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

What can a swarm of locusts teach us about climate change reporting?

When swarms of billions of locusts descended on East Africa, it would appear strange that little to no attempt has been made in recent mainstream news and documentaries to explore the lin...

Alan Story |

| Tue 25 Aug 2020

All words no action in Bristol

“I've said more times than I can remember that it cannot just be words. Declaring a climate emergency has to lead to real action.” In the latest instalment of our series What has Changed?...

Carla Denyer |

| Mon 24 Aug 2020

Councillors must oppose government’s planning overhaul

“Just when we need to be strengthening communities, defending the environment, and planning for our children’s futures; the new planning laws being rushed through by the Government threat...

Leo Littman |

Housing

Policy

UK Government

| Fri 21 Aug 2020

GPEW Policy Development Committee candidates

Candidates for the GPEW Policy Development Committee explain why party members should vote for them in the Green Party internal elections.

Green World |

Democracy

Elections

Green Party

| Thu 20 Aug 2020

UK and EU should stand up to anti-LGBT agenda in Poland

“It’s clear that the EU needs to be stronger in its fight against discrimination in Poland.” Matthew Staton, student and member of the North Staffordshire Green Party, considers the EU’s ...

Matthew Staton |

| Thu 20 Aug 2020

Greens aim to make New Zealand fairer, cleaner and healthier

Marama Davidson and James Shaw waving to a crowd

Simon Wood, the International Campaign Manager for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, urges New Zealanders to vote for the Greens ahead of the country’s general election. After winn...

Simon Wood |

| Wed 19 Aug 2020

Sheffield Greens lobby for actions, not just words

In the third part of our series on the progress of local authority climate emergency declarations, What has changed?, Green Sheffield city councillor Douglas Johnson looks at how Sheffiel...

Douglas Johnson |

| Tue 18 Aug 2020

Unitary council push will undermine local decision-making

“The imposition of new unitary authorities from Whitehall will not result in real devolution but rather a greater centralisation of power in major cities and conurbations.” As the governm...

Alan Borgars |

| Mon 17 Aug 2020

Educating the peace

CND Peace Education children Barnehurst Juniors

“Our workshops don’t aim to reject this idea, or shame young people for supporting nuclear weapon possession, rather we aim to provide alternatives, and help students think critically abo...

Joe Jukes |

Activism

Policy

International

| Fri 14 Aug 2020

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods: Good idea badly implemented?

A flagship transport scheme designed to increase physical distancing and reduce exposure to air pollution in the post-Covid era has come under fire from campaigners who claim it is counte...

Dawn Furness |

| Fri 14 Aug 2020

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