Well done Zarah Sultana, well done Jeremy Corbyn!
Following Zarah Sultana MP’s resignation from the Labour Party and her appeal to people to join her and Jeremy Corbyn in founding a new left party, Left Unity Co-National Secretary, Felicity Dowling, made the following statement of support for the new project. “Well done Zarah Sultana, well done Jeremy Corbyn. We indeed need a mass […] Read more »
Let’s get this Party started!
Andrew Burgin writes: Last Thursday, the suspended Labour MP, Zarah Sultana, took a historic political step. She resigned from Labour, the party that she joined as a young teenager; in doing so, she declared her intention to work with others to found a new working-class party — a new party of the left. Many Labour […] Read more »
Say no to war and weapons spending: Oppose the NATO summit
As NATO leaders prepare to meet for a Summit in The Hague on the 24th and 25th June, the movement in the Netherlands, backed by the peace movement internationally, is organising a series of events over the weekend of 21st and 22nd of June. Read more »
No War on Iran
A statement from CND, following Israel’s attack on Iran: CND condemns Israel’s illegal attack on Iran, which is a violation of international law. Read more »
Comrades not strangers
A statement from the Jewish Socialists’ Group: The government’s latest attack on migrants, is a disgraceful manoeuvre designed to attract voters who they stereotype as ignorant, racist ultra-nationalists. Read more »
History is our Battleground
Walter Baier writes: This year marks a crucial moment in the struggle over historical memory. We commemorate the liberation of the concentration camps, the capitulation of the German Wehrmacht, and the end of Nazi barbarism on May 8/9, 1945. But what lessons have truly been learned? Fifty-five million people perished in the Second World War. […] Read more »
Victory In Europe Day – a tribute
Felicity Dowling writes: We rightly remember the heroism and sacrifices of all the peoples, all the men and women who fought fascism, from the Civil War in Spain to the dark days when fascism appeared to have won across much of Europe. That generation has nearly all passed. Those with living memory of that war […] Read more »
Support the Birmingham bin strikers
As the bin workers’ strike continues in Birmingham, please send what support you can: Read more »
No illusions: Trump and his friends will violate international law and all established rules!
Yorgos Mitralias writes: When, at the beginning of the century, the great American writer Philip Roth rewrote the history of his country with his extraordinary novel The Plot against America, by having the legendary pro-Nazi aviator Charles Lindbergh elected President of the United States instead of Franklin Roosevelt, Read more »
What the NHS needs: what we can do
Felicity Dowling writes: We protest at the lives lost, lives shortened, and the stress endured by families and staff in the NHS. This winter the staff of the NHS have worked hard, often in terrible conditions. Read more »
Trump’s back in office – what do we know so far?
Kate Hudson writes: First and foremost, he’s destroying everything that stands in the way of the far right agenda in the United States. The whole state system is being restructured to support the far-right agenda. Read more »
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Discussion & Debate
Sleepwalking into a Political Nighmare?
Allan Todd writes: “Fascism unites … the scattered masses… all the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy… Read more »
Just two laws – a warning from history
“The Far Right and creeping fascism … [are] rooted in the capitalist crisis Read more »
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Local reports
Stopping New Coal: Speakers’ Corner
YES to Just Transition and Climate Jobs – NO to the Whitehaven coalmine! Allan Todd writes: On Saturday 22 July, around 80 people – from trade unions and local campaign groups – gathered at the site of the proposed coal mine in Whitehaven, to hear a range of speakers talk about climate jobs for Cumbria, […] Read more »
Report: Northern March for the NHS
The Northern March for the NHS on July 1st in Leeds attracted about 600 supporters. The march was called by Keep Our NHS Public and 24 unions branches across the North. Read more »
Film review: Time to blow up a pipeline?!
Another month, and yet another set of news stories that graphically underline the indisputable fact that the Climate and Ecological Crises are continuing to worsen, and are thus impacting negatively on the lives of millions of people around the world: Read more »
National Humiliation for The Patriots in Leeds
On Saturday 10 June a mobilisation for the neo-Nazi Patriots was drowned out by a counter demo in Leeds. Read more »
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