Can the unity built between the Camden People’s Alliance and the Green Party make an electoral breakthrough on the PM’s home territory this week? ANDREW MURRAY talks to some of those involved
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Lucas goes ludicrous
Caroline’s crank plan for an all-woman remainiac revolt show the Green’s have nothing to envy, says NICK WRIGHT
Green Party leader Caroline Lucas speaking on stage at an anti-Trump protest in London
Plaid Cymru’s Caerffili by-election win raised hopes on the left — but the complex realities of Wales suggest the Senedd election may be far less predictable, argues CATRIN ASHTON
Politicians must seize the opportunity to act boldly and tackle land inequality, delivering power to local communities, writes Dr JOSH DOBLE
Disabled tenant RUTH HUNT found herself evicted by her landlord of 10 years after asking for repairs. She explains why the end of no-fault evictions is cause for celebration
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
HENRY FOWLER, General Strike 100 national co-ordinator, continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations, joining the National Day of Celebration in Barnsley. The event was organised by Unite for a Workers Economy (Unite the Union), the Durham Miners Association, and the National Union of Mineworkers
ONE of the things I like most about Caroline Lucas, the Green Party’s sole MP, is that she is nowhere near as nice as she seems. The self-imposed task of giving direction to that quarrelsome assembly of semi-autonomous self governing identity groups that is today’s Green Party would try the patience of a saint.
And, in the various manoeuvrings that have seen the party’s leadership several times reconstituted and its policies realigned, she has operated with a skill-set that makes her a First Division practitioner of the Machiavellian dark arts. All this with the added utility of a sympathetic smile and a winning manner.
It is still possible to hold on to a fair measure of respect for Britain’s Greens. They played a mostly constructive part in the anti-war movement although Lucas did later resign as vice-president of the Stop the War Coalition when she encountered an imperial war waged on a regime of which she disapproved almost as much as war itself.
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