Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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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Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external



