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State Council of the People's Republic of China
中华人民共和国国务院
Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó Guówùyuàn
Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Agency overview
Formed	27 September 1954
Preceding agency	Government Administration Council of the Central People's Government
Jurisdiction	Government of the People's Republic of China
Headquarters	Zhongnanhai, Beijing
Agency executives	Wen Jiabao, Premier Li Keqiang Hui Liangyu Zhang Dejiang Wang Qishan, Vice-Premiers
Website
http://english.gov.cn

People's Republic of China

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The State Council (simplified Chinese: 国务院; traditional Chinese: 國務院; pinyin: Guówùyuàn), synonymous with the Central People's Government (Chinese: 中央人民政府) since 1954 (particularly in relation to local governments), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China.^[1] It is chaired by the Premier and includes the heads of each governmental department and agency.^[2] Currently, the council has 35 members: the premier, one executive vice premier, three vice premiers, five state councilors (of whom two are also ministers), and 25 additional ministers and chairs of major agencies.^[3] In the politics of the People's Republic of China, the Central People's Government forms one of three interlocking branches of power, the others being the Communist Party of China and the People's Liberation Army. The State Council directly oversees the various subordinate People's Governments in the provinces, and in practice maintains an interlocking membership with the top levels of the Communist Party of China creating a fused center of power.

Organization[link]

The State Council meets once every six months. Between meetings it is guided by a standing committee which meets weekly. The standing committee includes the premier, one executive vice premier, three vice premiers, and five other state councilors (one of whom serves as Secretary General of the State Council, and two of whom concurrently serve as ministers).

The vice-premiers and state councilors are nominated by the premier, and appointed by the president with National People's Congress' (NPC) approval. The premier is nominated and appointed by the president with NPC approval. Incumbents may serve two successive five-year terms.

Each vice premier oversees certain areas of administration. Each State Councilor performs duties as designated by the Premier. The secretary-general heads the General Office which handles the day-to-day work of the State Council. The secretary-general has relatively little power and should not be confused with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.

Each ministry supervises one sector. Commissions outrank ministries and set policies for and coordinate the related activities of different administrative organs. Offices deal with matters of ongoing concern. Bureaus and administrations rank below ministries.

In addition to the 27 ministries, there are 38 centrally administered government organizations that report directly to the state council. The heads of these organizations attend full meetings of the state committee on an irregular basis.

Although the State Council is formally responsible to the NPC and its Standing Committee in conducting a wide range of government functions both at the national and at the local levels, in practice the NPC's authority is rather limited, although it not completely non-existent. The State Council acts by virtue of the NPC's authority and there has been at least one case where the NPC has outright rejected an initiative of the State Council and a few cases where the State Council has withdrawn or greatly modified a proposal in response to NPC opposition.

The State Council and the Communist Party of China are also tightly interlocked. Most of the members of the State Council are high level party members. Although, as party members, they are supposed to follow party instructions, because they tend to be senior members of the party they also have large amounts of influence over what those instructions are. This results in a system which is unlike the Soviet practice in which the Party effectively controlled the state. Rather the party and state are fused at this level of government. The members of the State Council derive their authority from being members of the state, while as members of the Party they coordinate their activities and determine key decisions such as the naming of personnel.

Although there were attempts to separate the party and state in the late 1980s under Zhao Ziyang and have the Party in charge of formulating policy and the State Council executing policy, these efforts were largely abandoned in the early 1990s.

As the chief administrative organ of government, its main functions are to formulate administrative measures, issue decisions and orders, and monitor their implementation; draft legislative bills for submission to the NPC or its Standing Committee; and prepare the economic plan and the state budget for deliberation and approval by the NPC. The State Council is the functional center of state power and clearinghouse for government initiatives at all levels. With the government's emphasis on economic modernization, the State Council clearly acquired additional importance and influence.

The State Council controls the Ministry for National Defense but does not control the People's Liberation Army, which is instead controlled by the Central Military Commission.

