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  A report from Keston Sutherland on the Left Unity meeting in Brighton last night Brighton Left Unity held its first meeting on the evening of the 18th April in central Brighton. Around sixty people showed up, a lively and exciting mix of experienced activists, students from the Sussex occupation, other students, trades union members […] Read more »

Inspired by his first Left Unity meeting, Mark Perryman wonders what it means to be a party I’ve been around the Left  block enough times, the old Communist Party in the Thatcher years, in and out of Respect, I  now vote Green in most elections. But mostly for the past twenty years I’ve felt that […] Read more »

Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football reviews the best reading of the quarter As the Thatcher funeral hoopla fades away and the focus shifts to the likely rout of the Con-Dems in the 2 May local elections the political landscape outside the Westminster bubble in the next few months is likely to be further shaped by the […] Read more »

More than 8,000 people have signed the Left Unity appeal to discuss a new party of the Left. They come from all walks of life. What unites them is a desire for change. There are some 90 groups now organised across the country. Here are four more accounts of why. Michael Green: I have been […] Read more »

Thursday May 2nd 2013 will see local elections for councils in parts of England. Harry Blackwell of Socialist Resistance sets out his own views on the significance of these elections for the left, reviews recent council by-election results for left candidates and looks forward to the elections of 2014, the last big ones before the […] Read more »

This is a discussion document from Huddersfield Left Unity and is part of the preparations for the May 11th national meeting of Left Unity groups.    The basic values and insights of socialism are still relevant today Human beings are not naturally selfish, aggressive or ignorant – we are social beings who work best when […] Read more »

Left Unity was first initiated by Kate Hudson and Andrew Burgin in November last year following the European Day of Action against austerity on 14th November, which saw the first ever coordinated strike action across the continent. They issued an initial unity appeal, which is on the website, and people gradually began to get in […] Read more »

In the second of a two part essay, Ed Rooksby sketches some broad strategic principles for a radical left party.  In the first part of this essay I argued that the current crisis must be seen as a systemic crisis of capitalism which is rooted in an underlying structural problem of low profitability. I also […] Read more »

 Micheline Mason has decided to resign from the Labour party in order to help us build Left Unity. Here is her resignation letter to Ed Miliband April 12th 2013 Dear Ed Miliband I am sorry to say that I have decided to resign from the Labour Party in order to help organise ‘Left Unity,’ a […] Read more »

Nick Long who works with the successful Lewisham People Before Profit party and who is now linked with Left Unity outlines his proposals for the new party. All the recent left initiatives at building a new party of the left have failed or only been a limited success. This latest initiative may perhaps be the […] Read more »