Is the Green Party a real alternative?
The Green Party is picking up
support consistently in opinion polls. This has been reflected in an
increase in the party’s membership. Do the Greens really represent an
alternative to the establishment parties? CLAIRE LAKER-MANSFIELD
investigates.
Britain’s
tipping point election
As the general election
approaches, the political situation in Britain is more unstable than for
many decades. The outcome is impossible to predict, reflecting the
unprecedented unpopularity of all the major capitalist parties – rooted
in the continued economic crisis. We print an edited extract from the
draft British perspectives document to be discussed at the Socialist
Party national congress in February.
UN climate talks: the Lima loopholes
New records are being broken
for global warming, with 2014 the hottest on a world scale, while the Met Office reported that
it was also the UK’s hottest in figures going back to 1910.
Eight of the ten warmest years in history have taken place since 2002. That was the backdrop to the
UN sponsored climate change conference in Lima,
Peru, last December. The minds of the delegates should have been
further concentrated by the massive climate change demo in the USA last
year, the world’s biggest on this issue. So what happened in Peru? PETE
DICKENSON reports.
