The Future of the 'New Politics': a European Perspective.

The article presents a European perspective of the future of the new politics. At the end of the 1980s it is the Green movement seized the imagination of those who hanker after political change. Millions join environmental organisations, Green Parties win seats in legislatures. This new wave of the new politics is simply the continuation of that of the 1960s and 1970s before the social movements of those years were displaced by the economic recession induced by the oil crisis. In Great Britain, the Labour Party is especially disadvantaged by its historical indifference to the environmental matters which most animate the present green wave.