The Green Party has taken a big step away from democracy
At its most recent conference in Bournemouth, the Green Party of England and Wales adopted a change to its constitution in motion D28 which would allow the party leadership, in…
Why Defunding Military Aid to Ukraine Would Be a Mistake: A Green Defence of Self-Determination
As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, the stakes for democracy, human rights, and global stability have never been higher. Russia’s unprovoked invasion and continued aggression represent a…
How we deliver strategic adaptation for emergency resilience
Humanity’s failure to halt environmental destruction arises principally from a ‘wicked collective action problem.’ A ‘collective action’ problem is a situation where individuals would benefit from working together, but each…
5 things we learnt looking under the bonnet of the Green Party deputy leadership election
This year's Green Party leadership election was a straightforward two horse race between Zack Polanski and the joint ticket of Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay. However, the deputy leadership race…
Why Standing Together shouldn’t be given a platform at Green Party conference
In his recent article, Craig Simmons urges the Green Party not to "ban" Palestinian peace activist Sally Abed from addressing its upcoming conference, warning that doing so would play into…
Banning a Palestinian peace activist from speaking at Green Party conference would be a gift to the Israeli right
The Ancient Greek writer Aeschylus observed that, in war, truth is often the first casualty. However, in the increasingly polarised discourse surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is more likely to…
What does cutting through look like for the Green Party?
There’s been a lot of talk in the leadership and deputy leadership contests about “cutting through”. But what does that mean? What does “cutting through” look like? When we talk…
Liberation groups should be at the heart of Green Party policy
While we're both black, queer and socialists to our core we have very different backgrounds. Ekua is African Irish and a Muslim revert. She was born in Hampshire, spent her…
The Green Party is out of the wilderness. It mustn’t return to it.
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” (George Santayana) My first ever Green Party meeting was nearly 25 years ago, in February 2001. I’d had…
Why Zack Polanski should be the next Green Party leader
In 2010 I stood in two elections on the same day. One was carefully targeted and delivered Surrey’s first Green councillor by 600 votes. The other, a long-shot attempt to…