Trials and tribulations of the Teesside free education campaign (part 1)
Teesside Free Education Campaign Group at the national Free Education Now demo in London last November. In the first installment of our 'WTF is wrong with education?' series, launched with…
Why it’s vital that Greens make our voice heard in the EU referendum
Photo: Wikimedia At the Green Party’s Autumn Conference this past weekend, I stood up and spoke, for the first time, to a mass of assembled party members. I was proposing…
10 things we took away from Green Party Conference
There weren’t many big headlines from this Autumn Green Party conference, which drew to a languid close in sunny Bournemouth on Monday. But it was a mixed bag in the…
#GPconf: Why don’t Black people vote? Q&A with Rashid Nix
Rashid Nix and Samir Jeraj at the 'Why don't Black People vote?' screening, #GPconf. Photo by Violeta Vajda. Q: In the film, made in 2008, people are not interested in…
Corbyn ducks the question: On the EU referendum, Labour and the Greens
How Green is the European cake? Photo by Jeremy Corbyn, new leader of Labour and much-beloved of many bright Greens (though see this view of why we all still have…
Finland – the social contract to wreck the welfare state
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä - everybody's best friend? Photo: Ulkoministeriö Last week, over 30 000 people gathered in the centre of Helsinki, Finland to demonstrate against the Finnish Government's labour…
Beyond a Tin of Food: fighting food poverty with community action
A stall giving away free food set up by Exeter Food Fight, which has inspired South West Young Greens' 'Beyond a Tin of Food' campaign. Photo: Exeter Food Fight More…
Why Greens Should Support Corbyn’s People’s Quantitative Easing
Green Infrastructure QE was the idea of using public money to build highly insulated homes and to convert buildings to be more energy efficient. (Photo: BedZED, the UK's largest eco-village,…
Die Grünen – 20 years past the crossroads
The German Greens - changing with the times. Photo by Michael Reuter The German Green Party, or to give it its full name, Alliance ’90/The Greens (Bündis 90/Die Grünen), deserves…
WTF is wrong with education?
It is hard to sum up succinctly the multitude of problems facing the educational system in the UK. One need only think of trebled tuition fees, removing the caps on…