Is this the future of party funding?
Plymouth Green Party has had significant success with crowdfunding. We all know the facts about parties. Most of their memberships are declining, and with falling subs they’re more and more…
‘Invite the Greens’ petition hits 200,000 signatures
As things stand UKIP's Nigel Farage will participate in TV General Election debates but the Green's Natalie Bennett will not. Image: BBC. The petition demanding the major broadcasters invite the…
Young Greens elect new team via groundbreaking national online ballot
Young Greens Co-chairs Siobhan MacMahon and Clifford Fleming will be joined by a new committee 2013-14. Image: YGEW The Young Greens, the youth branch of the Green Party of England…
Why I’ve complained to House of Commons Library
I’ve just written to the House of Commons Library over their recent publication ‘Membership of UK politics parties‘, released on Tuesday. It’s a highly interesting document that myself and other…
Young Greens plan week of action against university pay inequality
The Young Greens are planning actions at campuses across the country as part of a national week of action against pay inequality at UK universities. The youth branch of the…
Cornwall Council’s offensive newsletter: ‘pay your rent before it’s spent’
Something pretty disturbing and offensive came through the door of my parents’ council flat on Christmas eve. It was Cornwall Council’s seemingly innocuous winter housing newsletter to all council tenants…
9 Thoughts on Left Unity and its Founding Conference
Saturday saw the launch of a new left-wing political party in Britain – Left Unity. I won’t attempt to report on it, as I wasn’t there (nor did I want…
Lecturers and university staff in first UK-wide joint strike over pay
This piece originally appeared in Nouse, the University of York's student newspaper. Thousands of lecturers and non-academic staff will go on strike over pay on Thursday 31st October, after members…
Next month’s Autumn Conference could solidify the Greens’ place on the left
The 13th-16th September will see hundreds of Greens from across the country descend on Brighton for the party’s Autumn Conference. And from the look of what’s made the final agenda,…
Greens: a middle-class party? Think again
Josiah Mortimer is a student and Green Party activist based in York. Follow him at @josiahmortimer Green Party members. A bunch of humous-eating, London-dwelling, middle-class, Masters-holding Guardian-readers. That’s the stereotype…