Remain and reform – or rejoin: Gulnar Hasnain for London Green European election candidate
Image credit: Gulnar Hasnain As the government continues its negotiations over Brexit - both with the European Union and the UK parliament - the possibility of the UK participating in…
The death of green growth
Image credit: Creative Commons: Kamiel79 Human beings are optimistic. Maybe we have to be, in order to keep going. One illustration of that optimism is the notion of green Growth.…
London’s battle against Heathrow expansion
Image credit: Creative Commons, tataquax Heathrow – Londoners don’t want expansion or to be overflown by thousands more noisy and polluting planes, but the Government keeps pushing for it. Despite…
Building hegemony for climate justice – tales from Sheffield
Image via Chris Saltmarsh Climate change is happening now. It requires urgent action. Increasingly, it is apparent that only socialists have the ideas and the organisation to lead us out…
Hot air – the failure of the climate change debate
For the first time in two years on the 28th February 2019 Parliament debated climate change. After over 2,000 schoolchildren went on strike in Oxford, one of its two MPs,…
Greens will be woke or we will be broke
Do you remember 2015? For the first time in nearly 30 years Greens, we were ‘woke’. We caught the imagination of the public, particularly young people, with bold policies on…
To truly change politics, the House of Lords has got to go
Creative Commons: vgm8383 There is “one practical question: where does power lie…how can it be attained by the workers?” Nye Bevan, 1952, ‘In Place of Fear’ For too long, Westminster’s…
5 ways the Greens should respond to the Labour Party’s split
via YouTube Screengrab Today, what many had been predicting for some time happened. The cold war in the Labour Party became hot, as seven Labour MPs resigned their membership, and…
6 things we learned at “Building a Green New Deal for the Many”
Via YouTube Screengrab The Green New Deal has taken US politics by storm, propelled into the mainstream by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Sunrise Movement. Inspired by its transatlantic traction, members…
Resisting exploitation and building power: the Deliveroo workers fighting back
Creative Commons: Steve Eason Until the mid-20th Century, workers on dockyards faced a precarious and bleak existence with no job security. Instead of being contracted for regular hours, dock workers…