National

By Ian Bone Former Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, currently Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh in Hampshire, will be standing down after pleading guilty to perverting the cause of justice. Ian Bone looks at the possibilities for the right wing party UKIP in the forthcoming by-election. The Eastleigh by-election will give UKIP the long awaited opportunity to win a parliamentary […] Read more »

Health Policy Commission Continues its’ Work Duncan Parker is the convenor for the Health policy commission. This is a renewed call out for any Left Unity activists who wish to get involved in the Health Policy Commission. The aim of the policy commission is to continue to develop principles for the sort of wider healthcare […] Read more »

By  Simon Hardy There is a crisis at the heart of the left in Britain. It is most acute in the SWP, where the bureaucratism and lack of democracy have exploded into an incredibly damaging public explosion around the handling of a rape allegation against a senior party leader. But this is also partly reflective […] Read more »

This shows the extensive damage caused by the firebombing of Freedom Bookshop but it also shows the solidarity response. On Saturday 3rd February , the day after the attack, more than 60 comrades went to the shop to help with the clean-up. Bookshop manager and member of the Freedom collective, Andy Meinke said ‘there were […] Read more »

Kate Hudson looks at custom and practice on the left Looks like we have to return to the age-old debate about women and socialism. I thought the arguments about women’s liberation and women’s equality had been won on the left, back in the 1970s. Clearly I was wrong. Whether it’s the silence of comrades in […] Read more »

Hello, I’m from the Freedom Collective – thanks for your article about the shop being firebombed. We now have way for people to make donations to help rebuild the shop: We are setting up a donations page. In the meanwhile, anyone who wants to donate can do so by ordering a book/s through the www.freedompress.org.uk […] Read more »

Left Unity sends its solidarity greetings to Freedom Press and all who work there. In the early hours of this morning the Freedom Press bookshop in Whitechapel was firebombed. At about 5.30am a window was smashed and petrol poured into the shop and set alight. Freedom Press was founded in 1886, it is the largest […] Read more »

Sixty years ago today, floods and gales shattered the east coast and its communities. Every East Anglian of a certain age still remembers the 1953 floods, when sea walls were breached in over 1,000 places, and more than 300 people died. Three events combined: full moon, a deep trough of low-pressure that sucked up the sea […] Read more »

Labour councillors marched alongside anti-cuts campaigners in Derby last night to show their opposition to the axing of vital services. Derby City Council’s 28 Labour members took to the streets before a budget meeting, joining a protest organised by the local trades union council and the People’s Charter campaign group. A Derby Labour Party spokesman […] Read more »

GMB members employed by Brighton & Hove City Council are facing massive cuts to their take-home pay following Green Party & Conservative plans to alter their terms and conditions. At a meeting of Brighton’s Policy and Resources Committee on 24th January 2013, Green and Conservative Councillors forced through a measure* which authorised Council officers  to […] Read more »