Editorial

Joseph Healy, principal speaker for Left Unity, attended the recent Plan B conference in Copenhagen. This is his report. The Plan B for Europe conference I attended two weeks ago in Copenhagen was organised by the Danish Red-Green Alliance and the Swedish Left Party. Unsurprisingly most of the attendees were Scandinavians, although there were delegates […] Read more »

Left Unity reports on the election  in Austria and Italy’s referendum. Sunday’s Austrian presidential election represented a significant defeat for the onward march of the far right in Europe. Although the Austrian presidency is mainly ceremonial, a victory for Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer over former Green leader Alexander van der Bellen would have put […] Read more »

Simon Hardy argues we need solidarity and open borders to deal with the refugee humanitarian crisis Read more »

  The continuing political and economic crisis in Ukraine is taking a dangerous military turn. Left Unity takes the position that there can only be a political solution to this crisis and that neither foreign military intervention nor foreign political and economic intervention provide the answers to Ukraine’s complex problems. Whether under the flag of […] Read more »

Recently in Ukraine for an academic conference, Luke Cooper had the opportunity for a discussion with some of the participants in the ‘EuroMaidan’ movement, and to visit the encampment in Independence Square. In an attempt to understand the historical and social origins of the country’s mass protests, the following are some of his observations. Cultural […] Read more »

  As Left Unity was formed to build a new party of the working class surely one of the priorities of this task is to learn the lessons of the history of the Labour Party to examine how it failed in its task of achieving socialism. I am presenting these two articles by Bill Hunter […] Read more »

Daryl Taylor on a real Citizenship Education “IT IS NOT ALWAYS THE SAME THING TO BE A GOOD MAN AND A GOOD CITIZEN” said Aristotle. It may seem bizarre as a socialist to quote Aristotle of all people, but it is this sentence which made me reconsider my depressingly dull role as an administrator, enter […] Read more »

  “We must find new ways to excite, delight, inspire and give hope”.   These were the words of members from Leicester Left Unity, speaking from the platform at our Founding Conference. They were referring to the use of the Arts as a vital element of bringing about social change. Their Branch has decided to […] Read more »

Mel Kelly of Glasgow Left Unity makes the case for a vote for Left Unity Our grandfathers and great grandfathers stood shoulder to shoulder against the corrupt and greedy of other nations to ensure democracy and the wealth of our nation was preserved for future generations – standing up to those who wanted to pilllage […] Read more »

John Tummon muses on the question of Left Unity in the regions Lambeth LU’s amendment No 26 would have moved LU towards a federal structure, whilst at the same time seriously cutting our regional capacity, in the name of strengthening branches; I was very pleased to see it defeated but, after that, the Wigan amendment […] Read more »