Greens: a middle-class party? Think again
Josiah Mortimer is a student and Green Party activist based in York. Follow him at @josiahmortimer Green Party members. A bunch of humous-eating, London-dwelling, middle-class, Masters-holding Guardian-readers. That’s the stereotype…
It's up to the Greens to take down UKIP
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the next few years we shall either get that effective Socialist party that we need, or we shall not get it. If we do not get it, then Fascism…
Online survey shows Green Party has most popular policies
This should be old news by now. Once more, the excellent folk at 'Vote For Polices' have produced a survey encouraging people to do a blind comparison of their beliefs…
Watch the Greens’ thrillingly unapologetic, socialist broadcast
The Green Party of England and Wales has just released this quietly barnstorming broadcast for the local elections on 2 May: It's the clearest and most explicit proclamation of the…
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…