Changes in NUS rules have damaged the student movement
A tail of how the dry business of democratic structures can be used to limit debate, and what this means for the progressive left in the student movement - by…
UK Uncut stages bedroom tax protests at Lord Freud and Iain Duncan Smith’s million pound mansions
Hundreds of people are protesting over the bedroom tax and benefits cap at Lord Freud’s £ home and 20 disabled activists are staging a protest at Iain Duncan Smith’s country…
Bedroom Tax Song: You cannae have a spare room in a pokey cooncil flat
In an updated version of the classic Glaswegian protest piece the 'jeely piece song', 'Citizen Smart' has launched this wonderful Bedroom Tax protest song. The original version was written to…
Brighton Council refuses to evict over Bedroom Tax
Green Party controlled Brighton city council has confirmed it will refuse to evict those who cannot afford to pay the 'bedroom tax'. The council is the first in the UK…
Former Northampton Labour MP Tony Clarke joins Green Party
Tony Clarke, former Labour MP for Northampton, has joined the Green Party. Mr Clarke, a one time rebel Labour MP, is now an independent councillor in his city, and stood…
Ell Folan’s speech on the new Green philisophical basis
editors note - there has been some conversation about the change to the Green Party's philisophical basis at this year's Spring Conference which put social justice central. Here is the…
micro-managing the Arab Spring: on NGOs, management, movements, and social change
This is an excerpt from "Anarchists in the board room - how social movements and social media can help your organisation be more like people", by Liam Barrington-Bush. Liam is…
Social Justice at the Heart: Green Party’s Clause 4 Moment at Nottingham Conference 2013
On Friday Britain lost its ‘Triple-A Credit Rating’ as a result of a Westminster Government seeking to reverse all the gains made by working people over the past 170 years.…
What does UEA have against protesters?
By Elliot Folan Earlier this month, the University of East Anglia dropped a disciplinary case against two students for taking part in an anti-tax avoidance protest. I was one of…
We must make EDF regret their choice to sue activists
The powerful win not by convincing the people, but by removing our tools for organising. Mrs Thatcher's great victory was not her privatisations. It was not her cuts, and it…