Alternative Green is a UK

United Kingdom

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 magazine set up by former Green Anarchist

Green Anarchist

The magazine Green Anarchist was for a while the principal voice in the UK advocating green anarchism, an explicit fusion of libertarian socialist and ecological thinking.-Early years:...

contributor and editor Richard Hunt

Richard Hunt (editor)

Richard Hunt is a green anarchist activist, and editor of various environmentalist magazines, such as Green Anarchist and Alternative Green. He was widely criticised in the anarchist community for his perceived sympathies for nationalism, and wrote an editorial for Green Anarchist expressing...

 in 1991 to promote the ideas later set out in his book 'To End Poverty, The Starvation of the Periphery by the Core' (1997).

Hunt founded the magazine after leaving the editorial collective of Green Anarchist. According to the remaining editors of Green Anarchist, this happened following a conflict over what was perceived to be his nationalistic

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

 tendencies. This came to a head when Green Anarchist published an article of Hunt's that appeared to give patriotic

Patriotism

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 support to Britain's role during the 1991 Gulf War

Gulf War

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. Hunt himself stated that the conflict arose when other editors wanted to move Green Anarchist's political direction further left, while Hunt wished to remain outside the left-right spectrum

Left-Right politics

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Alternative Green continued to promote Hunt's own vision of green anarchism

Green anarchism

Green anarchism, or ecoanarchism, is a school of thought within anarchism which puts a particular emphasis on environmental issues. An important early influence was the thought of the American anarchist Henry David Thoreau and his book Walden...

, and due to his policy of publishing articles from across the political spectrum, Alternative Green was strongly attacked by many anarchists and socialists. Green Anarchist publicly accused Hunt and Alternative Green of being fascist

Fascism

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, and writer Stewart Home

Stewart Home

Stewart Home is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess , his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love , and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red...

 published articles mocking both Green Anarchist and early issues of Alternative Green, claiming that they promote a kind of ecofascism

Ecofascism

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Alternative Green has no website (but see links to http://www.independentmercia.org ). It is not listed on the catalogue of the British Library

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 or the Copac

Copac

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union catalogue of UK research libraries.