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Education as Emancipation – Beyond Tuition Fees #7

It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...

Syria’s tragedy is in danger of spreading across the Middle East

If the first casualty of war is the truth then a large dose of disinformation has always been its pre-strike call to arms. Within the UK we were...

What’s the message of the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

After 18 movies, 11 TV shows and 5 ‘one-shots’, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally reached the event it has all been leading to: Avengers Infinity War. Featuring...

FREEING EDUCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #5

It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...

To save democracy, we must end capitalism

This article is part of Bright Green’s ‘End of capitalism’ series– if you’d be interested in contributing something to this series, drop us a Facebook message or email...

News

Local Elections 2018

Molly Arthurs and Chris Jarvis3 May 2018No Comment 2018-05-03T20:12:49+00:00

Bright Green will be tracking Green progress in the polls, polling booths and beyond. Catch it all right here from 10:30am on polling day.

Sturgeon speech interrupted by protest against support for oil industry

Bright Green Editors 29 April 2018 No Comment2018-04-30T15:32:33+00:00

Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly claimed that Scotland is a world leader on climate change, but has never reconciled that view with her staunch support for Scotland’s oil industry. That...

Young Greens expose shocking pay disparity on UK campuses

Georgia Elander 30 March 2018 No Comment2018-03-30T15:00:52+00:00

Something transformative is happening across the UK’s universities. Branch meetings of the Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) – which in the past have struggled to attract more than a...

Video: Activists surround Dungavel Detention Centre

Ric Lander and Alys Mumford 22 November 2017 No Comment2017-11-22T17:03:29+00:00

On Saturday 18 November 2017 activists surrounded Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire, calling for an end to the detention of asylum seekers. Video by Ric Lander and Alys...

Green Party writes to Hunt over trans healthcare

Aimee Challenor 15 November 2017 No Comment2017-11-15T02:19:09+00:00

This afternoon Jonathan Bartley and I took a letter to the Department of Health about the delays faced by trans people wanting to access a Gender Identity Clinic....

Green “Debacle” as Austrian Right Returns

Tom Bailey 20 October 2017 1 Comment2017-10-20T14:40:07+00:00

The Austrian Greens have lost all 24 seats in parliament following Sunday’s election after being squeezed by big personalities across the political spectrum. On Thursday the Greens’ worst result...

Comment

With Brexit looming, environmentalists must fight for a robust, codified constituition

Gavin Barker21 May 2018No Comment 2018-05-21T16:51:07+00:00

The right to peaceful protest has been highly effective in the hands of the anti-fracking movement in both stalling the fracking plans of energy firms and in raising...

Sargassum Seaweed is Strangling the Caribbean Coasts, the Latest Example of Climate Chaos

Caroline Stoddard 15 May 2018 No Comment2018-05-15T12:08:47+00:00

Sargassum is sometimes referred to as a “golden floating rainforest”, which seems like an inappropriate moniker at the moment. As rainforests are decimated at an alarming rate this...

A 21st century socialism? ‘Rise’ book review

Bradley Allsop 14 May 2018 No Comment2018-05-14T18:37:57+00:00

The ‘youthquake’ may be considered debunked in some quarters, but not in Liam Young’s optimistic, passionate and unapologetic defense of the Corbyn project. The central argument of his...

Another Higher Education Is Already Here – BEYOND TUITION FEES #8

Sarah Amsler 12 May 2018 1 Comment2018-05-12T12:58:24+00:00

It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...

We Need to Free Our Education From Neoliberal Thinking

Arte Artemiou 7 May 2018 1 Comment2018-05-07T18:06:23+00:00

In the past couple of years, the Government has created a programme with the aim of ‘raising aspirations’ for Higher Education in young people, approaching this in various...

Education as Emancipation – Beyond Tuition Fees #7

Michael Kyriacou 4 May 2018 1 Comment2018-05-04T12:22:09+00:00

It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...