Articles and Editorial

   Sonia Mitralia, Athens We already knew that violence against women is often used as a weapon in times of war to punish, humiliate and dehumanise, but especially to repress and annihilate by all possible means the population to which they belong. This violence has often been seen as a means of domination rather than […] Read more »

‘During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which […] Read more »

Don Milligan looks at founding conference LEFT UNITY, the new political party of socialists to the left of Labour. was formed on Saturday at the Royal National Hotel in Woburn Place, Bloomsbury. A fine big room was booked and just under five hundred of us filed in to sit row upon row on ballroom chairs […] Read more »

  Impressions of founding conference by Stuart Watkins of the Leamington Spa branch When I first heard about Left Unity, I signed up immediately, but was sceptical and nervous. Whose stitch-up was this? Behind the façade of starting a national conversation about the kind of party we need, who was preparing the answers for us, […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling from Liverpool Left Unity gives some initial thoughts about the party’s founding conference It took till the small hours to drive home from Conference and I am still tired so apologies if this is short and sweet. Even while we met in Conference further horrors from the Tories came to light. By profession […] Read more »

A report from the founding conference of our new party, Left Unity, by Micheline Mason Just look at the energy in this photograph of our Founding Conference. I came away feeling something momentous had happened and very pleased to have been part of it. Maybe the world won’t realise just how important a move we […] Read more »

Greek university education is going through the most critical phase in its entire history, because the Ministry of Education is implementing a harsh mobility scheme for the administrative and technical staff of the country’s eight largest universities, reports Sissy Velissariou. This scheme calls for mandatory transfers that in fact disguise the truth – that the […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway Andrew Murray, a leading advisor to Len McCluskey (Unite general secretary) and a Morning Star supporter, has published a twenty page article in this year’s Socialist Register criticising the choice we have made in developing the Left Unity  project, as a political alternative to the Labour Party (LP). Murray spoke at the recent […] Read more »

  As Left Unity nears our formal Lift-Off, John Tummon says we need to take full account of the nature of political literacy in 21st century Britain.   As a regular viewer of the BBC-1 Quiz ‘Pointless’, which assesses contestants by how obscure their knowledge is in comparison to 100 people given the same questions […] Read more »

 John Penney from Crewe Left Unity examines building a radical counter narrativeAcross the mass media a ”big lie” message is currently being pumped out, ie,  that the Tory/Lib Dem economic strategy is working and the recent upturn in the UK GDP figures shows the UK is “on the road to recovery”.  As evidence of this […] Read more »