Portsmouth author and socialist activist Pete Adams campaigned nearly every day in the 2017 and 2019 general elections for Stephen Morgan. He got to know Stephen and liked him, but he now suspects he was [… read more ]
In December 2021, Portsmouth political blogger Pariah Garrie was one of perhaps up to a thousand people across the UK to be expelled from the Labour Party as part of the Starmer leadership’s clampdown on members expressing support [… read more ]
By Pete Adams Silly Billy Was Billy silly? Billy felt silly. He believed he was a socialist and a committed anti-racist and was now being called an anti-Semite because the Labour Party said so – [… read more ]
At the end of September, education charity Think Global brought together a range of organisations based in Portsmouth and beyond, to discuss the potential of ‘social and solidarity economy’ for transforming local communities around the [… read more ]
When Angus Geddes, a member of the Portsmouth & South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign, was visiting the eastern seaboard of Canada in 2015, the story of the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia caught [… read more ]
By Sameen Farouk How many of us can remember where we were on September 11th or July 7th? From now on we must remember where we were on November 13th too. Many communities around the [… read more ]
The newly formed Portsmouth Green Party presents Journeys for peace, an evening with author and journalist Rory O’Keefe and peace activist and author Angie Zelter, at Friendship House on 26th October at 7pm. In the aftermath of [… read more ]
Angus Geddes of the Portsmouth & South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign calls for an end to Portsmouth’s ties with a corporation that is complicit in crimes against humanity. On 27th March 2015, Britain called on Israel to [… read more ]
Jenifer Flintoft of the Portsmouth and South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSDPSC) writes about the recent work of the local campaign and the group’s forthcoming events. PSDPSC is an active group of local people aiming [… read more ]
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