Principal officers[link]

Wen I and II Cabinet

Organizational structure[link]

General Office of the State Council[link]

• State Council General Office

Ministries and Commissions under the State Council[link]

1. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2. Ministry of National Defense
3. National Development and Reform Commission
4. Ministry of Education
5. Ministry of Science and Technology
6. State Ethnic Affairs Commission
7. Ministry of Public Security
8. Ministry of State Security
9. Ministry of Supervision
10. Ministry of Civil Affairs
11. Ministry of Justice
12. Ministry of Finance
13. Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
14. Ministry of Land and Resources
15. Ministry of Environmental Protection
16. Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction
17. Ministry of Railways
18. Ministry of Transport
19. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
20. Ministry of Water Resources
21. Ministry of Agriculture
22. Ministry of Commerce
23. Ministry of Culture
24. Ministry of Health
25. National Population and Family Planning Commission
26. People's Bank of China
27. National Audit Office

Special Organization directly under the State Council[link]

• State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)

Organizations directly under the State Council[link]

1. General Administration of Customs
2. State Administration of Taxation
3. State Administration for Industry and Commerce
4. General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine
5. State Administration of Radio, Film and Television
6. General Administration of Press and Publication (National Copyright Administration)
7. State General Administration of Sports
8. National Bureau of Statistics
9. State Forestry Administration
10. State Administration of Work Safety
11. State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO)
12. National Tourism Administration
13. State Administration for Religious Affairs
14. Counselor's Office of the State Council
15. Government Offices Administration of the State Council
16. National Bureau of Corruption Prevention

Administrative Offices under the State Council[link]

1. Overseas Chinese Affairs Office
2. Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office
3. Legislative Affairs Office
4. State Council Research Office

Institutions directly under the State Council[link]

1. Xinhua News Agency
2. Chinese Academy of Sciences
3. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
4. Chinese Academy of Engineering
5. Development Research Center
6. China National School of Administration
7. China Earthquake Administration
8. China Meteorological Administration
9. China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC)
10. China Securities Regulatory Commission
11. China Insurance Regulatory Commission
12. State Electricity Regulatory Commission
13. National Council for Social Security Fund
14. National Natural Science Foundation
15. Taiwan Affairs Office (also as a CPC institution), under CPC Central Committee
16. State Council Information Office (also as a CPC institution), under CPC Central Committee
17. State Archives Administration (also as a CPC institution), under General Office of CPC Central Committee

State Administrations and Bureaus under the Ministries and Commissions[link]

1. State Bureau for Letters and Calls, under General Office of the State Council
2. State Administration of Grain, under National Development and Reform Commission
3. National Energy Administration, under National Development and Reform Commission
4. State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence, under Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
5. State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (China National Tobacco Corporation), under Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
6. State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, under Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
7. State Bureau of Civil Servants, under Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
8. State Oceanic Administration, under Ministry of Land and Resources
9. Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), under Ministry of Transport
10. State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, under Ministry of Land and Resources
11. State Post Bureau, under Ministry of Transport
12. State Administration of Cultural Heritage, under Ministry of Culture
13. State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), under Ministry of Health
14. State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, under Ministry of Health
15. State Administration of Foreign Exchange, under People's Bank of China
16. State Administration of Coal Mine Safety, under State Administration of Work Safety
17. National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets (also as a CPC institution), under General Office of CPC Central Committee
18. State Cryptography Administration (also as a CPC institution), under General Office of CPC Central Committee
19. China National Space Administration, a name resereved by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
20. China Atomic Energy Authority, a name resereved by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
21. State Language Commission, a name resereved by Ministry of Education
22. National Nuclear Safety Administration, a name resereved by Ministry of Environmental Protection

See also[link]

People's Republic of China portal

• Central People's Government (1949-1954)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Organizational structure

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• Fujian People's Government (1933–1934), anti-Kuomintang government in the Fujian Province of the Republic of China
• People's Government of Lithuania (1940), Soviet-backed government to legitimize the Soviet occupation of Lithuania
• Azerbaijan People's Government (1945–1946), Soviet-backed client state in northern Iran
• People's Revolutionary Government (1979–1983), government of Grenada after a revolution by New Jewel Movement

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Li Yuanchao (Chinese: 李源潮, born as 李援朝; pinyin: Lǐ Yuáncháo, born November 1950 in Lianshui County, Huai'an, Jiangsu)^[1] is a prominent politician in the People's Republic of China, serving on the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and as the head of its Organization Department. From 2002-2007 Li served as the Communist Party of China Secretary of Jiangsu, the first-in-charge of an area of significant economic development in recent years. He is considered an incoming figure of China's fifth generation of leadership.

