Caroline’s Speech: we are ready to fight these cuts
Lucas slams cuts and privitisation Caroline Lucas has addressed Green Party spring conference today by slamming the government over spending cuts and privatisation. Calling the Green Party "the true opposition…
Conference Preview and Highlights
This will be the third Green Party of England and Wales conference I've covered for Bright Green, and (I think) the sixth I'll have attended. It already looks like it…
Bright Green (not just Scotland)
Exciting times here at Bright Green. First, as you may have noticed, we've got a sexy new re-design courtesy of our very own Gary Dunion. The categories along the top…
The vulnerability of power – on Gaddafi, Mubarak, and the USA
The vulnerability of power always amazes us. When the icons of strength crumble, we are forever astonished. From the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet Union to the fall…
10 years of the G8 hiding from the people
By Matthew Parsons In keeping with the trend of recent meetings of the G8, this year’s summit is being held in the obscure, albeit luxurious, town of Deauville, Normandy –…
US Uncut – James Meredith didn’t sit quietly, and neither can we
Carl Gibson is the founder of US Uncut and CIVIL USA, the US Uncut chapter in Jackson, Mississippi. On the night before James Meredith was admitted to the University of…
Planet Wasting Corporate Pirates
The piece by Brian Davey first appeared at Bella Caledonia Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World, By Nicholas Shaxson, Bodley Head Shaxson’s book “Treasure Islands”…
The cynical ‘Big Society’ lie
By Rupert Read I have just watched Simon Hughes MP on television saying that there 'of course' have to be cuts to voluntary services at a time of large-scale government cuts.…
US Uncut is born
Carl Gibson is the founder of CIVIL USA - the first of what we hope will be many US Uncut groups. Visit the CIVIL USA website, and follow the campaign…
We remember, Mr Cameron
I was asked to write a post for UKUncut on the new campaign on banks. This was it. "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against…