Green Left welcomes confirmation that the Green
Party group is now the largest grouping on Brighton & Hove City Council.
We
urge our Green councillors there to work closely now with other socialists,
Trade Unionists and community groups against austerity in Brighton – including
those who no longer feel that the Labour Party is aligned with their core
values.
A united
campaign has an opportunity to introduce coherence into the Council’s
pandemic response in a way that recognises the disproportionate impacts on
low-paid citizens, BAME communities, women and other marginalised groups.
This is also the time to start rebuilding services, to pursue local-first
procurement policies and other measures aimed at creating low carbon jobs and
to support the creation of workers’ cooperatives.
A
movement of those with a shared recognition that the roots of social injustice
and the roots of the climate crisis are one and the same can make Brighton a
beacon for an ecosocialist approach
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