Tag: greens

Corbyn Is Wrong to Indulge Migration Myths – Free Movement Must Be Defended
Giving up on freedom of movement is a huge backwards step, and being a nice guy shouldn't excuse Jeremy Corbyn for pandering to baseless myths on migration, argues Green co-leader Caroline Lucas.
Larry Sanders: “We Don’t Really Know Who the Labour Party Is”
Josiah Mortimer interviewed Green party candidate Larry Sanders, brother of Bernie, about his running in the Witney by-election, Jeremy Corbyn, and the possibility of a Green-Labour alliance in the next general election.
New Green Leadership: What Happens Next?
Caroline Lucas and Jonathan Bartley are the new co-leaders of the Green party. With an overwhelming mandate, they're now tasked with making headway on their core platform: building a progressive alliance.
Take Back the City: The Disillusioned Londoners Calling for Radical Democracy.
Take Back the City proposes a radically different vision of political organising. In a city riven with social divisions and worsening living conditions, can it hope to achieve change for ordinary Londoners?
Amid the Turmoil, the Greens Are Upbeat
Post-Brexit and facing their own change of leadership, the Greens are turning their attention to proportional representation and the possibility of a progressive parliamentary alliance.
‘Sadiq and Zac refused to meet the Greens’ – It could cost them the London mayoralty
All London mayoral elections have been decided by second preference votes, and even Ken Livingstone's reign was kick-started by Green voters. Could the frontrunners' complacency cost them?
12 Reasons to Vote Green in this General Election
Election week on NovaraWire continues: Never mind the Labour party - if you want to break the pro-austerity hegemony in Westminster, only a vote for the Greens can provoke a left turn for electoral politics, argues Adam Ramsay.
4 Reasons Working-Class Radicals Should Vote Labour on 7 May
Election week on NovaraWire continues: Is there a case to be made for radicals to give conditional support to Labour in this week's election? Daniel Randall from the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory thinks so.
11 Quick Reflections on the Leaders’ Debate
Last night's seven-way leaders' debate brought in a third of TV viewers, and was the only time ahead of the general election that David Cameron and Ed Miliband will be in a studio together. The SNP's Nicola Sturgeon seems to have pulled out in front, with Farage also polling highly.
7 Thoughts on Basic Income and Utopia
There's a lot of talk about basic income, but would such a policy live up to the hype?
Red on the Inside: Are the Greens the ‘New Old Labour’?
#GreenSurge is underway, with a lot of the Greens' new support coming from former Labour supporters - but how is the Green Party positioning itself to attract these new supporters?
9 Things You Might Not Expect From the Greens’ EU Manifesto
With European elections fast approaching, all the focus seems to be on a scraggly bunch of misfits. And UKIP, who have been receiving rather nasty parcels from said scraggly bunch. It seems depressing coming to terms with the fact we're still fire-fighting racist scapegoating at a parliamentary level in 2014, so is there any hope for a progressive Europe? The Green Party at least throw some interesting policies into the equation (and they're not all about the environment!)