Articles and Editorial

This is an article by Josiah Mortimer, a Green Party member and Left Unity supporter from York. It was originally posted at brightgreenscotland.org  It’s a question many Greens are asking themselves – whether to put their names to the Left Unity project, the nascent party which has thus far seen nearly 10,000 people sign up […] Read more »

Bob Williams-Findlay explores the political question of ‘disability’  What is disability? If you were to ask a mixed group of disabled and non-disabled people this question the chances are that the number of answers given could almost add up to the same number as those present in the room! The problem is that there are […] Read more »

London: Downing Street, 5—7pm, Wednesday 28th August Britain, France and the US are committing to another disastrous military intervention. Apart from the inevitable casualties, any attack on Syria can only inflame an already disastrous civil war and would risk pulling in regional powers further. Most people in this country have learnt from the disasters of […] Read more »

CND general secretary Kate Hudson shares her recent blog post on why we should oppose attacks on Syria. We oppose any military attack on Syria. Such actions will only exacerbate this bloody civil war and risk drawing neighbouring states into the conflict. The alleged use of chemical weapons within Syria is to be condemned in […] Read more »

Although the ideas for this article have been floating around for some time, it was the publication of the article and short discussion on Left Unity representatives, that has spurred me to put some of these to pen and to paper, creating the more lengthy article below, writes Dave Edwards. It is perhaps a truism, […] Read more »

Ed Bauer, a supporter of Birmingham based Communities Against The Cuts reports from the Reclaim the Power camp in Balcombe, Sussex The Sussex town of Balcombe has played host to Reclaim the Power, a protest camp targeting the site of a fracking bid by the controversial firm Cuadrilla. Many of the headlines on the day […] Read more »

What role can our elected representatives have in the defence of our living and working conditions? Walsall Democratic Labour Party councillor Pete Smith recently sent the following letter to the Walsall Advertiser: Last year I was the only Councillor (out of 60) who actually voted AGAINST the multi-million pound Walsall Council budget cuts for 2012/13 […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway, from Hackney Left Unity, reviews Elysium (102 mins) Directed by Neill Blomkamp, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. All science fiction films are like the future perfect tense, they have to have a connection between our present lives and sometime in the future. If they don’t they become too dense and incomprehensible. However […] Read more »

It is very likely that soon Left Unity will be established as a new political party, says Tim Nelson from Bristol Left Unity. It is obvious that none of us want it to be yet another small fringe organisation, but instead we hope to build a new mass party, rooted in the working class. It […] Read more »

It may be thought that it is rather premature to discuss the role of possible future Left Unity Party Councillors, MPs, MEPs, etc, when we don’t even have a proper Party yet, says John Penney from Crewe Left Unity.  However, differing opinions which have already emerged in discussions on the LU Policy Commissions site, suggest […] Read more »