Articles and Editorial

Below is a statement from the Greek secondary teachers’ union OLME, calling for solidarity and reporting on today’s situation:   THE MEMORANDA POLICY HURT PUBLIC EDUCATION NO TO CIVIL MOBILISATION ORDERS FOR SCHOOLTEACHERS Public education and teachers’ working conditions in Greece are suffering a strong blow once again by the government and the Troika. In […] Read more »

Ken Loach’s speech to the Left Uinty meeting on Saturday. Well done to everybody for organising today and coming along. It’s brilliant that we’ve made this start. For some of us it’s a new challenge, for most of it’s the triumph of hope over experience. Some of us have been through left projects and have […] Read more »

Left Unity prides itself in not having any existing political groups involved on an official level – which is exactly its problem, says Tina Becker from Sheffield Left Unity and the CPGB About 100 people attended the first national gathering of Left Unity on May 11 in London’s Ambassador Hotel. The gathering certainly succeeded in […] Read more »

Pete McClaren is a member of Rugby Left Unity Group The first national Left Unity meeting had been organised by an ad-hoc Organising Committee for up to two representatives of each of the 80+ local Left Unity (LU) groups.  It followed the call for people to sign up to discussing the need for a new […] Read more »

Micheline Mason is a member of Wandsworth Left Unity, and pleased to be part of the Left Unity ‘adventure’. Here are some of her thoughts on Saturday’s meeting: I am so pleased to be part of this adventure, right from the beginning.  I felt more at home in that lovely, warm, messy, slightly chaotic gathering […] Read more »

Annie Higgs from Oxford Left Unity writes to us about Saturday’s meeting and the future Dear Left Unity I’ve just set up my direct debit for membership to Left Unity, an organisation that isn’t yet fully fledged. It’s not a huge one but I can afford it and it’s regular. I do, however, realise that […] Read more »

  Bianca Todd is the Left Unity organiser for Northampton and she is one of the ten people elected at the Left Unity meeting last Saturday as part of the new national co-ordinating committee.    I am the grand-daughter of former general secretary of the TGWU Ron Todd and the assumption that can be made […] Read more »

    These are the results for the ten directly elected places on the new Left Unity National Co-ordinating Committee. At our first national meeting we agreed the procedure for electing the NCC The procedure is: Local group reps elected by the local groups, one per group, where the group has at least 5 members […] Read more »

Liz Gray from Leicester Left Unity on yesterday’s national meeting The morning began with introductions and what you might broadly call statements of attitude and belief: it was interesting to hear where people were coming from and what they wanted from the group, where they thought it should go and what they might bring to […] Read more »

I would like to thank Louise for her contribution in telling us ‘how it is’, says Jenny Slaughter, Left Unity’s new contact person in Hebden Bridge.  I would also like to thank her for not bringing Marx, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Rosa Luxemburg or Gramsci et al into her discussion because, try as I might, it […] Read more »