National

Merry Cross from DPAC lays out ground rules to make meetings accessible for all. First your publicity needs to state explicitly that you welcome disabled people and will make every effort to meet any access needs.  If you don’t do this, disabled people will assume it is NOT the case (which is the norm) and […] Read more »

A contribution to the discussion on a new party by Kady Tait of Leeds Left Unity and Workers Power, The terrific response to Ken Loach’s Appeal proves this is an idea whose time has come. So how can we achieve the potential that 8000 signatories and more than 80 local groups present for the formation […] Read more »

John Keeley (Left Unity supporter & IOPS member) contributes to the debate. One of the biggest challenges we face is convincing people that we are different to the capitalist political parties. That we are not just another group of politicians seeking power to rule over the people. After 18 years of Tory government, Blair & […] Read more »

Left Unity supporter Mark Perryman argues the need for a new political culture This may seem a tad premature. Signatories to Ken Loach’s appeal are still pouring in, most local groups have only had their first meeting in the past few weeks with some still yet to meet, we don’t even know what to call […] Read more »

Left Unity – Leicester had the first gathering on Tuesday 23 April 2013 at the Phoenix Cinema cafe, where some of us had seen Spirit of 45. We were around 20 people, and there was some good energy in the room for finding a way forward for positive change. We pooled ideas about what we […] Read more »

  Pete Green reports on two Left Unity meetings in East London and Hackney The East London/Hackney group has now had two meetings as well as a Saturday afternoon trip to the Rio cinema for a showing of The Spirit of 45 to which quite a few people came. 23 people came to the first […] Read more »

Seventeen people attended the first meeting of the Bristol group last week, from a broad range of political backgrounds. There were also around a dozen apologies from those who couldn’t make that date. Some of those attending had previously been members of left groups or parties; others considered themselves to be independent socialists or anarchists; […] Read more »

Alan Story from Nottingham Left Unity contributes his thoughts for how the discussion could proceed As most LEFT UNITY supporters know, an initial national LU meeting will be held in central London on the afternoon of 11 May. Each local LU group has been asked to send a maximum of two representatives, of least one […] Read more »

Iram Awan is the new Left Unity organiser for High Wycombe. She explains why she is getting involved. I have never been aligned to any political party and have felt disenchanted with them for as long as I can remember. I find them to be consistently unrepresentative of people’s views and in thrall to corporate […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway looks at the Five Star Movement Should we invite someone from the M5S (Five Star Movement) to speak about how they built their movement in Italy? This was  an interesting and relevant question raised towards the end of our recent Left Unity meeting. I suggested that we need to think more about this […] Read more »