Campaigns

It was a case of ‘Welcome to the real world’ for Lambeth’s Green Party councillors at their public budget consultation event on 15 October.

Around 200 people attended the national anti-austerity summit hosted by Hackney’s new Green council on 9 September. From a show of hands, roughly a third of those gathered were councillors.

A massive water main had erupted earlier in the week, turning one street into a raging torrent, flooding people’s homes, while Thames Water is imposing a hosepipe ban. So, on our Socialist Party campaign stall, we used the petition calling for nationalising water and energy.

The Greens swept into power in Hackney promising to “start the fightback” against Labour austerity, but a socialist council, representing workers and youth, could take a different course: building council homes and creating jobs.

London youth unemployment stands at one in four. Newham, in East London, has the second highest of all London boroughs. Schools are chronically underfunded after years of vicious Tory and Labour cuts. Unis are no different.

Hackney Socialist Party has organised three socialist ‘park sales’ this summer, sometimes instead of our normal Saturday Socialist Party campaign stall. It has been very successful.

150,000 people marched, according to London Trans+ Pride organisers. The huge number is not surprising, given the Supreme Court ruling being used to attack trans people and others.

Campaigners in Newham have secured a significant victory in their efforts to ensure council workers’ pension funds are not invested in companies linked to war, occupation, or human rights abuses.

Thousands of people from all across Britain gathered in Parliament Square, London, in solidarity with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.