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Why going green means voting Labour
LAUREN TOWNSEND looks at the rapidly growing success of the Labour Party’s Green New Deal, which aims to create a platform for Labour members, supporters and trade unionists to engage and organise for climate and economic justice
The author (holding placard with both hands) launches Labour for a Green New Deal in Parliament with Labour MPs including Ed Miliband and Danielle Rowley
The left has become too reliant on persuasion and too detached from the workplaces and communities it seeks to represent, argues NICK TROY
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The drive to strengthen European defence is reshaping relations between France, Germany, Italy and Britain, says NICK WRIGHT
The UN blames gangs for Haiti’s turmoil, while ignoring decades of foreign intervention and support for an unelected government that lie at the heart of the country’s continuing crisis, says RUBEN BRETT
CAROLINE LUCAS’S descent from serious left-wing voice to just another anti-Brexit demagogue has been swift. In the days of Thatcher and Blair, the Greens were considered the party of socialism, persistently pushing Labour from the left with radical policies and their “manifesto for a sustainable society,” which heavily incorporated key socialist values. They rejected privatisation and free market economics while including commitments to improving workers’ rights and encouraging economic democracy, with promises to bring in progressive taxation and plans to redistribute wealth and power, Robin Hood style.
But Lucas’s opportunistic “emergency cabinet” stunt last weekend was another demonstration of just how far the Green Party has fallen — and with the Greens no longer the party of climate justice, if avoiding environmental catastrophe is at the top of your political wish-list then it is by the Labour candidate’s name you must put your “X” at the ballot box.
Despite its name, the Green Party is clearly more concerned with scoring political points over Brexit than making any legitimate attempt to tackle the current climate emergency. A misguided effort considering the majority of the public aren’t with them — 71 per cent of Britons recognise that the climate crisis is a more pressing long-term issue than Brexit.
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