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What happened to the Green Party of 2015?
Anti-Austerity Green bloc in 2015. Image via Alan Stanton, Creative Commons. The Green Party of England and Wales are the only political party I have ever joined. I signed up…
FREEING EDUCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #5
Photo Credit: Rowan Gavin It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united…
GPEW at the Global Congress – What was achieved?
Left to right: Aimee Challenor, Vera Van Gool, Jess Northey|Courtesy of Jessica Northey Earlier this month the Green Party of England and Wales helped host the Global Greens…
Yemen Civil War: another tale of two factions
View image | Yemen is in a state of civil war, more than three-thousand people have died, and the country is divided roughly in half between two factions both claiming…
Radical roots: liberation theology
Jewish Passover and Christian (Catholic and Protestant) Easter are celebrated today, whilst Christian Orthodox Easter occurs next weekend, and on 8 April (Wednesday) is International Roma Day. All these festivals in…
The documentary about Romanians that sparked protests in the UK
On March 3, British TV Channel 4 aired the final episode of its three-part documentary The Romanians Are Coming, the story of several Romanian immigrants in the UK as told…
Showing race equality the green light
Are road accidents a 'race' issue? Nearly 50 years ago in Oakland, California, a political movement ran one of its earliest campaigns on this topic – protesting against a set…
Romanian diaspora raises a cup of tea for democracy
Image: Adriana Neagoe A centre-right candidate may not be everyone's cup of tea, but the results of the recent Romanian elections can leave many of us smiling all the same.…
Hong Kong is Occupied – but what comes next?
Hong Kong, with its gleaming skyscrapers and an economy relatively unscathed by the 2008 global crash, is the poster boy of free market capitalism. Since its handover back to its…
The Security Dilemma, The Media and the Israeli Bombardment
At the time I write this, 90 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, to no Israelis killed by Gazan rockets. There is plenty of moral indignation…