Articles and Editorial

Tom Walker looks at the recent debate on Lenin “Socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land after the foundations of socialist economy are created. It does not come as some sort of Christmas present for the worthy people who, in the interim, have loyally supported a handful of socialist dictators.” […] Read more »

Kate Hudson looks at custom and practice on the left Looks like we have to return to the age-old debate about women and socialism. I thought the arguments about women’s liberation and women’s equality had been won on the left, back in the 1970s. Clearly I was wrong. Whether it’s the silence of comrades in […] Read more »

Hello, I’m from the Freedom Collective – thanks for your article about the shop being firebombed. We now have way for people to make donations to help rebuild the shop: We are setting up a donations page. In the meanwhile, anyone who wants to donate can do so by ordering a book/s through the www.freedompress.org.uk […] Read more »

Left Unity sends its solidarity greetings to Freedom Press and all who work there. In the early hours of this morning the Freedom Press bookshop in Whitechapel was firebombed. At about 5.30am a window was smashed and petrol poured into the shop and set alight. Freedom Press was founded in 1886, it is the largest […] Read more »

Portugal’s middle-class dwindles under debt Poverty in Portugal has risen to levels that were unimaginable a year ago, despite the bleak outlook forecast by the harsh measures imposed by the troika of creditors in exchange for the country’s financial bailout. Unable to pay their bills or even meet basic food needs, thousands of families are […] Read more »

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Sixty years ago today, floods and gales shattered the east coast and its communities. Every East Anglian of a certain age still remembers the 1953 floods, when sea walls were breached in over 1,000 places, and more than 300 people died. Three events combined: full moon, a deep trough of low-pressure that sucked up the sea […] Read more »

  Our Democracy against their austerity! – a call for action against the EU Spring Summit ‘For a European Spring’ is a call for actions, strikes and demonstrations all over Europe on the 13th of March, and for a pan-European demonstration and creative actions in the city of Brussels on the 14th of March. It […] Read more »

Labour councillors marched alongside anti-cuts campaigners in Derby last night to show their opposition to the axing of vital services. Derby City Council’s 28 Labour members took to the streets before a budget meeting, joining a protest organised by the local trades union council and the People’s Charter campaign group. A Derby Labour Party spokesman […] Read more »

GMB members employed by Brighton & Hove City Council are facing massive cuts to their take-home pay following Green Party & Conservative plans to alter their terms and conditions. At a meeting of Brighton’s Policy and Resources Committee on 24th January 2013, Green and Conservative Councillors forced through a measure* which authorised Council officers  to […] Read more »