imeage: Wandsworth Green Party
The British state is crumbling. Our economy's been stuck back together with duct tape and accelerated towards a brick wall. We're living through a vast communications revolution, species are dying by the day and the climate clock is ticking fast. The old, as someone else once said, is dying. It is the role of radicals to be midwives to the new. And we don't have much time.
In this context, if Jeremy Corbyn or one of his allies is the Labour candidate for prime minister in the next election, Greens should try to help him win. To say as much is not to say that the Green Party and Corbynite Labour are the same. It is not to argue that the Green Party ought to be subsumed into Labour. It is simply to stand, as Tom Nairn once put it, "on the terrain of reality and the future".
