A Bright Future: Futures of Socialism by Grace Blakeley
Image credit: Jurriaan Persyn - Creative Commons In just under a year, progressive movements across the Anglosphere have received some crushing defeats. First came electoral crises, with the wipe-out result…
What Labour needs to become in 2018
Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Photo credit: flickr Andy Miah Creative Commons license: If the tragedies and betrayals replete throughout Labour history could be summed up in common phrases,…
Media In Times of Corbynism
Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the Stop Trident rally at Trafalgar Square on Saturday 27th February 2016. Photo by Garry Knight, public domain. (more…)
I’ve joined Labour. There’s never been a better time for Green socialists to do so too.
This article is part of Bright Green's 'Labour or Green?' series- if you'd like to contribute to this series, please send a draft to A few months ago, I resigned…
Eco-socialism on one island: why the Isle of Eigg shows us the way forward
Picture courtesy of: Flickr / Graham Lewis The sand beneath my feet is squeaking as I tread upon it. The water crashing against the shore is turquoise and clear. In…
Eleven reasons socialists in Scotland are voting Green
More and more socialists in Scotland have joined, got involved in, and decided to vote for the Scottish Green Party. Here are eleven reasons why. 1) Greens believe in democratising…
Die Grünen – 20 years past the crossroads
The German Greens - changing with the times. Photo by Michael Reuter The German Green Party, or to give it its full name, Alliance ’90/The Greens (Bündis 90/Die Grünen), deserves…
The Champagne Socialist Fallacy
Glasses of champagne. Photo: Lionel Allorge, via Wikimedia Commons. ‘Champagne socialist,’ ‘limousine liberal’, or my personal favourite ‘bourgeois bohemian’ are equivalent accusations aimed at people who advocate socialist thought, while…
The Labour Party has never lived up to its ‘socialist’ dream
This article is part of a 'Green vs Labour' series on Bright Green. Here, Jen Izaakson and Ross Speer reply to James McAsh's argument that socialists should work within the…
Left Unity is an Opportunity Greens Can’t Afford to Ignore
By Josiah Mortimer It’s a question many Greens are asking themselves – whether to put their names to the Left Unity project, the nascent party which has thus far seen…