National

Well over 1000 people marched in Newcastle yesterday in a united show of opposition to devastating cuts inflicted on public services. The city’s Labour council is implementing coalition cuts in draconian fashion, with libraries, youth services, play services and the arts all set to be devastated. 1300 council jobs are set to go. This is […] Read more »

On Saturday May 11th 2013, the Alliance for Radical Booksellers (ARB) will be hosting a bookfair, to take place in London’s Conway Hall. The idea behind the fair is to create an event which showcases the depth and breadth of radical publishing and bookselling in the UK. The ARB is composed of booksellers with a […] Read more »

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An important meeting against austerity took place in Rouen this week. Hugo Daillan-Drissi from the Front De Gauche reports for Left Unity on the discussion at the meeting and future plans for an international campaign against austerity. This Wednesday in Rouen more than 500 people packed into the town hall to protest against the austerity […] Read more »

Salman Shaheen speaks out on his hopes for left unity Sixteen years of age, a naive young activist who’d read a bit of Marx and wanted to make the world a better place, I was walking along Lowestoft high street when I encountered a stall of scruffy-looking men campaigning against the impending Afghanistan war who […] Read more »

Dan Morgan, a former soldier, has called an anti-austerity protest in Trafalgar Square on May 4th. He set up a facebook group by himself and more than two thousand have responded to his call. Not being part of the traditional left here he explains his journey from soldier to activist.   My journey from Soldier […] Read more »

  Tonight 600 people crammed into the Archway Methodist Church. The meeting, chaired by Jeremy Corbyn MP,  heard speakers from Keep Our NHS Public, Defend the Whittington Hospital Campaign and other local MPs outline the next steps in the struggle to defend the services provided at the Whittington Hospital. The Board of the  Hospital has […] Read more »

In the corridors of power, the idea of free education has in 10 years somehow become an almost unutterably radical demand, says student leader Michael Chessum Almost exactly three years ago, on 6 February 2010, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts was founded at a conference in University College London, in opposition to the then-New Labour […] Read more »

The Coalition of Resistance National Council met today at the Unite headquarters. About 40 delegates from local anti-cuts groups and campaigns came together to hear reports from Keep Our NHS Public and from the COR officers group. The Save London’s NHS, week of action begins tomorrow. The campaign kicks off with a press conference at […] Read more »

Ellenor Hutson writes on her experience of being on the construction blacklist When I opened a recent letter from my Union, Unite, I was expecting to find a circular or, if I was really lucky, a complementary diary. Instead, I found a letter informing me I was on the Construction Blacklist. The Construction Blacklist, as […] Read more »