Articles and Editorial

David Wilson who is now the Left Unity organiser for Islington North reflects on the state of society that has led him to join up. Our political system is built on massive corruption, obscene wealth in the hands of the 1%, racism at home, wars abroad and the deliberate rape and wastage of the earth’s […] Read more »

Over the last two weeks more than 7,000 people have signed up to the call to discuss a new party of the Left in Britain. Across the country more than 70 local groups have been formed which are not only discussing how to set up this party but taking action as well – whether against […] Read more »

Trade union activist Ellenor Hutson and her beautiful baby share some thoughts on the Bedroom Tax I am sitting in the community centre on my estate, attending a meeting on the Bedroom Tax. 25 people have turned out. Not too bad for a weekday evening, but then these are worried people. A lot of them […] Read more »

  Eric Toussaint of the CADTM Belgium argues global austerity policies have nothing to do with cutting fiscal debt and the IMF agrees.   IMF declarations that do not please European leaders In October 2012, the IMF provided a key explanation of why the crisis was getting worse in Europe. Its Research Department wrote that […] Read more »

  Keston Sutherland is the new Left Unity organiser for Brighton. He is a lecturer at Sussex university where he has given the students full support in their recent occupation. I am a 36 year old Brighton resident and a Reader in English working at the University of Sussex. I teach poetry, Marxist theory, Samuel Beckett […] Read more »

George Venizelos examines the current economic crisis in Cyprus and looks at its political and economic roots. The Eurogroup’s decision to proceed to a haircut on Cypriot savings accounts has caused mass discontent amongst the people of Cyprus and beyond. The decision of 15th March left the Cypriots shocked, angry, betrayed and swindled, after seeing […] Read more »

The latest growth data confirm that Ireland went back into recession at the end of 2012. Despite all the talk about corners being turned, we find that economy is going backwards, says economist Michael Burke. GDP is lower than it was in 2009. GNP, which does not include the effects of movements in profits by […] Read more »

Peter Hill responds to Ed Rooksby’s recent article on this website. Rooksby outlines three possible models for left-wing organization in Britain, which are emerging, he argues, in ’embryonic form’. The first is the ‘networked movement of the Left’ called for by Owen Jones, ‘which would encompass activists from both within and outside the Labour Party’; the […] Read more »

The cause of left unity in the face of an all-out assault on the working class by this Conservative government has never been more necessary nor more urgent, says Salman Shaheen. But if Left Unity passes its first hurdle, bringing together the myriad squabbling clans who can sometimes seem to spend as much time attacking […] Read more »

I’m sick of feeling unrepresented, says Adam Roden. I’m sick of my only choice being Labour, a party that maybe once, long ago, would have been the right choice. I’m sick of the Right-wing parties of this country having all the drive, all the ideas, all the tub-thumping, crowd pleasing rhetoric (however much I might […] Read more »