Articles and Editorial

This year marks the 50th anniversary of E.P.Thompson’s book The Making of the English Working Class. Barbara Segal, a member of Bristol Left Unity, attended a celebration of its author, E.P. Thompson, and came away with some ideas of what Left Unity might become. The Making of the English Working Class, first published in 1963, […] Read more »

Alternative Summit of the European Movements The Greek Working Group for the preparation of the Alter Summit has addressed the following call to the public. A spectre is haunting Europe: the self-organization and the resistance of the people against the dictatorship of the “free markets”, the multinationals, the Troika and the governments. The tens of […] Read more »

CND General Secretary, Kate Hudson, wrote the following post after hearing of the attack in Woolwich. We deplore the brutal murder of an unarmed British solider in Woolwich yesterday. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. Acts of violent retribution against individuals can never be justified as a response to the crimes of states […] Read more »

Edd Mustill reflects on the challenge of building left unity a hundred years ago It’s 1912, and socialists in Britain are asking themselves a lot of questions. Why, they wonder, were there so many different socialist groups? Why is the Labour Party unfit for purpose, not reflecting the interests of the class it is supposed […] Read more »

A member of Left Unity in Huddersfield gives us her thoughts. Hello, my name’s Char. I’m so pleased to be part of Left Unity. I have been dismayed by British politics since Blair’s time, the only party I can put a cross next to is the Green’s and as a born and bred socialist this […] Read more »

A voluntary sector worker explains the shift to corporate style working in the third sector and how employees and staff loose out. I’m focused on trying to build the labour movement in the voluntary sector. That is where i work, so that’s where i need to get involved with a union. Like most of voluntary […] Read more »

Richard Seymour’s speech at the Subversive festival in Zagreb I think the title of this talk, The Rise of a New Left, is clearly to some extent projection of a desired outcome; of course, there are elements of a New Left visible.  Not just the indignados and occupiers, but also the radical left challengers: Syriza, […] Read more »

If I hear the term ‘hardworking families’ once more I think I am going to scream, says Micheline Mason. They apparently are the only people worthy of our respect and support.  All the rest of us scrounging idle unmarried pretenders who contribute nothing and absorb huge proportions of the national income getting old and fat […] Read more »

Merry Cross of DPAC – In an earlier piece for Left Unity I told how the attacks on disabled people’s welfare rights should have served as an early warning to the Left of what was to follow. Whilst our fighting spirit rises, it is also true to say that many disabled people are now stressed […] Read more »

In the first article of a series, Phil Ward examines recent climate-change-induced extreme weather events and the response of the ruling class. A hard rain’s a gonna fall……. Bob Dylan remarks somewhere that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”. He forgot to add: you might need one to tell […] Read more »