We’re in danger of forgetting the true cause of unemployment
Protest at Leith Job Centre, July 2013. Image: Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Just how do they get away with it? “Towards full employment” was a slogan the Tories were using…
Sustainable peace in Palestine needs a federal, one-state solution
A divided Jerusalem. Image: Claudius Prößer Yoav Shemer-Kunz is a PhD candidate in political sciences at University of Strasbourg and VU University Amsterdam. In the final article in this short…
Green students set sights on the NUS
Education is in troubled times. From tuition fees being trebled and student support being cut, to loans and EMA being scrapped and ruthless marketisation ravishing academic rigour, students are bearing…
Why I’m voting for the Scottish Greens for the first time on 5th May
Photo: Ric Lander A few years ago, I didn’t have a big opinion on the Greens. I thought they were your average, well-intentioned but a wee bit boring cuddly liberals…
BDS is the only way Israel will take any notice
A checkpoint in Israel's separation wall at Bethlehem in the West Bank, Palestine. Photo: WhiteAnt Rebekah Gronowski is a member of Scottish Jews for a Just Peace. Here she responds…
Tatchell’s reply: “A new left-wing McCarthyism”
Photo courtesy of Peter Tachell In February Bright Green carried a blog by Chris Jarvis of the Norwich Radical entitled "How I fell out of love with Peter Tatchell". This…
Podcast: Sarah Beattie-Smith and Adam Ramsay talk tax
Sarah Beattie-Smith, lead candidate for the Scottish Greens in the South of Scotland, and journalist Adam Ramsay discuss tax in the Scottish Parliament campaign and how green proposals fare up…
The Scottish Greens’ 60p rate and taking inequality seriously
Image: The Scottish Greens have launched their tax proposals today, radically reforming both income tax and local government taxation. The proposals are detailed, and worth looking at in detail –…
New Scottish Greens policy meets the demands of the Palestinian people
Palestinian solidarity protest in Edinburgh, 12 July 2014. Image: Ric Lander Eurig Scandrett is a list candidate for the Scottish Greens in the South of Scotland and helped develop the…
A safe space for the marginalised: Young Greens in Northern Ireland
Aidan Jones is the Chair of Young Greens Northern Ireland Young people are discouraged from politics in Northern Ireland. Not that that's isolated to the region: across the world you'll…