs to me, for election to positions in Varndean College, Brighton, writes Ewan Atkinson.
28 March 2012
Brighton Uni: Socialist Students five votes from victory
Frequently dominated by populist politics and joke candidates, student union elections are too often the stomping ground of the apolitical and the right-wing bureaucracy that dominate local student unions and large sections of the National Union of Students (NUS), writes Jack Poole, Brighton University Socialist Students.
13 February 2012
Brighton debate with Green councillor on fighting the cuts
At a Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition debate on 2 February, attended by over 120 people, Green party councillor Jason Kitcat defended 'savings' by the council
30 November 2011
Brighton Greens fail to fight the cuts
Brighton local government elections in May 2011 resulted in 23 Green councillors, 18 Tories and 13 Labour, giving the Greens, elected on an 'anti-cuts' election campaign, control over the council cabinet
School students and teachers protest against academies at Tile Hill Wood school in Coventry, photo Coventry Socialist Party
20 July 2011
Defending state education - Brighton academy victory
I was a governor at Varndean school for over four years because I passionately believe in a properly resourced comprehensive education system, open to all regardless of their background, writes Dave Richards, former Varndean governor
9 March 2011
Brighton: Labour and Green Party councillors fail to stop Tory budget
ON THURSDAY 3 March, Brighton and Hove council passed a budget condemning the city to £24 million of cuts, writes Peter Knight, Brighton Socialist Party and Clive Heemskerk.
7 March 2011
Labour and Green councillors in Brighton fail to stop Tory budget
Protesters witnessed a horrendous farce of a council budget meeting inside Brighton Town Hall that agonisingly swung an axe down on jobs, communities and services
3 November 2010
Brighton: Anti-cuts movement continues to grow
Two thousand people marched in the Brighton Stop the Cuts Coalition (BSTC) demonstration on Saturday 30 October, writes Jon Redford, South East Socialist Party.
22 September 2010
Building the anti-cuts fightback: Local campaign launches
Brighton: Over 200 people packed into Friends Meeting House in Brighton on Thursday 9 September to launch a community-wide campaign against cuts...
14 September 2010
Brighton meeting rejects cuts agenda
Over 200 people packed into Friends Meeting House in Brighton to launch a community-wide campaign against the neoliberal cuts...
9 September 2010
Far right not welcome in Brighton
Just days after 700 protested in Bradford, the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marched through Brighton...
9 September 2010
Far right not welcome in Brighton
Just days after 700 protested in Bradford, the far-right English Defence League (EDL) marched through Brighton...
30 June 2010
Opposing the slash and burn budget
Brighton: Up to 200 socialists and trade unionists from a range of city workplaces united to vent their anger at the Con-Dem budget on Tuesday 22 June at a Brighton, Hove and District trades union council organised demonstration outside Hove town hall...
28 April 2010
Debt balloons go up in Brighton Kemptown
Dave Hill, TUSC parliamentary candidate for Brighton Kemptown, released 168 balloons on 24 April, each one representing £1 billion to symbolise the government deficit...
Brighton trades Council demonstration against cuts, led by the save Our Nursery campaign, photo P. Knight
10 March 2010
Trades Council demo unites Brighton fightback
"THEY SAY cut back, we say fight back" was the chant that roared through the streets of Brighton on Saturday as over 600 working class trade union activists, socialists and campaigners brought the city's streets to a standstill, writes Peter Knight, Brighton Socialist Party.
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