Biography[link]

Li graduated with a bachelor degree in Mathematics at Fudan University and a doctoral degree in Economics at Beijing University. He has held the number-one position in Jiangsu since December 2002. At the time he was also concurrently the party chief in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu. During his tenure in Jiangsu, Li assessed local officials in terms of performance measured by social and environmental factors, as opposed to purely economic ones.^[2] An ally of General Secretary Hu Jintao, Li became the head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China after the 17th Party Congress in October 2007.

Notes[link]

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Roy Sesana
Fields	Traditional medicine man Human rights
Institutions	First People of the Kalahari
Known for	Human rights defender

Roy Sesana (born around 1950 in Molapo, Botswana) is a Bushman activist who works together with the First People of the Kalahari for the rights of his tribe.

Biography[link]

Sesana lives in New Xade in the central Kalahari and works as a traditional medicine man. He moved to South Africa for a couple of years, but returned to his people in 1971 in order to live together with them in the desert. In 1991, he co-founded the First People of Kalahari (FPK) together with John Hardbattle, which intensively promotes the traditional way of life, protecting the nature. In 1997, a small group of Bushmen still living in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve were resettled to the new built town of New Xade. The government claimed that this was a result of a mutual understanding that the continued presence of the group within the reserve was in conflict with the preservation of the game reserve. The government also claimed that it could not provide the group with basic infrastructure and services while they were within the reserve for the same reasons. A group of Bushmen represented by First People of the Kalahari refused to move, citing difficult conditions in the new settlement, the unfamiliar way of life they had to adjust to and many new social ills such as unemployment, alcoholism and diseases, especially HIV-AIDS.

In 2002, the First People of the Kalahari took the Government of Botswana to court to seek the right for the relocated people to return to the reserve. The protracted court case attracted substantial international attention. On December 13, 2006, Botswana's High Court ruled in the Bushmen's favour, stating that the evictions were unlawful and unconstitutional.^[1]

In September 2005, Sesana was arrested for "rioting" and attempting to "forcibly enter the Central Kalahari Game Reserve", but was released a couple of days later.^[2] In December 2005, he received the Right Livelihood Award for "resolute resistance against eviction from their ancestral lands, and for upholding the right to their traditional way of life."

See also[link]

• Davi Kopenawa Yanomami
• Stephen Corry

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Roy Sesana

• First People of the Kalahari - Official website
• Biography on Right Livelihood Award website
• Right Livelihood Award acceptance speech

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Dr Caroline Lucas MP
Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 September 2008
Deputy	Adrian Ramsay
Preceded by	Office Created
Female Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales
In office 10 August 2007 – 5 September 2008
Preceded by	Siân Berry
Succeeded by	Office Abolished
In office 5 April 2003 – 20 June 2006
Preceded by	Margaret Wright
Succeeded by	Siân Berry
Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 May 2010
Preceded by	David Lepper
Majority	1,252 (2.4%)
Member of the European Parliament for South East England
In office 14 June 1999 – 6 May 2010
Preceded by	Constituency Created
Succeeded by	Keith Taylor
Personal details
Born	(1960-12-09) 9 December 1960 (age 51) Malvern, Worcestershire, England
Political party	Green Party of England and Wales
Spouse(s)	Richard Savage
Alma mater	University of Exeter University of Kansas
Website	Official website

