NHS Surcharge for Migrants: the latest slide on the slippery slope to full American-style privatisation
Image: Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. When news was announced last week that the government was introducing a new NHS surcharge for incoming migrants, I saw several friends posting…
How the spectacle of politics is running the day
Photo by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia Has politics lost all sense of reality, creating a spectacle at the expense of public voices? On Sunday whilst walking through Hyde Park I…
UKIP on the Thames estuary. A worrying trend.
Riverside Grays. Image: Andy Howell I'm the Green prospective parliamentary candidate for Mid Sussex 2015; I wasn’t born here though. Life began for me in Thurrock, Essex, in the same…
Greens: It’s time to hunker down
Source: This week, the Green parties of the UK will likely pass 70,000 members. That’s no mean feat. But it will mean little if those people don’t kick into gear…
Party consumerism: what it is and how we defeat it
Speakers on May Day 2012 in Trafalgar Square, London. Image: Jaggers, Flickr. The rise of consumerism over the past century shows the overwhelming power of capital. Not content with determining…
My university is trying to ban me from protesting – because they know it works
'This protest is about students reclaiming possession of education, rejecting cuts and defending our right to protest. We will not be silenced.' Photo: Shelly Asquith Almost a month ago, I…
There’s no community without common unity
Matthew Torbitt, independent candidate for Cheadle My name is Matthew. I am a 24 year old that is very tired and fed up of the political system we have currently…
The Greens have a better chance of being in power than the Tories…
One thing has been clear over the past couple of weeks - the polls have shifted in Labour's favour. Miliband's ratings are going up after the leader's debate and pledges…
‘Without college funding, there’s not going to be any reason to fight for other causes’ – interview with Shakira Martin, candidate for NUS VP Further Education
In the second of a series of interviews with some of the left-wing candidates for NUS leadership, William Pinkney-Baird interviews Shakira Martin, standing for VP Further Education. ‘We’re screaming that…
“Social and environmental justice are inseparable” – Norwich South’s candidate Lesley Grahame
London Green Left's Mike Shaughnessy talks to the Green Party's Cllr Lesley Grahame, Parliamentary candidate for the Greens' target constituency of Norwich South. This interview is reposted from LGL's blog…