Note: The parts in bold have only been added after the election. The overwhelming bulk of this was written on the 21st of November, 2019, a full 20 days before election day. However this election ends, two questions will surely face Peoples Momentum in the weeks and months immediately following…

Young people aren’t joining unions. And that is a very bad thing. The issues around how and why this came to be the case have been analysed to death. Thatcher’s neoliberal revolution birthing “Thatcher’s Children” who supposedly viewed trade unions negatively; changes in the value systems of the young compared…

Until last week, one would probably have thought it uncontroversial to say that the city council should give nothing but their unremitting support to the young people of the Youth Strikes movement. But here come the local Tories to create a debate where they really ought to be none. In…

Winning power will surely require much more than passing strongly-worded motions, or signing unto open letters…, however important all those things may be. — Brighton and Hove Momentum’s AGM is taking place at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 16th July, at Community Base. If you’re not already a Momentum member, please join here if you want to attend. I just wanted to take a few minutes to explain to you the special importance of tomorrow’s AGM…

…and why you should vote to support my nomination at your CLP’s GC — My name is Johnbosco Nwogbo, and I would appreciate your support and vote for my nomination for a seat on the South East Regional Board. I am Nigerian, and I am studying toward a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sussex. I have been a member of the Labour…

My four criteria — The process of selecting Labour party candidates for next year’s Local government election in Brighton and Hove, has entered the crucial stage where ordinary members of the party choose the candidates they want representing them next year. The number of applicants, from what I hear, was healthy, and for the…

MEDIA COVERAGE OF PUBLIC PROTECTOR’S PROPOSAL: ALL FLUFF, LITTLE SUBSTANCE So the Public Protector Adv. Busisiwe Mkhwebane has decided not to oppose a court challenge to the constitutionality of her proposal to parliament to amend the constitution in order to slightly change the South African Reserve Bank’s Charter. It is…

It would be a mistake to treat the student protests that began in South Africa in 2015, and which had as their primary demand the scraping of all tuition fees at public universities, as a string of isolated incidents. In my view, this student movement is not unlike many of…

To be clear I want Keith Ellison to become DNC chair. I think he would take the Democrats in the direction they need to go in order to effectively counter Trump and the Republicans going forward. This election has shown that Americans want to topple the current system in which…