Caroline Patricia Lucas (born 9 December 1960) is a British Green Party politician, the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales (a post she took up in 2008 and will step down from in September 2012), and the first and only Green Member of Parliament (MP) in the UK. She was elected for Brighton Pavilion at the 2010 general election, and was a Member of the European Parliament for South East England from 1999 to 2010.^[1][2] As a result of the restrictions regarding dual mandates, she had to give up her seat in European Parliament to take up her seat in the House of Commons. Keith Taylor succeeded her in this position.^[3]

She is noted for campaigning and writing on green economics, localisation, alternatives to globalisation, trade justice, animal welfare and food. In her time as a politician and activist, she has worked with numerous NGOs and think-tanks, including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), Oxfam and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Early life and education[link]

Lucas was born in Malvern in Worcestershire, to middle class and Conservative-voting parents.^[4] Her father ran a small central heating company.^[5]

Lucas was educated at Malvern Girls' College (which became Malvern St James in 2006), an independent school in Great Malvern. She then went to the University of Exeter, where she gained a first-class BA (Hons) in English Literature, which she completed in 1983.^[6][7] While there, she went on many trips to Greenham Common and Molesworth peace camps when involved with CND. She took a scholarship at the University of Kansas between 1983 and 1984 before doing a Diploma of Journalism in 1987. She earned her PhD from the University of Exeter in 1989 with a thesis entitled Writing for Women: a study of woman as reader in Elizabethan romance.^[8]

Lucas was an activist in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and was heavily involved in the Snowball Campaign against US military bases in the UK.

Career[link]

Outside the Green Party[link]

As well as her party political activities, Lucas has worked extensively with developmental NGO Oxfam as Press Officer (1989–91), Asia Desk Communications Officer (1991–94), Policy Adviser on Trade and the Environment (1994–97) and Team Leader for Trade and Investment (1998–99).

Green Party MEP and Westminster candidate[link]

After joining the Green Party (UK) in 1986 (later renamed the Green Party of England and Wales), Lucas had stints as the party's National Press Officer (1987–89), Co-Chair (1989–90), General Election Speaker (1991–92) and Party Regional Council Member (1997–99). She would later hold the post of Female Principal Speaker from 2003 to 2006 and from 2007 onwards.^[8] Her first electoral success came when she won the Green Party's second council seat in the UK on Oxford City Council, which she held between 1993 and 1997.^[9]

Lucas was first elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England Region at the 1999 elections, the first year the election was by proportional representation. In that year the Green Party gained 7.4 per cent of the vote (110,571 votes). She was re-elected in 2004, gaining 173,351 votes (7.9 per cent share), and again in the 2009 election when the party's vote under the list system rose to 271,506, or 11.6 per cent.^[10] In the European Parliament, she has been a member of the Committee for Trade, Industry, Energy and Research; the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy;^[9] the Committee on International Trade; and the Temporary Committee on Climate Change.^[8] In addition, she is or has been Vice-President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, a member of Intergroups on Peace Issues and Consumer Affairs, a member of the Parliament's Delegation to ACP (African Caribbean, and Pacific) Countries,^[9] and a member of the Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.^[8] As part of her committee work, she was the Parliament's Rapporteur (draftsperson) on a Commission Communication on the impact of air transport on the environment, and the Vice-President of the parliament's committee of inquiry into foot and mouth disease.^[9]

Brighton Pavilion had the highest vote in the 2005 general election for a Green Party candidate when Keith Taylor, a former Green Party Principal Speaker, gained 22 per cent of the vote. In 2007, Lucas declared her intention to stand for the Green Party's nomination for the prospective parliamentary candidate in the Brighton Pavilion constituency for the next general election. In a letter to party members, Lucas made it clear that she would only stand if she won the internal party selection election by more than 10%, to avoid internal division. She described the move as "the most difficult decision of my life", due to "personal and family commitments" but also her "loyalty and commitment to Keith Taylor, who is a person and a politician for whom I have great admiration and respect".^[11] On 18 July 2007, it was announced that Lucas had been selected by the Brighton Green Party. Lucas won with 55 per cent of the party ballot against Keith Taylor's 45 per cent.^[2] Lucas was elected as the Green Party's first-ever MP in the general election of 2010. However, she is not the first Green Candidate to be elected under a first-past-the-post electoral system, as this was Jeanette Fitzsimons of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the Coromandel Electorate in 1999.

