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‘During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which […] Read more »

Don Milligan looks at founding conference LEFT UNITY, the new political party of socialists to the left of Labour. was formed on Saturday at the Royal National Hotel in Woburn Place, Bloomsbury. A fine big room was booked and just under five hundred of us filed in to sit row upon row on ballroom chairs […] Read more »

  Impressions of founding conference by Stuart Watkins of the Leamington Spa branch When I first heard about Left Unity, I signed up immediately, but was sceptical and nervous. Whose stitch-up was this? Behind the façade of starting a national conversation about the kind of party we need, who was preparing the answers for us, […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling from Liverpool Left Unity gives some initial thoughts about the party’s founding conference It took till the small hours to drive home from Conference and I am still tired so apologies if this is short and sweet. Even while we met in Conference further horrors from the Tories came to light. By profession […] Read more »

A report from the founding conference of our new party, Left Unity, by Micheline Mason Just look at the energy in this photograph of our Founding Conference. I came away feeling something momentous had happened and very pleased to have been part of it. Maybe the world won’t realise just how important a move we […] Read more »

 John Penney from Crewe Left Unity examines building a radical counter narrativeAcross the mass media a ”big lie” message is currently being pumped out, ie,  that the Tory/Lib Dem economic strategy is working and the recent upturn in the UK GDP figures shows the UK is “on the road to recovery”.  As evidence of this […] Read more »

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Salman Shaheen brings the debate about Left Unity to the Huffington Post. Please contribute to the debate on the original post at that site. The storm has blown away the last of the summer. Winter is on its way. And for Britain’s poorest families, forced by a soaring cost of living and the government’s austerity […] Read more »

Supporters of ‘austerity’ would have a very strong argument if there really were no money left, says economist Michael Burke. In that case, opponents of current policy would be left arguing only for a fairer implementation of those policies, or that perhaps they could be implemented more slowly. This is not the case. Firms in […] Read more »

Merry Cross reports on a powerful meeting she attended: Yesterday I managed to track down and attend a really interesting meeting in Reading organised by the World Development Movement . It was about the terrible effects of the activities of the Cerrejon coal mining giant in Colombia but as importantly, about the British banks financing […] Read more »