Articles and Editorial

Tonight England vs Brazil at Wembley marks the start of the FA’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations. Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman  busts the myth of Britain’s right to footballing supremacy and argues that it is the perfect time to lower our expectations of England’s chances. England vs Brazil, friendly or no friendly, is a tasty international fixture […] Read more »

This is a call to all those millions of people in Britain who face an impoverished and uncertain year as their wages, jobs, conditions and welfare provision come under renewed attack by the government. With some 80% of austerity measures still to come, and with the government lengthening the time they expect cuts to last, […] Read more »

Award-winning children’s author and campaigner, Alan Gibbons, discusses the way forward for the Left The world is in crisis. The global economy continues to struggle. The World Bank’s report on Global Economic Prospects manages to argue simultaneously that financial market conditions have improved dramatically since June 2012, but that “the real-side recovery is weak and […] Read more »

Last night 25 comrades – some representing left organisations and some individuals met at Conway Hall in central London to continue the discussion around the recomposition of the left. We will be carrying a series of short reports about the meeting from those attending. First from Tom Walker who was until recently a full-time journalist […] Read more »

In early January 2013, Doug Enaa Greene of the Boston Occupier interviewed Despina Lalaki on the current situation in Greece. Despina Lalaki  is a sociology doctoral candidate at The New School University and Lecturer at the A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies, New York University; and her writings have appeared on Al Jazeera. Lalaki is also involved […] Read more »

By Ian Bone Former Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, currently Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh in Hampshire, will be standing down after pleading guilty to perverting the cause of justice. Ian Bone looks at the possibilities for the right wing party UKIP in the forthcoming by-election. The Eastleigh by-election will give UKIP the long awaited opportunity to win a parliamentary […] Read more »

Health Policy Commission Continues its’ Work Duncan Parker is the convenor for the Health policy commission. This is a renewed call out for any Left Unity activists who wish to get involved in the Health Policy Commission. The aim of the policy commission is to continue to develop principles for the sort of wider healthcare […] Read more »

Billed as a remembrance rally, the event in central Athens on 2 February attracted a crowd of 30,000 to honour three “fallen heroes” of the party. Men dressed in military fatigues, baseball caps and swastikas lit torches and fired flares, chanting anti-immigration slogans. “We are winning the hearts and minds of the people, because we […] Read more »

By  Simon Hardy There is a crisis at the heart of the left in Britain. It is most acute in the SWP, where the bureaucratism and lack of democracy have exploded into an incredibly damaging public explosion around the handling of a rape allegation against a senior party leader. But this is also partly reflective […] Read more »

This shows the extensive damage caused by the firebombing of Freedom Bookshop but it also shows the solidarity response. On Saturday 3rd February , the day after the attack, more than 60 comrades went to the shop to help with the clean-up. Bookshop manager and member of the Freedom collective, Andy Meinke said ‘there were […] Read more »