We need to reach young people beyond our Green bubble and bring them with us
The Young Greens found me at a point where, like countless young people, I felt entirely disenfranchised by the traditional left’s hesitance in addressing the social and environmental justice issues…
The Young Greens should be a home for young progressives
I'm standing for the Young Greens because there are some pretty worrying trends going on at the moment. I want to do the best I can to stop these trends…
The Young Greens should be collaborative, well-rounded and intersectional
I am standing for campaigns officer because I am passionate about this party and I want to see the Young Greens grow and gain strength. Despite a pandemic and lockdowns,…
The Young Greens should be putting forward an unapologetically eco-socialist message
My name is Johann Beckford, and I am standing to be the Young Greens’ next Activist Training and Political Education Officer. I joined the Green Party in 2014 as I…
I want to build a Young Greens activist base that fights capitalism and injustice
Through starting the rent strike at Sheffield Hallam University I’ve been at the front of the fight getting £4 million back in rent for our students exploited by landlords and…
I want to build a strong Young Greens campaigns community to drive election victory
In August 2019, just six months and one non-target election after joining the Green Party, I was selected to spend a weekend at Green Party Campaign School. Mesmerised by the…
The Young Greens are the radical wing of the Green Party – I want it to stay that way
The Young Greens is an organisation that is the reason so many of the current-day Green Party activists got into the position they are today. The Young Greens is an…
What I learnt from the Young Greens lecture series on overthrowing capitalism
With such a compelling title as 'Why capitalism is broken and how we overthrow it", I couldn’t resist watching all four lectures in this insightful political education series presented by…
“There is an alternative” – Young Greens co-chairs speech to Green Party conference
On Friday 5 March 2021, the Young Greens co-chairs Rosie Rawle and Lily Fitzgibbon gave a keynote speech to the Green Party of England and Wales conference, held virtually due…
10 years on from the student revolt, marketisation is still haunting our universities
How can we be in a situation where we are seeing students trapped behind fences on their own campuses? People have rightly reacted with horror, but this is a logical…