Articles and Editorial

  Kate Hudson reports from the 36th Congress of the French Communist Party in Paris Confit duck legs for a thousand? No problem. The French Communist Party displayed its strengths this week in more ways than one. Its 36th Congress opened in the Docks d’Aubervilliers, a former industrial estate on the northern fringes of Paris […] Read more »

Sophie Katz writes on the latest Left Unity meeting Time to Party On the 4th of Feb a ‘November 14 Left Unity’ group held a meeting about a new party. Good turn out. Not too old. Some interesting points made. Everybody tried very hard not to be sectarian. Lots of self-criticism about ‘my old organisation.’ […] Read more »

Leftist Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has maintained a huge lead over his nearest opposition rival in the run-up to the February 17 elections, recent polls show. Correa’s popularity has remained above 50 percent throughout his six years in office, buoyed by his personal charisma as well as his government’s heavy spending on hospitals, roads and […] Read more »

    Against privatisation: Statement from Sussex University Occupation February 8th 2013 Following a demonstration of over 300 staff and students in opposition to the privatisation of services at Sussex University; a large group of people have occupied the conference centre on the top floor of Bramber House. In May 2012, the University announced its unilateral […] Read more »

Last night construction workers from Unite blocked Oxford Street in the heart of London’s West End to protest against the insidious policy of blacklisting. Thousands of construction workers are on Blacklists in the UK and many have had their lives ruined by this secret and  shameful practice. MPs have called this a national scandal. The […] Read more »

No to selling off the stock! Sussex occupation underway now! Sussex students have occupied Bramber conference centre. Solidarity demo outside Bramber at 5 p.m today [Thursday]. The occupation is in opposition to the University selling off services.Messages of support to – sussexagainstprivatization@gmail.comsussexagainstprivatization.wordpress.com Left Unity sends its solidarity to the occupation and to the students and […] Read more »

At the heart of this new political project is the realisation that it is necessary to build a European-wide movement. We need co-ordinated action with others fighting capitalism across the continent. We saw the beginning of this when millions took strike action across Europe on November 14th last year.   We were very pleased that there […] Read more »

The Greek government is once again using emergency measures to try and stop strike action in Greece, writes Andrew Burgin. Two weeks ago the government sent the riot police into the Athens Metro workers’ headquarters and threatened union leaders with imprisonment if they dared to continue their strike.  This time it is the turn of […] Read more »

By Don Milligan Introduction Revolutionary Socialism is an emancipatory project, and in order to succeed, it must find positive means of realization and expression, as a precondition to its assumption of state power. For revolutions to succeed be they violent or peaceful, swift or protracted, they must be expressions of social forms that are already […] Read more »

Dur­ing the clos­ing months of 2012, Slov­e­nia saw a series of mass pop­u­lar protests. Here, the movements in Slovenia explain why they are protesting and the nature of the changes they are fighting for. Thirty thou­sand demon­strat­ors gathered on Novem­ber 17 for the first protest, organ­ised by trade uni­ons, stu­dents, and organ­isa­tions of retired people and […] Read more »