With Labour selling out trade unions, Greens must strengthen our support for their struggles
The last few days have underlined something we have known for a long time. An increasingly right-wing Labour Party leadership, bent on marginalising factional opponents and appeasing the billionaire-owned press,…
Zack Polanski would use his platform as Green Party deputy leader to support trans liberation
I wasn’t alive in the 1980s. I don’t remember the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, or the millions of global deaths due to a public health approach tarnished by homophobia.…
The Green League: Who are the Greens with the biggest social media following? – July 2022
Every month Bright Green takes a look at Greens on social media, breaking down who in the UK’s Green Parties have the most followers with a rolling league table. We…
The 1976 heatwave is a right wing distraction from climate action
Being less than young I remember the summer of 1976, baking hot for months, reservoirs running dry and our lawn slowly but surely turning brown. 1976 is now part of…
The Green Party needs to overhaul its policy on SEND education
As co-chair of the Young Greens of England and Wales, but even more so as an undergraduate student, I am acutely aware of the issues facing the higher education sector.…
How the Green Party can better communicate with its members
Green Party members are active throughout England and Wales campaigning for environmental and social justice, standing in elections, and serving the residents of the areas they are elected to represent.…
What does the ‘Contracts for Difference’ scheme mean for the UK’s energy sector?
On Thursday 7 June, as Johnson's government was in its undignified death throes, one of it’s major success was being unveiled to the world. The results of an auction for…
Greens must back striking British Airways workers to build the coalition we need for a just transition
A quiet revolution is underway. Across two weeks and through three days of industrial action by the RMT trade union, the British public may have rediscovered what it feels like…
The Young Greens must be the hotbed of political education within the Green Party
The Young Greens is the youth and student wing of the Green Party of England and Wales. This summer, members of the Young Greens will be voting to elect a…
Remembering Charlie Kiss: 1965-2022
The following article is the text of a reading Caroline Russell gave at Charlie Kiss' funeral, published with her permission. Charlie moved to Islington specifically to be a council candidate…