Featured Articles from New Green Horizons
Verde Por La Gente: How Latinos Are Moving Beyond The Democrats and Republicans
An in-depth critique of how mainstream media distorts Latino political behavior and why disenfranchised voters are seeking alternatives beyond establishment politics. The narrative around Kamala Harris’s struggle with Latino voters, particularly Latino men, reveals a...
The Greens and the Broad Alternative Vote in 2024
As of today we don’t have full vote totals in New Jersey. In some of the districts they’ve only counted 90% of the votes. Ultimately, it looks like it will be recorded that almost 50,000 voters will have cast a vote for one or another Green Party candidate in our...
Toward Building a “New World”
The aspiration to “build a new world within the shell of the old” has a long history. It is typically associated with the traditions of cooperativism and anarchism. But it is also part of the socialist/communist tradition, as articulated by Marx himself. Marx...
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...
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...
Green Politics and the Idea of Liberation through “Building the New within the Shell of the Old”
Premise: Concentrated capital is a social asset and it should be socialized. But that should be viewed as a systemic reform; the idea it will end class division is short-sighted. The key to liberation involves a deep green transformation of society. * * * * We know...
Confronting Elitism, Exclusion, and Reactionary Suppression Within the Left
In every revolutionary movement, there are forces pulling in two directions—those trying to build, and those unconsciously (or deliberately) working to dismantle. Within the Green Party and the broader left, we face a growing contradiction: we speak the language of...
Fly Over Lives Matter
Analysis of the 2016 presidential election (appeared in Green Horizon Spring 2017) Hillary Clinton didn’t do poorly on November 8. She won the popular vote by more than two million. She had large margins in the states where she was expected to do well. She lost by a...
May Day is Red and Green
May Day, or International Workers Day, is celebrated with marches and rallies every May 1 to lift up the working people and their demands for freedom, equality, and justice. That is the Red tradition of May Day. But there is also an older Green tradition in which...
Working Class Hero
"When Louis Napoleon III vaulted to a throne by perjury and treason, ...the sovereign princes and aristocracies of Europe, the great landowners, manufacturers, rentiers and stockjobbers, almost to a man, exulted in his success as their own. 'The crimes are his', was...
An Ecosocialist Perspective on Resisting Trump
Introduction We are living through a period defined in large part by the growing political dominance of the far right internationally. In the U.S., we experience this as the rise of Trump and MAGA. In this essay, I first identify several factors that have facilitated...