Caroline Lucas speaking about the Green New Deal in Oxford, in 2009

In July 2008, Lucas joined the Green New Deal Group, an alliance of experts in finance, energy and the environment. The group put forward plans to invest in green energy, provide greater regulation of the finance sector, and strengthen ties between environmentalists, industry, agriculture, and trade unions. The proposals were put forth in response to fears over the recession, climate change, and increasing energy prices, and stressed the need for integrative policies towards tackling all three.^[12]

Green Party leader and MP[link]

Lucas became the Green's first party leader 5 September 2008 after their leadership election gaining 92.4% of the vote (against one other candidate, Ashley Gunstock) on a turnout of 37.9%.

In July 2010, Lucas expressed her support for seven acquitted campaigners of the Smash EDO campaign who caused £180,000 damage to an EDO MGM arms factory under the lawful excuse defence because the company manufactured and sold certain components used by the Israeli military. Lucas stated that: "I am absolutely delighted the jury has recognised that the actions of the decommissioners were a legitimate response to the atrocities being committed in Gaza. I do not advocate non-violent direct action lightly ... [but] their actions were driven by the responsibility to prevent further suffering in Gaza."^[13]

On 14 May 2012, Lucas announced she would be standing down as leader as of September 2012 "in order to broaden opportunities for the range of talent in the party and to raise the profiles of others aspiring to election". She added "I'm proud that during the four years of my term, we've moved Green politics forward to a higher level, with the party by far the most influential it has ever been".^[14]

She is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed an early day motion in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service sponsored by Conservative MP David Tredinnick.^{[citation needed]}

Other roles and writings[link]

Currently, she is vice-president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)^[15] and the Stop the War Coalition^[16] and has been on the National Council of CND since 2004.^[17] She has been an Advisory Board Member to the International Forum on Globalisation, the Centre for a Social Europe^[8] and the Protect the Local, Globally think-tank.^[3] She has been a Trustee of the Radiation Research Trust and Patron of the Joliba Trust (Africa). She is Matron of the Women's Environmental Network. Between 1997 and 1998, she was called upon as a Policy Adviser on Trade and Investment for the UK government's Department for International Development.^[8]

Lucas is a prolific writer of reports, articles and books on the subjects of trade justice, localisation, globalisation, animal welfare and food, in which she is critical of free trade, a Single European Currency, trade-led developmental policies, genetically-modified (GM) food and a lack of attention to environmental and social issues.^[3] Her most substantial work is Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto (co-authored with Mike Woodin), which advocates localisation of economies based on minimal trade and greater social and environmental concern, in opposition to neo-liberal, market-led forces of globalisation.^[18]

In August 2010 Lucas endorsed an eBook collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State edited by Alan Morrison ^[19]

Awards[link]

Caroline Lucas speaking as the first Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales at its autumn conference in 2008.

In her time as a politician and activist, Lucas has won the 2006 Michael Kay Award "for her outstanding contribution to European animal welfare" from the RSPCA.^[20] She was named in the Top 10 of the New Statesman Magazine Person of the Year Award 2006, which was voted for by New Statesman readers, alongside varied personalities including Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Shami Chakrabarti, Director of the civil liberties NGO Liberty. This was considered surprising because many of the other members of the Top 10, including 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, had been nominated and profiled by prominent writers in the magazine in the weeks before the vote.^[21]

Lucas has won the award for Politician of the Year in The Observer Newspaper Ethical Awards three times. The award is voted for by Observer readers, who chose her to win in 2007, 2009 and 2010. In 2007 she had been shortlisted alongside Gordon Brown and David Cameron.^[22][23][24] In 2008 she was listed by The Guardian as one of "50 people who could save the planet".^[25]

