All Around the UK subcategories:
UK Towns and cities keywords:
Brighton
Filter by importance | All results
4 March 2020
Labour councils miss opportunity to stop Tory cuts
In the same week at the end of February, three Labour councils in the south - Brighton, Reading and Southampton - had an opportunity to use Labour's strongholds in southern England to rally opposition to further Tory austerity and set no-cuts budgets to defend jobs and services.
27 November 2019
Brighton anti-academy campaign steps up
Over 100 parents, children, trade unionists and other supporters from the local community were on the picket line outside Moulsecoomb Primary School, Brighton on 21 November.
11 September 2019
Socialist newspaper sales round-up
Just some of the sales of the Socialist newspaper in the past few days...
Socialist Party member Janet Gibson advertising NSSN conference at a protest of steel construction workers outside a Siemans factory in Lincoln
31 May 2019
A speaker at the youth climate change protest in Newcastle, 21.6.19, photo by Elaine Brunskill
Climate change protesters in Newcastle, 24 March 2019, photo by Elaine Brunskill
16 November 2018
Climate change protest in London on 12.4.19, photo Mary Finch
10 October 2018
First coordinated catering and courier strike whets workers' appetite for action
Workers at several branches of McDonald's, Wetherspoon and TGI Fridays have struck together, joined by couriers for Uber Eats and other gig economy workers #FFS410
26 September 2018
Hospitality workers coordinate historic strike
Workers in McDonald's, TGI Fridays and Wetherspoon are fighting low pay.
22 August 2018
Huge but chaotic Brighton Pride needs to be politicised
Members of Brighton Socialist Party attended Brighton Pride on 4 August. Although it is the UK's biggest Pride event, drawing in more than 400,000 people this year, in recent years it has been largely depoliticised.
30 May 2018
Conference 2018: members ready to fight to end pay misery
Delegates massively voted to proceed to a strike ballot
7 February 2018
Bernie's book shows need for workers' party
Non-fiction: Our Revolution: This book 'Our Revolution' by Bernie Sanders is a bestseller which charts his campaign for the Democratic nomination. He is scrupulous in making it clear it was grassroots activists that made this possible.
21 December 2017
Housing victory for Sussex students
Success has been achieved with regard to the Sussex university student accommodation dispute at high rent Kings Road Hall near Brighton seafront
13 December 2017
Academic staff at the University of Brighton who walked out to defend two members of staff threatened with redundancy on 23 and 24 November have won
29 November 2017
Brighton Uni lecturers strike against job cuts
A lunchtime walkout preceded a full day of action, after a magnificent 85% vote in favour of striking against forced redundancies
6 September 2017
Strike together for better pay
NSSN lobby of TUC 10 September: This summer has seen a wave of strikes. Now we need determined coordinated action across the public sector to smash the pay cap and fight for a £10 an hour minimum wage for all
29 March 2017
Deliveroo riders in Leeds are celebrating the reinstatement of two riders who were sacked and the reinstatement of the regular hours of five other riders
8 March 2017
Deliveroo cedes ground in Brighton dispute
Deliveroo has ceded ground to its workers in Brighton by imposing a recruitment freeze so that existing cyclists and scooter riders don't see their hours diminish further. This is in the face of pressure exerted by the strike of 14 February and a petition signed by over 20,000 people.
22 February 2017
Socialist Party members attended the Unison Women's conference in Brighton on 16-18 February, selling a dozen copies of the Socialist paper. Mia Hollsing, a national executive candidate for Wales, spoke calling for nationalisation of public transport to ensure safe travel for women and all passengers.
15 February 2017
Ultimatum as Deliveroo drivers down tools in Brighton
Online food delivery company Deliveroo has come under fire in Brighton, where nearly 100 of its workers downed tools during busy Saturday trading
8 February 2017
Short reports on some of the latest trade union struggles including DWP closures, Picturehouse strike and Deliveroo walkout.
4 January 2017
It's one world for the super-rich, and another one for the rest of us. Tory MP spends £25 million on new property; student loan shark takes advantage of Christmas poverty.
Search entire database:
LATEST POSTS
6 Apr Nottingham Socialist Party: After the Labour leadership result - Do we need a new workers' party?
8 Apr Hackney & Islington Socialist Party: How can climate change be stopped?
9 Apr Waltham Forest Socialist Party: Liverpool - a city that dared to fight
9 Apr East London Socialist Party: The role of the Socialist newspaper during the coronavirus crisis
CONTACT US
Phone our national office on 020 8988 8777
Email: info@socialistparty.org.uk
Locate your nearest Socialist Party branch Text your name and postcode to 07761 818 206
Regional Socialist Party organisers:
Eastern: 079 8202 1969
East Mids: 077 3797 8057
London: 07748 534 891
North East: 078 4114 4890
North West 079 5437 6096
South West: 077 5979 6478
Southern: 078 3368 1910
Wales: 079 3539 1947
West Mids: 024 7655 5620
Yorkshire: 077 0671 0041
ABOUT US
ARCHIVE
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999