Labour won’t forge a Green New Deal alone
The launch of a grassroots Labour for a Green New Deal group is the latest exciting policy development to come out of the party. It shows the incredible range...
Bright Green relaunch – three months on
A little more than three months ago, Bright Green was relaunched. I wrote at the time about the need for radical media outlet that could help contribute to and...
From South Africa to Burundi, colonialism is alive and well in the mining industry
Platinum is a white-silver metal, it’s unreactive, and rare. Because of this, you can make jewellery out of it and sell it to people who wish to display how...
When it comes to public ownership nothing’s off limits
Neoliberalism is in decay. It has been since the 2008 financial crisis. The Tory-Lib Dem Coalition tried to rehabilitate it under the guise of austerity. But the policy program,...
Anyone seen Jeremy?
Nope! You haven’t heard it wrong. Over a million people have marched in London, on Saturday, March 23, to demand a people’s vote, exactly two years after the Brexit...
Momentum members join fight against Barclays’ fossil fuel funding
Momentum are treading new ground as they launch a new ‘Bankrupting Climate Change’ campaign against Barclays over their funding of fossil fuel companies. Collaborating with student activist network People...
Building hegemony for climate justice – tales from Sheffield
Climate change is happening now. It requires urgent action. Increasingly, it is apparent that only socialists have the ideas and the organisation to lead us out of this crisis....
To truly change politics, the House of Lords has got to go
There is “one practical question: where does power lie…how can it be attained by the workers?” Nye Bevan, 1952, ‘In Place of Fear’ For too long, Westminster’s political system...
5 ways the Greens should respond to the Labour Party’s split
Today, what many had been predicting for some time happened. The cold war in the Labour Party became hot, as seven Labour MPs resigned their membership, and are now...
6 things we learned at “Building a Green New Deal for the Many”
The Green New Deal has taken US politics by storm, propelled into the mainstream by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement. Inspired by its transatlantic traction, members of the...