To make the most of the #GreenSurge, we need to discuss party organisation
Three things will shape how the Green Party continues to organise and campaign. The Labour leadership result, how we make the most of the Green Surge, and how we align…
Faith changes everything – the missing element in climate activism
Photo by Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik The sorrowful facts are all too familiar. Our ecosystems are being destroyed. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent and more destructive. Emissions of greenhouse gases…
RISE and the Greens must work together, and here’s how
Radical Independence campaigners including Scottish Greens at the Lothians region count of the 2014 referendum. Photo: Ric Lander This week, a new political group is coming together in Scotland. RISE…
Rupert Read: Dear Greens, here’s how to remain distinct from a Corbyn-led Labour
View image | In an open letter to Green Party supporters, Rupert Read takes a detailed look at why the Greens need to articulate a distinctive message to a Corbyn-led Labour…
Gravely disappointed with the white moderate? You may have a point.
President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., after handing him one of the pens used in signing the Civil Rights Act of July 2, 1964…
#SGPconf: motion opposes discrimination of Gypsies and Travellers
"My Home". Photograph by Tara Darby; graffiti by Delaine Le Bas. Trailer at Delaine's Mum and Dad's place West Sussex 2005. From ROOM Transition Editions produced for solo exhibition by…
The #LabourPurge exposes a Labour Party afraid of democracy
In the USA in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy (shown) led a campaign in which thousands of Americans were accused of being communist infiltrators, on the basis of largely unsubstantiated…
We need rent controls to fight poverty – and climate change
Photo: Living Rent Campaign This article was written under a pseudonym. In 1988, Margaret Thatcher scrapped rent controls for the Private Rented Sector (PRS) – laws limiting the amount landlords…
A Green hierarchy of needs—time to prioritise?
Photo: William Pinkney-Baird. So many newspaper stories about the Greens, but it's always the zany ones people remember: ban cars, ban the Grand National, ban Beyonce. These were the favourites that…
Jeremy Corbyn, here’s how to address climate change like an anti-capitalist
View image | It is in a comradely manner, as a socialist within the Green Party, that I offer some genuine advice to Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign. I watched Jeremy’s speech…