In July 2007, Lucas came in eighth place in the New Consumer Magazine Top 100 Ethical Heroes list, behind a number of celebrities including fashion designer Katharine Hamnett (who came 1st), Anita Roddick (The Body Shop founder), Al Gore (former US Vice-President who is now a campaigner for action on climate change) and Jonathon Porritt, a former Green Party politician. The list was designed to recognise people who "made the biggest contribution to ethical consumption over the last five years". According to New Consumer magazine, "if you had to trust one person with changing the world you could do worse than rely on Lucas".^[26] During the same month, BBC Wildlife magazine named her in their Top 50 Conservationists, which was topped by Prince Charles.^[27]

In October 2008 Lucas was winner in the Trade category of The Parliament magazine MEP Awards 2008.^[28] The awards are voted for by MEPs and NGOs. In April 2010 Lucas won Best UK Politician in The Independent Green Awards^[29] and in November 2010 she was awarded "Newcomer of the Year" in The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards.^[30] In July 2011 she was awarded "Best all-rounder" in the Total Politics End of Year MP awards^[31] and in September 2011 she was awarded "MP of the Year" in the Women in Public Life Awards 2011.^[32] Also in 2011 she was given the Political Studies Association award for "Influencing the Political Agenda"^[33] and voted "Progressive of the Year" in Left Foot Forward's readers' poll.^[34]

Personal life[link]

She married Richard Savage in July 1991 in Oxford. They have two sons. She had a house at Stonesfield, between Charlbury and Woodstock, for five years.^[35]

Portrait of Caroline Lucas[link]

The National Portrait Gallery collection includes a 2002 image of Lucas photographed at Aldermaston by Nicola Kurtz.^[36]

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

Caroline Lucas keynote speech at the autumn conference of the Green Party of England and Wales with Councillor Rupert Read looking on, Hove, 2006-09-23

• Liam Fox (Author), Caroline Lucas (Author), Raymond Lygo (Author), Hugh Beach (Author), Nick Grief (Author), Steven Haines (Author), Clare Short (Author), Tim Hare (Author), Ken Booth (Editor), Frank Barnaby (Editor), The Future of Britain's Nuclear Weapons, 2006 ISBN 978-0-9511361-9-5
• Lucas, C. P., Woodin, M., Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto, 2004 ISBN 978-0-7453-1933-9
• Lucas, C. P., Global Warming, Local Warning: A study of the likely impacts of climate change upon South East England, 2004
• Lucas, C. P., Towards a GM free Europe: Halting the spread of GMOs in Europe, 2003
• Jones, A., Lucas, C. P., Local Food: Benefits and Opportunities, 2003
• Lucas, C. P., Time to Replace Globalisation, 2001
• Lucas, C. P., Which way for the European Union: Radical Reform or Business as Usual?, 2001
• Hines, C., Lucas, C. P., Stopping the Great Food Swap: Relocalising Europe's Food Supply, 2001
• Lucas, C. P., From Seattle to Nice: Challenging the Free Trade Agenda at the Heart of Enlargement, 2000
• Lucas, C. P., Woodin, M., The Euro or a Sustainable Future for Britain? A Green Critique of the Single Currency, 2000
• Lucas, C. P., Watchful in Seattle: World Trade Organisation threats to Public Services, Food and the Environment, 1999
• Lucas, C. P., Reforming World Trade: The Social and Environmental Priorities, 1996
• Coote, B., Lucas, C. P., The Trade Trap, 1994
• Lucas, Caroline (1989). Writing for Women: The Example of Woman as Reader in Elizabethan Romance. Open University Press. pp. 176. ISBN 0-335-0917-6. 

See also[link]

• Anti-nuclear movement in the United Kingdom
• Green Party of England and Wales
• Member of the European Parliament
• South East England

External links[link]

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• Caroline Lucas MP official constituency website
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• Current session contributions in Parliament at Hansard
• Electoral history and profile at The Guardian
• Voting record at PublicWhip.org
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou.com
• Profile at Westminster Parliamentary Record
• Profile at BBC News Democracy Live
• Articles authored at Journalisted
• Caroline Lucas MEP archive
• The NS interview: Caroline Lucas, Alyssa McDonald, New Statesman, 12 May 2010
• Early Day Motions signed