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After DWP’s fake benefit stories, sanctions should be scrapped

Responding to news that the DWP has admitted fabricating stories from benefit claimants on a leaflet, Salman Shaheen of Left Unity said: “It’s no wonder the DWP has been caught making up tall tales when its rhetoric is so far from reality. “The government claims benefit sanctions help people – but it can’t find a […] Read more »


‘We do not need our young people in boot camps’

As the Tories announce ‘boot camps’ for young unemployed people, Felicity Dowling of Left Unity said: “We do not need our young people in boot camps. We need free university and real, skill-based, well-paid apprenticeships – not punitive measures. “We need real jobs for social need. We need teachers and teaching assistants, nursery nurses, a […] Read more »


Refugees are not trying to ‘break in’, they are seeking safety

A Left Unity press release. Read more »


Response to Tony Blair article

Responding to Tony Blair’s comments on the Labour leadership contest, Salman Shaheen of Left Unity said: “Tony Blair must be worried about the possibility of Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in case he ends up in The Hague on trial for war crimes. “This is the man who left Iraq to burn, with a million of its […] Read more »


Response to Times accusations of Labour ‘infiltration’

Press release responding to the Times’ front page accusing Left Unity members of ‘infiltrating’ the Labour Party Read more »


Response to Labour ‘infiltration’ reports

Responding to newspaper accusations that Labour has been ‘infilitrated’ by the left, Salman Shaheen of Left Unity said: “Right wing Labour MPs are saying Labour has been ‘infiltrated’. In a week when the majority of Labour MPs abstained on the brutal cuts in the welfare bill, who are the real infiltrators? “Is it the people […] Read more »


How dare Labour abstain on the welfare bill?

Responding to Labour’s abstention on the Welfare Bill, Felicity Dowling of Left Unity said: Read more »


Response to Osborne budget

Responding to the budget, Salman Shaheen of Left Unity said: “Raising inheritance tax thresholds while capping benefits is robbing Pete to pay Rupert Giles Bullingdon III. “Osborne calls it a ‘low tax, low welfare society’ – but it’s the rich who get the low tax and the poor who get the low welfare. The inheritance […] Read more »


Greece: ‘This will be a No heard around the world’

Responding to the Greek referendum results, Pete Green of Left Unity said: Read more »


Response to Greek referendum announcement

Salman Shaheen of Left Unity said: “We welcome Syriza’s decision to call a referendum on these proposals. Like Alexis Tsipras, we have been appalled by the despicable blackmail Greece has faced. “The people of Greece voted against austerity but Europe’s leaders have been trying to destroy the democratically elected Syriza government. “Now Greece is re-asserting […] Read more »



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Slow marches are still legal (so LOW RISK of arrest), and are extremely effective. The plan is to keep up the pressure on this ecocidal government to stop all new fossil fuel licences.

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Ceasefire NOW! Stop the Genocide in Gaza: Assemble 12 noon Hyde Park Corner to the US Embassy

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