Articles and Editorial

As the housing crisis deepens, squatting is likely to increase, out of necessity more than as a political act. Since September last year, squatting  a residential property in England and Wales is a criminal offence, potentially carrying a prison sentence. The new legislation was supported by the Labour Party. Alex Reich from Haringey Left Unity talks […] Read more »

On 24 July representatives of Left Unity met with representatives of TUSC (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition). Will McMahon, a supporter of both, gives a flavour of the discussion and his personal impressions of the meeting. My impression of the first TUSC/Left Unity meeting that took place on Wednesday 24 July was that it was […] Read more »

              Dan is 32 and disabled.  His experience with ATOS, the Council Tax, and the Bedroom Tax is told in this short video made by Liam Wesson and Paul Barnett, Left Unity supporters in Staffordshire:  Read more »

Pedro Filipe Soares is a Left Bloc MP in the Portuguese parliament. Soares attend the first congress of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) from July 10-14. Syriza, a coalition of left groups, decided to become a new political party after it came close to winning elections on an anti-austerity platform last year. The […] Read more »

A crisis is an objective fact to which there can essentially be only two responses, says economist Michael Burke. The cause can be identified and addressed, or some other explanation can be advanced which effectively shifts the blame for the crisis elsewhere. The government and the supporters of austerity are increasingly bent on the second […] Read more »

The next European elections will he held in 2014. Will McMahon argues that British socialists should stand for a socialist Europe, but that this cannot be achieved within the context of the current European Union. Prior to the 1992 General Election the ostensibly socialist journal New Left Review No 191 carried an article ‘The Ruins […] Read more »

A supporter of the Morning Star/CPB, under the pseudonym ‘Michael Ford’, has written the most substantial rebuttal of the proposal to found a new Left Party – “Left Unity’s Modest Flutter”, posted on the LU site. Here Phil Hearse examines Ford’s arguments. Weighing in at more than 9000 words Ford’s article assesses almost every conceivable […] Read more »

On 29th June Sheffield Left Unity held a successful launch event in central Sheffield. Patrick Black, a Sheffield LU member, reports on the half-day event, which was attended by 45 people.  The Launch was opened with a heartfelt speech by Bianca Todd (Left Unity National Coordinating Group and Northampton LU). Bianca spoke with great conviction […] Read more »

In this guest post João Camargo, an Anti-Troika activist and book author based in Lisbon, writes about turbulent times inside the ruling PSD-CDS coalition and how the government narrowly saved itself from ultimate collapse last week. He argues that further resistance to the Troika of ECB, EU and IMF can deliver the final blow to […] Read more »

Mark Perryman explores what Andy Murray and the Lions tell us about sport’s impact on national identity “ The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people” Eric Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm’s acute observation concerning the impact of sport on national identity has been carted out so often that it […] Read more »