Featured Articles from New Green Horizons
Greens, Mamdani, and Municipal Socialism
Introduction Hopeful signs are emerging in popular opposition to the toxic smog of Trumpism. One of the signature (and hopeful) political trends of 2025 has been the rise of democratic socialists to elected municipal office. This is most prominent with the election of...
Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth
A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee highlighted the need for further discussion around the party’s membership structure. At present, the national party is designed as a federation of state parties; that is, the...
A Political Paradox: A Progressive-Leaning Public Elects a Far-Right President
Originally posted in New Politics Winter 2025 (New Politics Vol. XX No. 2, Whole Number 78) and online at at https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-political-paradox/2Why did American voters, who by substantial majorities favor progressive economic, social, and international...
Thoughts Regarding Social Transformation: Addressing Agency and Process
The 2025 Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City campaign demonstrated the success of social change work oriented toward mobilizing people as tenants, bus riders, parents, teachers, academics, sympathetic professionals, congregants, etc. Of course, the Spartacists...
“We have decided not to let each other die”: A Review of Takeover!
Takeover!: A Human Rights Approach To Housing is a new book authored by Cheri Honkala with the insights from members of The Poor People's Army, also known as the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC). Takeover! argues a simple yet profound point:...
Greens, Mamdani, and Municipal Socialism
Introduction Hopeful signs are emerging in popular opposition to the toxic smog of Trumpism. One of the signature (and hopeful) political trends of 2025 has been the rise of democratic socialists to elected municipal office. This is most prominent with the election of...
Book Review: A Fleeting Glance by Madelyn Hoffman
Last month the New Green Horizons webzine offered an excerpt of a recently-published book written by Madelyn Hoffman, a co-chair of the US Green Party Peace Action Committee. Below is a review of the book by Steve Welzer. * * * * A Fleeting Glance: How One Look Across...
The Simpler Way: Review of Ted Trainer’s The Conserver Society
Review of: The Conserver Society By Ted Trainer London: Zed Books, 1995. Where is the greenest place on earth? Sydney? Melbourne? The latter is the home of the Simplicity Institute, an education and research center “seeking to foster a transformation of...
Book Excerpt: A Fleeting Glance: How One Look Across an Apartheid Wall Can Change Lives
New Green Horizons is pleased to be able to present an excerpt from a recently-published book of special interest: A Fleeting Glance: How One Look Across an Apartheid Wall Can Change Lives By Madelyn Hoffman (c) 2025 Europe Books, London. The Prologue and the first...
Paul Goodman: Advocate of Community-Based Education
[Author's Note: Unless otherwise indicated, all quotes below are taken from Paul Goodman’s contribution to the discussion volume Summerhill: For and Against (Hart Publishing Company, New York, 1970), pages 205-222.] Few American writers were more prolific than...
Dues-Paying Membership and Ranked Choice For GPUS Growth
A 2013 Strategic Plan put forth by the Green Party of the United States Steering Committee highlighted the need for further discussion around the party’s membership structure. At present, the national party is designed as a federation of state parties; that is, the...
Reaching the Wayward Flock at No Kings Actions
On October 18, some seven million people in communities large and small demonstrated against the Trump regime under the banner "No Kings," in the largest protest in US history, according to No Kings Coalition organizers. Sometimes I wonder why the Greens have trouble...
No Nukes in New York!
On September 30, 2025, about 80 people gathered outside the Marriott Hotel in downtown Syracuse where Governor Kathy Hochul was holding a private meeting with nuclear industry representatives to strategize about expanding nuclear power in New York. They want to extend...
Lessons From Leftist Pandemic Disinterest Toward Rebuilding Public Health
In 2022-2023, the Biden administration rapidly dismantled the emergency social safety nets put in place during the early COVID-19 pandemic. Biden officials declared the pandemic to be over despite objections from experts, backpedaled from vaccine and mandate policy to...
A Response to Rick Greenblatt
This article is a response to Rick Greenblatt's "Planetary Problems Require Planetary Solutions," which is part of a Green Strategy Debate series. With the emergence of large corporate enterprises during the nineteenth century it became apparent that these economic...
A Response to Steve Welzer
Introduction This essay is written as a critical yet comradely reply to Steve Welzer’s post in New Green Horizons, “Notice how different this paradigm is.” [1] Grounded in a Marxian, ecosocialist perspective, I consider some cornerstones of Steve’s positions,...
Water for Palestine
The Australian Government has finally decided to recognize Palestine, following a groundswell of protests and support throughout the community. However, real change is still needed on the ground right now. The death toll in Gaza since October 2023 now devastatingly...
Mapping the Conservative Left: Why Some Socialists Sound Like the Right
The rise of the far-right across Europe and North America has prompted urgent soul-searching on the left. From Trump's return to power to the growth of Alternative for Germany (AfD), from Giorgia Meloni's ascendancy in Italy to the surge of Reform UK, reactionary...
Complicity Is Bipartisan: How Both Parties Enabled the Destruction of Gaza
By early 2025, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza had become undeniable. Entire neighborhoods leveled. Tens of thousands dead. Children starving. And through it all, the United States – the self-declared leader of the free world – was not only complicit but...
The Green New Deal and the Right to a Job
Editor’s Note: This article is a lightly edited transcript of a speech given by Howie Hawkins as the 2015 Green Party State of the Union Response on January 20, 2015. Howie Hawkins was the Green Party of the United States candidate for President in 2020. The signature...
Notice how different this paradigm is
Editors' Note: This article presents one view on a Green Party vision for the future, as part of a friendly debate. Please read Planetary Problems Require Planetary Solutions by Rick Greenblatt for a differing view. The Editors would love to hear your feedback on...
Planetary Problems Require Planetary Solutions
Editors' Note: This article presents one view on a Green Party vision for the future, as part of a friendly debate. Please read Notice how different this paradigm is by Steve Welzer for a differing view. The Editors would love to hear your feedback on both!...
Remembering David Schwartzman, Ecosocialist Climate Scientist and Green Party Activist
I was shocked when I heard that David Schwartzman had passed away from cancer on July 1. I had been corresponding with him in the preceding days and weeks about how we should organize to defeat Trumpist neofascism and about the upcoming COP30 Climate Summit in Belém,...
Recommended Reading: Listen, Marxist!
[Click Here to Read "Listen, Marxist!" by Murray Bookchin] I wrote the introduction to Listen, Marxist! that follows below for a 1988 reprint edition distributed by the Left Green Network in the early years of the American Green Party movement. We organized the Left...
Interview with Carla Denyer, a co-leader of the UK Green Party
The Green Party of England and Wales had notable success in the local-council elections held on May 1. Party co-leader Carla Denyer (a Member of Parliament) said: “The Green Party has broken new records by increasing our number of councilors for the eighth year...
Independent Political Action Under Trump: Build Up from Local Bases
A far-right President was elected in 2024 despite a strong majority of Americans supporting progressive economic and social policies. How can we begin to cohere this progressive majority into a winning political force under the Trump administration? I will argue here...
Towards a Green Party for Ecosocialism
Introduction Capitalist domination of the world system poses existential threats to the world’s people, including the climate crisis and the threat of thermonuclear war . In this article, I consider the ideological role that ecosocialism can play in contributing to...