About Colin Hines

Colin Hines is Convenor of the Green New Deal Group and former Co-ordinator of Greenpeace International’s Economics Unit, having worked for the organisation for 10 years. He is the author of the book Localization: A Global Manifesto (Earthscan)

Seeing Off Extreme Right Populism With ‘Progressive Protectionism’

by Colin Hines on 20 March 2018

The first step to an effective response by progressives to the rising tide of right-wing populism in Italy and elsewhere is to realise that ever more open borders are the problem. It was predominantly opposition to inadequately controlled immigration that brought the Italian election result, the Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election. The other contributing […]

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