The Greens Can Win National Power. How Much Do They Want It?“Amateurs talk strategy,” the US general Omar Bradley reputedly once said, “professionals talk logistics.” As the dust settles on an extraordinary set of elections, with Labour smashed in Wales, the West Midlands and the Manchester and Liverpool city regions, that is how to make sense of what just happened. Reform UK, whatever you think of their policy platform, are the party of logistics. While Labour’s siren voices call for a ‘comms reset’, faster delivery or even a change of leader, Britain’s teal-hued insurgents are focusing on scale and speed. The cliche is hackneyed, but also underscores they are a business as much as a party: this is an organisation run like a VC-funded startup. All of that is interesting Aaron, I hear you say, but the next general election is three years away – who knows what might change before then? This is partly the point. What should really worry Labour, and anyone who wants to stop a Reform government, is how the gap between the establishment parties and Farage’s troops is growing by the week. Certainly, Reform’s great vulnerability is that, for now, it depends on the most charismatic figure in British politics. But once you start controlling dozens of local authorities, that will change. Unlike UKIP and the Brexit party before them, Reform is building a party cadre. For a leftist, it’s almost admirable.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/05/08/the-greens-can-win-national-power-how-much-do-they-want-it/Bolivia’s Social Movements Mobilize Against Privatization“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land,” Frantz Fanon wrote in The Wretched of the Earth: “the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” Marching for over twenty days from the tropics into freezing high-altitude terrain, many wearing nothing more substantial on their feet than plastic sandals, land workers and indigenous representatives arrived in the capital of La Paz this week to defend their territories. They were met by the miners’ union, the Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia (FSTMB), and highland representatives from the peasant union, the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Camp
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