Features

With the Green Party autumn conference unable to be held in person, the event has been moved online, throwing up new challenges and opportunities for the conference team. Conference Manager Louisa Greenbaum gives an insight into how organising Green Party conference has changed during Covid-19.

A new way of taking on the Murdoch empire

Rupert Read explains why he is calling for a boycott on speaking to the Murdoch-owned press

Brighton and Hove holds first Climate Assembly

The city council’s first Climate Assembly focused primarily on transport

Our enemy is not only the virus

Larry Sanders warns of a darker side to the government’s bungled approach to test and trace

Reforming the house

Green Party House of Lords nominee Molly Scott Cato outlines her plans should she be asked to enter the second chamber

What was behind the Green wave at the French municipal elections?

Charlotte Soulary explores the reasons behind the Greens’ success in the French municipal elections

Book Review: Riders on the Storm

Molly Scott Cato reviews Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh

Q&A with Labour MP Clive Lewis

Green World talks to Labour MP Clive Lewis about working cross-party cooperation and democratic reform

Campaigners outside City Hall protesting the Silvertown Tunnel

Silvertown Tunnel must be cancelled now

Caroline Russell reveals the £2-billion cost to Londoners of the proposed Silvertown Road Tunnel

Freight-to-rail must be part of post-Brexit, post-Covid future

With the Brexit transition period close to ending and calls for a green recovery from Covid-19 growing, Sarah Gleave, Co-ordinator of the Dover and Deal Green Party reiterates the Green P...

Sarah Gleave |

Brexit

Climate Change

Transport

| Fri 11 Sep 2020

Stroud makes climate emergency progress

In the latest of Green World’s What has changed? series on the progress of local authority climate emergency plans, Stroud Green councillor Simon Pickering recounts the passing of the cli...

Simon Pickering |

| Thu 10 Sep 2020

No atrocities: Ecological reasons why black lives matter

Green Party member Rosey Thomas Palmer looks at how ecology must support equal rights for diverse communities and reformulate itself to support social justice aims as well as ecological o...

Rosey Thomas Palmer |

| Thu 10 Sep 2020

Planning reforms clear ground for US trade deal

Julian Mellor explores how the government’s proposed planning reforms could hand power to US developers by removing the decision-making power of local planning committees.

Julian Mellor |

| Wed 9 Sep 2020

Why we need proper legal protections for our right to protest

With reports of heavy handed policing of Extinction Rebellion protests and rumours that the government plans to reclassify the group as an ‘organised crime’ organisation, our right to pro...

Kevin Blowe |

| Mon 7 Sep 2020

Belarus should be a warning to the UK

“In a tweet about the protests in Belarus, former Green MEP Molly Scott Cato said ‘They are demanding something better – why aren’t we?’.” Student and Green Party member Matthew Staton ar...

Matthew Staton |

Democracy

Europe

Elections

| Thu 3 Sep 2020

Q&A: Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu

Green World talks to Hazel Chu about her first few months as the 352nd Lord Mayor of Dublin, only the 9th woman and first person of colour to do so, what difference the Greens can make in...

Green World |

| Wed 2 Sep 2020

Extinction Rebellion returns to the streets

Extinction Rebellion (XR) will be holding protests across the country, including a rebellion outside Parliament, this weekend to demand the government support a climate and ecological eme...

Green World |

| Sat 29 Aug 2020

Do not just ‘Build, build, build’!

Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) protests the new laws on Permitted Development Rights (PDR) as being detrimental to meeting underlying climate targets and wants the government to...

Sahar Nava |

Policy

UK Government

Local Government

| Fri 28 Aug 2020

Book Review: Confessions of a Non-Violent Revolutionary

Extinction Rebellion activists and police on Waterloo Bridge

Green peer Natalie Bennett reviews Chris Savory’s Confessions of a Non-Violent Revolutionary, a memoir of political activism in the 1980s and what lessons can be learned for the future of...

Natalie Bennett |

Activism

Reviews

Democracy

| Thu 27 Aug 2020

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