Articles and Editorial
Die Linke: Courtship with an eye on 2017
The latest developments in German politics should serve as a reality check for the ‘broad party’ advocates in this country, argues Ben Lewis For all the talk of the recent German elections being the most boring in memory, having been met with huge levels of apathy and indifference on the part of the population, the […] Read more »
1000 Founding Members
Simon Hardy from Left Unity on Sky News
Left Unity vs James Max on the latest Tory MP multi-millionaire. 8 November 2013 youtube link: Read more »
Another wakeup call on climate change
Super typhoon Haiyan, which smashed into the Philippines at the weekend, was the strongest storm ever recorded, with winds speeds of up to 220 miles an hour. It has created an apocalyptic situation in which no one knows how many are dead. The current figure is 10,000 and rising fast. There are close to a […] Read more »
The right to the city
The radical campaigning charity War On Want hosted an inspiring event on November 7th in London which drew attention to a topic that should be of great interest to supporters of Left Unity: the Right to the City. The leading urban geographer David Harvey defined this as *’far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is […] Read more »
Some Impressions of 5 November
‘Build a Bonfire! Build a Bonfire! Stick the Tories on the top. Put the Lib Dems in the middle and burn the bloody lot!’ On 5 November I made my way to the advertised People’s Assembly demonstration on Westminster Bridge. It was a traditional type of protest and not a particularly well-attended event. The highlight was the […] Read more »
Why the state matters and the USA still dominates capitalism worldwide
The Making of Global Capitalism – The Political Economy of American Empire By Leo Panitch and Sam Ginden (Verso Books 2012) Reviewed by Dave Kellaway ‘In today’s world the multinationals operate outside nation states, there is a new global capitalist order in which no nation state is dominant’ ‘ Europe was constructed against US […] Read more »
Books for an autumn of inspiration
Looking out across the grey expanse of middle ground politics Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football finds some books to provide dreams of a better tomorrow. As the almost instantly forgettable party conference season disappears over the horizon the Westminster bubble political landscape would be hard pushed to inspire anybody much at all. For hope of […] Read more »
Left Unity will fight for the poor if Labour won’t
Salman Shaheen brings the debate about Left Unity to the Huffington Post. Please contribute to the debate on the original post at that site. The storm has blown away the last of the summer. Winter is on its way. And for Britain’s poorest families, forced by a soaring cost of living and the government’s austerity […] Read more »
Exeter Together – Celebration of diversity to reject the EDL
Saturday 16 November assemble 10.30am Belmont Park, Exeter 11am March through town 12 noon Rally at Bedford Square The English Defence League (EDL) has announced its intention to hold a national March and Rally in Exeter on Saturday 16th November. The EDL is a violent, racist group riddled with fascists, dedicated to promoting hatred and […] Read more »
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