As we know “History is the best teacher with worst pupils”. On 27th of January we should remind the planet, how we as a human beings can be mistaken if we are following issues based on hate and fears. We all remember what happened with Jewish minority in Europe during second world war, but as…
Category: Green Politics
Political Change in Poland
I have been confronted with bad news from Poland almost every day. German media talk about the new government in connection with protests, taking control of public media, introducing an authoritarian Budapest Model, breaking other EU democracy rules and so on… That is why I’m asking myself: What’s going on in my beloved neighbouring country?…
#Ausnahmslos – No Excuses
On New Year’s Eve at Cologne main station several women became victims of sexual assaults. Groups of men gathered and assaulted women. The assaults attracted not only in Germany but also international widespread public attention. Key point of the reporting was sadly not the showed sexism and rape culture, but the ethnic background/origin of the…
Europe’s anti-austerity, democratic struggle enters next phase
Last night, it became clear for everyone that another Southern European country has abandoned an old political system and entered a new era. Spain and Greece are societies where the crisis has been exceptionally brutal. Where young people have to a large extent lost their future perspectives. Where voters have lost faith in the capacity…
An opportunity for “Generation Europe XXI” in (re)claiming public spaces in Europe – Degrowth Perspectives
The European youth deals with numerous challenges: economic crisis, environmental crisis, migratory crisis, democratic crisis… If we consider these crises as structuring factors of the European youth, it is a question of wondering about its capacities in (re)claim the European public places. According to a recent study, we have to admit that in France, 71…
Five reasons why I marched outside the conservative conference
On October 4th 2015 I was one of the 60,000 plus protesters, united in a protest against Conservatives outside of their Party Conference. Surrounded by a ring of steel, by Manchester police, private security companies, snipers on roofs and what appeared to be a helicopter flying around us, Conservative members watched over 60,000 protesters walking…
An ethical call for degrowth
The attitude that capitalism gives rise to, dehumanises us because it turns us into competitive animals. We fail to realise that capitalism is an inherently exploitative system, where most of the power will always reside in the hands of the rich. But there is a way around this… Content warning: this might read like a…
Be Political.
By Kate S., International Officer of the Scottish Young Greens Scotland has been my home for almost 13 years now. Glasgow for 7. Nevertheless, politically things have never been as uncertain as today. We come into 2015 with a promise of further austerity and over £12 billion welfare cuts in the UK as a whole….
Elections and hopes in post-Gezi Turkey
Many of us wonder who are the people who went to the streets during Gezi Park protests, who are behind the recent electoral success of the HPD party in Turkey, who has enough courage to sand up against Erdogan’s regime. Among others, there are also young activists connected to the green movement. While travelling back…
The Green Surge and the UK General Election
On May 7, we will see one of the most hotly contested general elections in the history of the UK with no party expected to win an outright majority in the parliament’s House of Commons. The Green Party of England & Wales and the Green parties of Scotland and Northern Ireland are at the heart…