BED BATH 2-50 "He don't waste money on those fancy soars now we're opted out." Sara Parkin and Jonathon Porritt are now effectively the first individual leaders in the history of the British Green Party.
They were elected as the phe y's nation peacerafter 'professionalist-centralist' Green 2000 motion won the day at the party's AGM in Wolverhampton.
The Green 2000 current, as reported in SOT, campaigned hard to win a large number of proxy votes. This included publishing an impressive list of supporters. The 'big names' not commonly associated with the party itself included David Gee (director of Friends of the Earth), Edward Goldsmith (editor, The Ecologist), and Satish Kumar (editor, Resurgence).
Now that the Green 2000 current have won control of the party, they face the awesome project of transforming it into a viable electoral concern with politics virtually indistinguishable the Liberal The left in the party put up a spirited, if unorganised, fight. They warned that if passed, Green 2000 would result in the active base of the party dropping out of party work. It is this aver that has held the party together over crisis-ridden recent months.
The lurch to the right was mitted socialists inside. Socialists in the Labour Party and in the Socialist Movement should be discussing with them ways in which we can work Women for Socialism is attempting to do that, and this year held a fringe meeting for the first time at the AGM. There was general and frank discussion about the problems that socialist teminists tace as in working class politics. There was also agree ment that weneeded to do more in terms of working together, particularly drawing on the positive experiences of the antiGulf War movement. Interestingly, the problems that women in the Green Party face areby no means dissimilar to those of us elsewhere. Prince Charles: friends in high places one Cens BC THEFTEE