Time to stop recognising Mubarak
What is a president? At what point does someone stop being the president? These are complex questions. Who the UK government recognises as the legitimate president of a country is…
How the Irish Greens got into a Coalition mess…
The Irish Greens have finally pulled the plug on the Fianna Fail led Government of the dead that has been staggering from crisis to crisis since the economy collapsed in…
Tunisia’s struggle and ours: battles in the same war
As an anti-cuts campaigner in the UK fighting rises in tuition fees or corporate tax dodging or the closure of a local library or redundancies at a city council or…
100 Days of Solid Ideology
The coalition is 100 days old. And what a hundred days it’s been. They’ve ended the huge waste of building new schools. They’ve said they’ll end detention of children of…
Gillard: Australia’s left-winger for the right?
Australia suddenly got a new Prime Minister on the 24th of June, resident Aussie expert Nishma Doshi agreed to write for Bright Green about her first impressions. It was clear…
Will Obama guaruntee Palestinian security?
So, Barack Obama has said he won't ask Netanyahu to do anything which compromises Israeli security. This initially seems a perfectly reasonable guarantee. But, the obvious question is, will he…
Union News
UCU We'll start with my own union, UCU, who's annual congress happened recently. I couldn't make it myself but as well as attacking the government's points based immigration system and…
Boycott: the strongest political act we have against Israel
On Saturday 5th June, somewhere between 3000 and 5000 people gathered in Edinburgh city centre to protest against the actions of the Israeli State. We were there because we are…
Demolishing Peace in Palestine…Tent by Tent
This piece is by guest writer Ruth Cape “We refuse to be enemies” is the sentiment upon which the ‘Tent of Nations’ project in Palestine is built. Painted on a…
What happened in the Med?
As the sun sets on the Middle East, many will be asking this question. And lots of people much more qualified than me will be trying to explain the strategic…