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Opinion: Labour Only Has One Route to Power – And It Can’t Take ‘Generation Left’ for Granted

Aaron Bastani

The answer to Labour’s problems in the polls isn’t to double down on attacking the left within the party, or admonishing the Greens or even the Lib Dems. It’s to set out an electoral offer that will appeal to ‘generation left’ in 2024 - and to do it now, argues Aaron Bastani.

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Opinion: Are Greens Actually Serious About Climate Change?

Aaron Bastani

In tackling the climate crisis, greens must stop centring individual responsibility and start collectively challenging the crucial role capitalism plays within it, writes Aaron Bastani.

This Must Be the ‘Green Moment’ – So Why is Caroline Lucas Rehabilitating the Failed Politics of the Establishment?

Aaron Bastani

Last weekend Caroline Lucas proposed cabinet of ‘national unity’ to stop a no deal Brexit - comprised entirely of remain-voting white women. Aaron Bastani argues that by aligning themselves with remain-centrists over socialists, the Greens are providing credibility to the political establishment at a time when eco-socialism has never been more necessary.

Corbyn Is Wrong to Indulge Migration Myths – Free Movement Must Be Defended

Caroline Lucas

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

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?

Josiah Mortimer

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.

Long Read: Take Back the City: The Disillusioned Londoners Calling for Radical Democracy.

Emma Snaith

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

Josiah Mortimer

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

Josiah Mortimer

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

Adam Ramsay

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

Daniel Randall

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

Adam Ramsay

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

David Bell

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’?

Craig McVegas

#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

Adam Ramsay

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!)

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