National

Some people have asked about the difference between the People’s Assembly being held in June and the Left Unity project. Andrew Burgin explains that the initiatives are complimentary. Britain stands on the verge of a triple dip recession. The government is relentlessly pursuing its austerity policies. This year the unemployed, the disabled, the low paid […] Read more »

  The Greens are telling those calling for a discussion of a new left party that they should just join them instead. Tom Walker looks at the Green Party’s record “There is no need to reinvent the wheel,” commented Green Party deputy leader Will Duckworth on Ken Loach’s appeal to discuss a new party of […] Read more »

Philip Kane comments on the crisis on the UK left and a debate going on in the Trade Unionist & Socialist Coalition and more specifically the Independent Socialist Network – originally posted on his blog The New Life [I should point out that this article is written and published in an individual capacity, and is […] Read more »

Matt Cox argues the case for including the anarchist and libertarian movement in the Left Unity framework. Let me start by saying that I was shocked when I found out about your organisation that I hadn’t heard about it sooner! A united front and a real alternative is exactly what we have needed and finally […] Read more »

Film director Ken Loach has called for the creation of a new party of the left in Britain. Kate Hudson explains why she is supporting the call. Austerity is wreaking economic catastrophe on the people of Cyprus, but George Osborne is still following the same disastrous policies. This week’s budget comes as no surprise – […] Read more »

  Harry Leslie Smith was born in 1923, in Barnsley Yorkshire. He is a Second World War veteran who served with the RAF. In the comment below that he left on the Ken Loach appeal post he explains what life in Britain was like before the welfare state was introduced and expresses his fears that […] Read more »

As England prepares for a World Cup Qualifier double-header Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman reviews the decline and fall of a Football Nation Never mind the debate over the dodgy third goal in ‘66, was it or wasn’t it over the line. The most famous piece of commentary in English footballing history ‘some people are on […] Read more »

On 3rd March 2013, Class Wargames hosted a games playing session in the basement of the Firebox cafe in London, says academic and pro-Situ Richard Barbrook. Over the course of this spring afternoon, the political struggles of the 1789 French Revolution were played out on the board of Martin Wallace’s Liberté. In this game’s opening […] Read more »

This is part two of Sophie Katz’s article on political representation. Part one was published last week and is on the debate pages of this site. Setting up literary utopias has been a dangerous business since Marx and Engels wrote ‘Socialism – Utopian or Scientific’ and it became catastrophic after Proudhon’s magnum opus on the […] Read more »

Dan Morgan, a former soldier, has called an anti-austerity protest in Trafalgar Square – and now other towns and cities – on May 4th. He set up a facebook group by himself and thousands have responded to his call. Here he outlines the progress made so far with the 99% against Austerity mobilisations. Well that’s […] Read more »