National

Andrew Burgin, from the Left Unity EC, on a potentially key development in the emerging struggles against the cost of living crisis. The latest Cornwall Insight prediction for energy prices is that October will see an 81% increase in the price cap taking an average or typical bill to £3,582 a year. Read more »

Doug Thorpe reports: The Housing and Planning Act 2016 received Royal Assent on 12 May 2016. The House of Lords had passed a number of amendments to the Bill. But after a process of the amendments going back and forth between Commons and Lords (official known as ‘ping pong’) the Lords agreed to drop (or […] Read more »

RMT member Kieran Crowe from Barnet Left Unity reports on the campaign to defend Mark Harding Last night, around a hundred people gathered in a small Camden pub to meeting called by the RMT union at incredibly short notice.  They were to show their support for Mark Harding, a longstanding RMT activist, representative and local […] Read more »

Karen Michael, a long time Labour party member has resigned from the party and is now one of the founders of Left Unity in Norwich. This is her resignation letter. The Labour Party Labour Central, Kings Manor Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6PA Re. Membership in the Labour Party: I hereby resign my membership and affiliation […] Read more »

Andrew Burgin reports on the moves to found a European Eco-Socialist network The increasing ecological crisis and impending environmental catastrophe that we all face, is leading more on the left to recognise that we have to be both red and green in our politics – we have to be ecosocialist. One without the other is […] Read more »

Playwright and campaigner David Wilson pays tribute to the life of Roger Lloyd-Pack who died yesterday. Roger was a committed socialist, a supporter of Left Unity and was also a founding signatory of the People’s Assembly movement set up last year. Best known for his role as ‘Trigger’ in ‘Only Fools and Horses’, Roger Lloyd-Pack […] Read more »

A tribute to graphic artist Leon Kuhn Leon Kuhn political cartoonist and activist died recently in London aged 59. Leon was a regular contributor of cartoons to The Morning Star. He strove in his artwork to lampoon the rich and powerful in society. Leon always took the side of the working class .For Leon art […] Read more »

Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football offers ten resolutions to spice up how we enjoy the sports we love in 2014 Too much Christmas pud, cake and ale over the seasonal break? Feet up in front of the TV for an indecent chunk of the duration? Sport defined as watching it rather than doing it? The […] Read more »

Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football provides a guide for books to give the Leftist in your life this Christmas Cheer up, it could be worse? Well, under this hapless government probably not but a bit of seasonal present-giving might at least keep the temptations of miserabilism at bay. 2014 will mark the start of the […] Read more »

   Sonia Mitralia, Athens We already knew that violence against women is often used as a weapon in times of war to punish, humiliate and dehumanise, but especially to repress and annihilate by all possible means the population to which they belong. This violence has often been seen as a means of domination rather than […] Read more »