The Association of Socialist Greens was a political ginger group, often called a faction, founded by
Derek Wall
Derek Norman Wall (born 26 May 1965) is a British politician. He was the joint International Coordinator for the Green Party of England and Wales and stood against Prime Minister Theresa May as the Green candidate for Maidenhead at the 2017 ge ...
and others following the Socialist Conference organised by
Tony Benn
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn (3 April 1925 – 14 March 2014), known between 1960 and 1963 as Viscount Stansgate, was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and political activist who served as a Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabine ...
in the year after the
1987 General Election. It became involved in responses to attempts to organise the
UK Green Party (now the
Green Party of England and Wales
The Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW; ), often known simply as the Green Party or the Greens, is a Green politics, green, Left-wing politics, left-wing political party in England and Wales. Since October 2021, Carla Denyer and Adrian Ram ...
) on more conventional lines in the 1980s. It ran a newsletter known as ''
The Way Ahead (Green newsletter)''.
It is not affiliated with the more recently created
Green Left
The term green left refers primarily to a political affiliation that combines elements of green politics and left-wing politics in countries where the term is used. It is primarily a social justice and human rights oriented ideology, with an exp ...
, of which Wall is also a founding member.
Green Party of England and Wales
Political party factions in the United Kingdom
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