Articles and Editorial

Left Unity Disabled Members Caucus Introduction The decision of Theresa May to call a snap General Election for the 8th June 2017 has caught everyone by surprise. The Left Unity Disabled Members Caucus were in the process of using the Spring Conference to launch a discussion on the type of policies we believe are necessary […] Read more »

Disabled people expect more from Labour Introduction The decision of Theresa May to call a snap General Election for the 8th June 2017 has caught everyone by surprise. Members of our Caucus are fully aware of the significance of this General Election for ordinary people but in particular sick and disabled people. In the communities […] Read more »

Ernie Tate’s latest message from America.  The new Trump administration has made NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States, a major issue in its relations with its two neighbours.  Recently, Trump has threatened to tear it up.  With his standard nationalist demagogy, he claims “previous bad trade deals”, […] Read more »

  Left Unity National Council condemns completely the witch-hunt against Ken Livingstone. This is being conducted by much of the mainstream media, the right wing of the Labour Party and supporters of the Israeli state in all parties. Left Unity makes a distinction between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, or the opposition to Zionist settler colonialism which supports […] Read more »

US President Donald Trump’s escalation of US militarism is now threatening to spiral out of control. He has already increased the defence budget by 54 billion dollars and pledged to strengthen and expand US nuclear weapons capacity. The most recent development is the firing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase, in the […] Read more »

Phil Hearse on Trump’s attack on Syria The Assad government’s April 4 chemical weapon attack on the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, which killed more than 100 people, once again demonstrated the barbarism of that regime, responsible for countless deaths, sadistic torture and the destruction of much of the country. But it is unlikely that […] Read more »

Left Unity congratulates the people of Ecuador and President Lenín Moreno on their electoral victory. With a participation rate of over 80%, the people of Ecuador have confounded those who have insisted that Latin America is destined to be governed again by the forces of the right. Ecuador has refused to become again a land […] Read more »

A discussion piece by Ian Parker from Socialist Resistance and Manchester Left Unity. The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party was a significant event in Britain, changing the terrain of politics at a time when things were generally already shifting to the right. The Brexit result in the referendum and the […] Read more »

The racist and xenophobic Leave campaign, together with the election of right-wing demagogue Donald Trump in the US, are part of a dangerous turn to the right in world politics. Since the referendum, one third of black and Asian people in this country have experienced some form of racism. EU citizens are being used as […] Read more »

Joseph Healy writes Left Unity mourns the loss of the Irish republican leader Martin McGuinness and we convey our condolences to his family and to his colleagues in Sinn Fein and the nationalist community in northern Ireland. He dedicated his life to ending the colonial status of northern Ireland and the brutality of British rule, […] Read more »