From Mike Benfield to Jo Bird: 50 years of the Green Party
The Green Party has just had its fiftieth birthday, I am not sure if there was a cake but there was a party for the party. The three remaining founder…
The 1976 heatwave is a right wing distraction from climate action
Being less than young I remember the summer of 1976, baking hot for months, reservoirs running dry and our lawn slowly but surely turning brown. 1976 is now part of…
Ecological action at the local level: Lessons for newly elected Councillors
Politics is often seen as exclusively about winning elections. I think a little more emphasis on the practicalities of being a Councillor would be useful. To see electoral politics as…
A very brief history of left wing factions in the Green Party
Every serious student of Green Party history surely has a David Taylor file. Looking at mine I found documents about Green CND and an interview with David from ‘New Radiator’,…
The Green Party leadership candidates need to get serious about strategy
I have been working through my archive of old Green/Ecology Party materials this weekend. I have Ecology Party National Executive minutes from the 1970s, copies of Green World from the…
From South Wales to Philadelphia: sowing the seeds of revolutionary change
The future for Britain looks bleak, and opportunities for positive transformation appear blocked. My argument is that base building, by which I mean militant and practical community action, provides a…
Why Greens should be learning from Leninism
Nina Simone discussing her early life and friendships noted, "We never talked about men or clothes. It was always Marx, Lenin or Revolution - real girls' talk". Do Greens talk…
Beyond Politics or beyond parody?
Last week the offices of Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Amnesty International and Christian Aid were all attacked. Pink paint was thrown over their facades, with a new organisation ‘Beyond…
Green Party international coordinators must challenge the Mexican Greens
The International Coordinator position is one of the most hotly contested post on the Green Party of England and Wales executive. This time around members have four choices: Alice Hubbard…
Where next for the green left after Corbyn?
Keir Starmer’s victory is bluntly put a set back for the left. Since 2010, politics has been transformed with the once dominant neoliberalism of figures like Tony Blair, apparently, on…