Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish elections – a guide for Greens
By Adam Ramsay and Peter McColl This Thursday, 3 new Governments will be elected in the UK. Yes, you read right, 3 countries in Britain are electing their governments this…
Fire Brigades Union funds Green Party MSP’s campaign
The following press release has just come from the Scottish Green Party election campaign: The FBU today confirmed a donation of £500 to Patrick Harvie's campaign for re-election as Glasgow's…
Battle of the Plaids
A guest post by Welsh Green Matt Townsend After a year of working towards the Welsh election, we are now on the final sprint. In less than a week we…
Mass Facebook purge of activist groups
Facebook seems to have taken the chance of the distraction during the royal wedding to delete around 50 activist groups. The list of groups removed has been compiled by the…
Thought Police
Look, I'm not going to tell you what to think about the Royal Wedding. Telling you what to think is the police's job: Let me make it clear. This is…
The Battle of #StokesCroft
This eyewitness account first appeared on Neurobonkers. At the top in bold is a comment on the events. Below is an account of what happened last night. I was dismayed…
Class Activism
I wanted to write a response to the previous article about the anti cuts movement because frankly, I'm obsessed with class (I can't even make a curry without wittering on…
On class and the anti-cuts movement
The class war has spread to the 'anti-cuts' movement. I suppose it was inevitable. After decades of watching wages stagnate, and economic inequality widen, the chickens are now coming home…
Police PR departments & protest
Police in Bristol have tonight arrested a number of people who they say were squatting a building in Stokescroft. There has been a long running squat on Cheltenham Road in…
Film: Green Party of Northern Ireland election broadcast
Presented by the lovely Green Party NI leader Steve Agnew, the Northern Irish Greens broadcast is an intro to green economics - 'economics for people and planet'.