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…
Here’s why David Cameron should do community service
By Stuart Roger Phew! Thank God that’s over. 100 hours of community service for disrupting a speech David Cameron was giving in Scotland, as an act of protest against his…
Green World is right not to run adverts for Population Matters
Someone isn't happy. Here at Bright Green towers, we received a pretty miffed email from a member of the Green Party complaining about the party magazine - Green World. They…
The way the economic wind blows and what it means for the left
With employment increasing, is the economic crisis nearing an end? or are we heading for triple dip recession as manufacturing and exports shrink? Will the economy be on the mend…
This conference could establish the Greens as the party of the left
The Green Party of England and Wales’ Spring Conference looks set to be a radical one. In just a couple of weeks’ time – and on the Greens’ 40th ‘birthday’…