Articles and Editorial

I learned a lot in our last Left Unity meeting in Wandsworth, reports Micheline Mason. I learned about the Workers’ Party of Ireland from Paul; I learned about growing up under a military dictatorship in Ethiopia from Gelila, and from her I also learned how some Christians think about the term ‘left’ (i.e. on the […] Read more »

Sophie Katz extends her first commentary on the situation in Egypt. It is often a mistake to comment from afar but the British media is so appalling and the Internet so full of trash it is difficult to hear genuine voices from the Egyptian left in these crucial hours. But great events pile on great […] Read more »

It is a puzzle for everybody with revolutionary and democratic instincts what to think about the Egyptian coup, says Sophie Katz. It is not of course a problem for Britain’s popular ‘commentariat’ who trumpet their clichés about everybody else’s failure to abide by the rule of law and shamefully remind their readers of the horrors […] Read more »

Sophie Katz looks at past attempts in setting up left of Labour alternatives and considers what the left in Britain should do today. The first time that the issue of replacing the LP with another mass party came up as a strategy (actually the first time the main thesis of the British Road to Socialism […] Read more »

The latest GDP release from the Office for National Statistics was accompanied by a set of revisions to previous data. These now show that the downturn was more severe than had previously been estimated and that the British economy is even further away from recovery, says economist Michael Burke. Previously, ONS data had shown that […] Read more »

One of the biggest components of opposition to the austerity measures in Spain has centred around housing, with the harsh mortgage laws having led to mass evictions. In a recent development in Andalucia, Izquierda Unida has been instrumental in passing a law to expropriate repossessed houses from the banks. Elsewhere Spanish workers are refusing to […] Read more »

  The recent decision of the Greek Prime Minister, Samaras, to close down the public television and radio stations, caused a large mobilization and resulted in a crisis of the governmental coalition, reports Stavros Panagiotidis. Since that day, representatives of trade unions, student unions, workers federations, party leaders, MPs, members of all left parties and […] Read more »

  A historical uprising has resulted in new practices, potentially very fruitful for closer investigation for progressives in both Europe and the Middle East, says Ekim Caglar.  Finally the progressives had the power to shake the hegemony and be in the centre of Turkish politics for a while. It all started with the trees in […] Read more »

Orsan Senalp reports on the massive June Days mobilisation in Turkey and highlights the music produced in solidarity with the protests, including some of the best known musical and video products of the June Days. Last Saturday (22 June) hundreds of  thousands gathered in Taksim Square to commemorate martyred comrades of the resistance. However while people […] Read more »

The Finnish Left Alliance held its party congress during June 8-9 in Tampere, Finland, reports Ruurik Holm. The congress approved a visionary and programmatic paper Red-Green Future, which outlines the central features of a red-green society and describes what kind of measures need to be taken for achieving it. For example, economic growth is not […] Read more »