‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists

Zack Polanski on the campaign trail for the Holborn and St Pancras byelection in London Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press/Shutterstock Zack Polanski on the campaign trail for the Holborn and St Pancras byelection in London Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press/Shutterstock Zack Polanski ‘Watermelons’: Zack Polanski and the rise of the ‘green outside, red inside’ eco-populists Author Russell Warfield argues the Green leader’s brand of politics is not new but has evolved in the party over time

Prefer the Guardian on Google W atermelons: the term used to describe the members of the Green party of England and Wales who are green on the outside and red on the inside. People in this faction are environmentalists but bleed socialist ideologies.