Articles and Editorial

Left Unity is republishing the statement from the Jewish Socialists’ Group on antisemitism and the Labour Party which reflects our position on this question. Antisemitism exists and must be exposed and fought against in the same way as other forms of racism by all who are concerned with combating racism and fascism. Antisemitism and anti-Zionism […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling on the verdict in the Hillsborough inquest The 96 Liverpool Fans were unlawfully killed, says the Hillsborough jury. The police were culpable. The fans were not at fault.  The stadium was at fault. The response of the police and ambulance services were at fault. People could have been saved had the ambulances reacted […] Read more »

The Left Unity National Council met on the 23rd April and agreed to release the following statement in support of Sadiq Khan and Malia Bouattia. Left Unity condemns the shameful racist and Islamophobic attacks on both London Mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan and the newly-elected NUS President Malia Bouattia. Rather than having an open and democratic […] Read more »

Andrew Burgin argues for a ‘Remain’ vote in the forthcoming referendum. On June 23rd the British people will vote on whether to stay in or leave the European Union. The European project is facing the most profound crisis in its history driven by the subordination of the European Union not to the needs of its […] Read more »

Steve Jefferys reports from France Where do Europe’s fascist-origin, populist and nationalist political parties stand on Brexit? Jumping for joy! They are lapping up the forward march of Leave in UK opinion polls. Until now they thought Cameron’s blatant electioneering manoeuvre to win voters away from UKIP was just that. The UK was certain to […] Read more »

Fred Leplat on the People’s Assembly demo next Saturday. The Tories are facing their biggest crisis yet. The revelation of David Cameron’s stake in his father’s off shore tax haven, proves that this is a government for the privileged few, not for the majority. This shows beyond all doubt that Cameron is divorced from the […] Read more »

Stuart King gives us a first hand account of the on-going occupation of the Carnegie library in Lambeth. The local council want ot close the library and re-open it with a private gym. DAY 3  – SATURDAY The occupation gives an interview with London Live TV at 9.00am. We got a mention in the Bookseller. […] Read more »

Junior Doctors in England are taking strike action again today for the fourth time. On many picket lines they were joined by teachers who are preparing their own action to defend education and by patients showing solidarity with the action of the doctors. Simon Pirani reports from the picket line at Queen Elizabeth hospital. Junior […] Read more »

  Phil Hearse examines the corrupt state of capitalism   The Panama Papers’ revelations about the rich and powerful hiding untold billions in ‘offshore’ tax havens may be shocking, but it’s hardly a surprise to anyone who knows the first thing about the way that big business works. We are living through a blitzstorm of […] Read more »

A statement from Left Unity in Wales on the steel crisis. The crisis in steel is not being produced by any one country but is another outcome of the failure of capitalism to pull out of the financial crisis of 2007-08, as is the wider collapse in the price of commodities. Workers in no country […] Read more »