Articles and Editorial

Left Unity’s 2016 National Conference recommits ‘to the radical socialist principles of our party’ Read more »

  Paul Clarke writes The proposal by Theresa May and her Brexit cabinet to substantially increase the number of grammar schools is a further step towards entrenching class privilege – despite their false claim that grammar schools increase social mobility. It is a part of a series of measures aimed at refocusing working class education […] Read more »

Phil Hearse explains how the world’s richest company rips off workers and governments worldwide. The ruling by EU competition commissioner Margarethe Vestager that Apple should pay the Irish government €13.2 bn, because the derisory 2% tax charged on Apple profits was ‘unfair’ to other companies, reveals just a tiny corner of the tax, labour and […] Read more »

By Andrew Burgin We need to campaign actively against little Brexit Britain and the stripping away of our rights, and chief among those campaigns must be to defend the right to free movement. There are many aspects of life in Britain that those who voted leave hope will improve with Brexit. On holiday in Suffolk […] Read more »

By Dick Nichols August 2, 2016 It is hard to imagine a sharper contrast than that between the 10th National Convention of Portugal’s Left Bloc, held in Lisbon from June 24 to 26, and its predecessor, held in the same city 18 months ago. In 2014, the 9th National Convention of the radical left force […] Read more »

The Way Out of This Crisis is not Declaring State of Emergency, but Democracy 21/07/2016 Five days after the coup attempt on 15th of July, the NSC and Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency in the country. This step shows the coup attempt might have been blocked, but the desire to rule the country […] Read more »

Left Unity comment on the attempted coup in Turkey No socialist or democrat could support the attempted coup in Turkey launched by sections of the army on the evening of 15 July – despite the ultra-reactionary and repressive nature of the Recep Erdogan’s  government the plotters wanted to overthrow We support the call of HDP […] Read more »

Neil Faulkner writes – It took the Brexit racism of Johnson, Gove, and Farage to make the EU popular. Some 50,000 people wanted to demonstrate on Tuesday night until the organisers caved in to police pressure and called it off. Some thousands still turned up. Now at least 50,000 have actually demonstrated, marching from Hyde […] Read more »

Andrew Burgin As the referendum result was announced at Glastonbury Festival there were spontaneous demonstrations by young festival goers, hugely dismayed at the outcome. Many of those protesting won’t have voted – only 36% of 18-24 years olds went to the ballot box – but those that did voted in overwhelming numbers for Remain. Many […] Read more »

Dave Landau from Islington Left Unity reports on the shocking escalation in hate crime since the referendum The Referendum campaign was from the outset poisonous and immigration was always at its centre.  Cameron was bounced into promising a referendum by pressure from UKIP riding a wave of anti-migrant sentiment. On both sides the mainstream campaigns […] Read more »