Ten successes already in the bag at #Lab18
For all the uproar around a couple of specific issues, Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which still has two days to run, has already seen a number of successes for […]
Tag Archives: Brighton
Leaked Brighton email exposes shameless right-wing hypocrisy and questionable resource use
Over the last few days, Labour’s hard right in Brighton has mounted an attack campaign on social media against prospective left candidates in the selections for the next set of […]
Unite conference accepts Wadsworth issue onto debate agenda
Against expectations, the required forty-nine delegates have supported a move to include the issue of veteran black activist Marc Wadsworth for debate at the Unite union’s conference taking place now […]
JVL’s Secker’s Labour suspension lifted after just five days – with no apology
Last Wednesday, Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) Secretary Glyn Secker received a shock letter from the Labour Party advising him that he was being suspended for “comments made on social […]
SEVENTEEN homeless people died in 2017, average age only 46 – just in Brighton
Comment The Argus reported last week the shocking fact that – just in Brighton – seventeen homeless people died in 2017. At an average age of just forty-six. These poor people were […]
SKWAWKBOX 2017 in review: exclusives, narratives, impact and more
It’s been quite a year. At the beginning of 2017, the SKWAWKBOX was a relatively unknown publication that had made enough splashes since its reboot in late summer 2016 to […]
Guest post: Reporting from the front-line of kind politics
Mara Leverkuhn is a Romanian living in Britain. She wrote this article after the close of last week’s Labour conference in Brighton. This past week, like acid house in 1991, […]
After Brighton, where next? A reality check in Manchester by Sarah Henney
In another great guest post, well-known Labour activist Sarah Henney talks about her experience of Sunday’s ‘Take Back Manchester’ protest and its wider significance following Labour’s hugely positive conference last […]
A conference for the many, not the few. By Sarah Henney
By Sarah Henney I only decided to go to Brighton at short notice after realising with about ten days to go that there was no way I couldn’t be there. […]
Exclusive video: Corbyn tells CWU – no apology for our links to 3m TU members
On Monday evening, Jeremy Corbyn spoke to a gathering of CWU (Communication Workers’s Union) activists in Brighton – and received the now-usual raucous welcome. Corbyn talked of upturning expectations and […]