Articles and Editorial

MPs have overwhelmingly agreed to let the government begin the UK’s departure from the EU in their final vote on the Brexit bill. The draft legislation was approved by 494 votes to 122, and now moves to the Lords. Labour’s shadow business secretary Clive Lewis quit the front bench rather than follow party orders to […] Read more »

One of the most important areas of work for socialists in Europe in the period of Trump will be to establish ongoing working political relationships with comrades in the US and Canada. To that end Left Unity will increase our coverage of politics across the pond. We will begin with a new ‘letter from North […] Read more »

 A Left Unity comment piece on the early days of Trump’s presidency There’s a storm coming Donald Trump’s first ten days in office have brought a blitzkrieg of reactionary measures, from banning Muslims from seven states from the US, to ordering the start of his bizarre wall with Mexico, ordering a botched military raid in […] Read more »

From our latest newsletter. Millions of people in the US and across the world have taken to the streets to protest the racist, sexist and homophobic policies of the new US President Donald Trump. In the UK we have seen dozens of such protests with three huge mobilizations alone in central London. A new movement […] Read more »

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Calling all members: Would you like to stand for an elected position in Left Unity? Left Unity’s internal election process is beginning now and will be completed by the end of March.  Read more »

Left Unity Comment on Theresa May’s desperate search for political deals with dictators Stomach churning. That’s the only way to describe Theresa May’s love-ins on successive days with aspirant dictator Donald Trump and Turkey’s fully fledged version, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Both visits were brilliant endorsements and photo-ops for these extreme right wing politicians, but will […] Read more »

Joseph Healy looks at the political crisis in Northern Ireland A crisis has arisen in Northern Ireland with new elections scheduled for the Northern Irish Assembly soon. Trust has broken down between the two leading parties under the power sharing agreement – Sinn Fein and the DUP – with Sinn Fein’s Martin Mc Guiness pulling […] Read more »

As Donald Trump becomes President of the USA, Left Unity Principal Speaker  Felicity Dowling sends solidarity greetings to all those fighting for a better world: “I am sending Solidarity greetings to friends, sisters, brothers, comrades and protesters around the world, to all who have the guts to say, on this day of all days, that […] Read more »

A long form piece from London based US feminist activist Susan Pashkoff on how Trump will deepen the war on women in the States. For those that have been watching the right-wing war on women for at least a decade, people may think that all we are going to see is a continuation of the […] Read more »