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The should affiliate to the All The Green Party AGM next week seems certain to be hot with debate over the party's future. Jonathon 'orritt and other party heavyweights have been lobbying hard for this AGM to adopt a document known as 'Green 2000'. This seeks to centralise and restructure the Green Party in order to make it 'serious' and electorally viable.
These debates are nothing new. In fact the current behind Green 2000 have been pushing similar ideas for the last three years or so. But this time the debate comes very close to a possible general election. It will be the first major election since the 1989 Euro-elections where the Greens won a surprising 2.5 million votes.
It will be seen therefore as an important test by the more electorally-inclined Porritt current.
Radicalism
However, many activists at the grassroots of the party see Green 2000 as an attack on the radicalism at the heart of politics. The Green Party has adopted many of its decentralised and participatory working methods from feminist and anarchist currents. It has shied away from the conventional use of individualistic 'star leaders'.
Far from weakening green politics, opponents of 2000 argue that these methods strengthen it. The fear is that if the Porritt current get their way at this AGM, the Green Party will look more like the Liberal Democrats than a party that wants to change the Clearly this has always been a debate just waiting to happen. But it is by no means certain that Green 2000 will get the necessary two-thirds majority for it to become policy. There is even a pos-