Category Archives: Green Party

An open letter to the members of Green Left

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Sean Thompson

Comrades, An event in Manchester last month served to demonstrate to me the limitations of the politics of the Green Party. It was on the TUC demonstration in support of the NHS; a huge, cheerful and largely working class march, … Continue reading →

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The Times They (may be) a’Changin

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Sean Thompson

Over the past couple of weeks, three things have served to lift the gloom of an apparently endless winter in Tory Britain. First has been the first stirrings of what may well become a real wave of popular revulsion at … Continue reading →

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Squeezing blood from stones – Tory style

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Sean Thompson

Under the current system, people on low or no incomes have up to 100% of their council tax paid by their local council through Council Tax benefit. However, in just five weeks time, at the beginning of April, the  current … Continue reading →

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Can’t pay? Don’t pay

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Sean Thompson

Obviously, we all know that this is Government is absolutely vile. But of all the vile things that they have done, or are planning to do (or at least, that they currently admit they are planning) the imposition of the … Continue reading →

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Being Green

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Sean Thompson

A few days ago there was an interesting discussion on the Socialist Unity blog (I say interesting; lengthy and fractious more like) about a post from a young comrade in York University Green Party entitled Can the Green Party become … Continue reading →

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