Students fight deportation of NUS Officer for Refugees
Photo courtesy of @Julz2k5 on Twitter. Students across Britain are organising protests demanding the immediate release of fellow student Lord Elias Mensah Apetsi, who faces deportation on Tuesday to Ghana…
Victories worth celebrating: Scotland passes two new laws to rein in property owners
Tenant campaigners at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday. Image: Ric Lander The fourth Scottish Parliament gave its final seal of approval to a new land reform bill and legislation to…
A safe space for the marginalised: Young Greens in Northern Ireland
Aidan Jones is the Chair of Young Greens Northern Ireland Young people are discouraged from politics in Northern Ireland. Not that that's isolated to the region: across the world you'll…
Why do we celebrate International Women’s Day?
Photo: Sisters Uncut Alys Mumford is the Co-convenor of the Edinburgh Green Party and a list candidate for the Lothian region. She works at Engender, Scotland's feminist membership organisation. This…
International Women’s Day: the one day in the year to celebrate women
A Soviet stamp from 1949, celebrating International Women's Day. Jemima Luanga, chair of Young Green Women of Colour, shares what International Women's Day, celebrated every year on 8th March, means…
Green Party of England and Wales furthers LGBTIQA rights at #gpconf Spring 2016
Conference-goers pass 5 motions improving policy to support members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer, and Asexual community. At their Spring Conference, this weekend just past, the Green…
So… What would a reformed EU actually look like?
The EU referendum was, perhaps understandably, at the top of the agenda at Green Party conference in Harrogate this weekend. Greens often talk about the need for democratic reform of…
Is it fair to call Donald Trump a fascist?
Photo by Gage Skidmore. Donald Trump is undoubtedly many things; a racist, a misogynist, a bully, a mediocre business performer, a climate change denier, a conspiracy theorist, a bit weird…
Dates, deals and dilemmas: what are the key factors in the EU referendum?
The hemicycle of the European Parliament. Photo: Wikimedia. We’ve finally been given a deal and a date for the EU referendum, with David Cameron firing the starting pistol on Saturday morning.…
How I fell out of love with Peter Tatchell
Image credit: Creative Commons: Alisdare Hickson I didn’t want to write this article. For a long time, Peter Tatchell was one of my political heroes. Reading about the infamous Bermondsey…