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…
Foreign relations must be central in the EU referendum debate—just ask Turkey
View image | The EU referendum debate has, so far, failed to really get going. We are all having too much fun with a pantomime and increasingly hilarious Labour leadership…
Is it time for the Greens to get clear about Corbyn?
View image | Today is the last day people can register to vote in the Labour leadership contest. So I'm going to say it: the Green Party has been relatively…