Articles and Editorial

It’s not immigrants that failed to build the houses our economy needs and they don’t cause a race to the bottom on wages or conditions. Letter published in the Guardian, 10.01.17 A wave of hatred is sweeping Britain, with migrants blamed for a range of social ills. But migrants have not run down our public […] Read more »

Principal speaker Felicity Dowling writes Left Unity is proud to defend free movement: to support workers’ right to choose where they live and work. Support for all workers living and working in this country is crucial to the strength of the working class, to community cohesion and peace. It is crucial to our hopes for […] Read more »

Migrants are net contributors to society. All serious economic research has shown that migrants make a substantial net contribution to the British economy. Read more »

Susan Pashkoff looks at the new situation we face. We need to understand what the liberals already know but are unwilling to admit publicly; liberalism is in a deep crisis. The liberal wing of the ruling class has caught itself on the horns of a dilemma. On the one hand, the Liberals serve the interests […] Read more »

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 »

Kate Hudson,  national secretary of Left Unity attended a centenary conference at Verdum last weekend with others from the European left to discuss and debate some of the historical lessons from that period. The Battle of Verdun, lasting from 21 February to 18 December 1916, was one of the largest and longest battles of the […] Read more »

Left Unity national secretary Kate Hudson pays tribute to Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro stood for the liberation of humanity: not only for his own country Cuba whose struggle for freedom from US imperialism he led and won alongside Che Guevara; but also for the peoples of the world fighting for self determination, freedom from colonialism […] Read more »

Phil Hearse on the Trump victory The shocking victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections is a major turning point that is part of, and will give new momentum to, a surge to the right in world politics. The international situation is dealt with below, but for starters we should note that there […] Read more »

The film of the 1930s is running in slow motion. Across Europe, and now in the United States with the Trump victory, far right, racist politics are winning significant levels of popular support from across the economic spectrum – with support from affluent whites being crucial to Trump’s victory.  Millions are now supporting right wing […] Read more »