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Don’t attack Syria

CND general secretary Kate Hudson shares her recent blog post on why we should oppose attacks on Syria. We oppose any military attack on Syria. Such actions will only exacerbate this bloody civil war and risk drawing neighbouring states into the conflict. The alleged use of chemical weapons within Syria is to be condemned in […] Read more »


No Dash for Gas! Protestors converge on Balcombe

Ed Bauer, a supporter of Birmingham based Communities Against The Cuts reports from the Reclaim the Power camp in Balcombe, Sussex The Sussex town of Balcombe has played host to Reclaim the Power, a protest camp targeting the site of a fracking bid by the controversial firm Cuadrilla. Many of the headlines on the day […] Read more »


Labour councillors! Stand up for your class! No cuts!

What role can our elected representatives have in the defence of our living and working conditions? Walsall Democratic Labour Party councillor Pete Smith recently sent the following letter to the Walsall Advertiser: Last year I was the only Councillor (out of 60) who actually voted AGAINST the multi-million pound Walsall Council budget cuts for 2012/13 […] Read more »


Max – a new revolutionary icon?

Dave Kellaway, from Hackney Left Unity, reviews Elysium (102 mins) Directed by Neill Blomkamp, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. All science fiction films are like the future perfect tense, they have to have a connection between our present lives and sometime in the future. If they don’t they become too dense and incomprehensible. However […] Read more »


Back from the Dead – Section 28

Chris Strafford and Rachel Brooks from the Anticapitalist Initiative discuss the need to defend and extend struggle for LGBT equality in our schools. The revelation that at least 40 schools in Britain have introduced homophobic Section 28-like rules banning the “promotion of homosexuality” has to be met with a calls for them to be overturned. […] Read more »


Ed’s Egg

Not even the opposition can face the public unscathed, says Will Skyrme. Not even those ordained by Her Majesty to oppose the current ruling clique can wonder freely in the righteous world of the un-egged. Quite apart from the deliciously appropriate nature of the tactic itself – sitting perfectly as it does on the right […] Read more »


Working tax credits subsidise big corporations

Working tax credits subsidise big corporations to exploit poor people. Let’s have a mandatory living wage, says Salman Shaheen. Ed Miliband’s summer of silence has been criticised from the left as the perception grows that Labour has failed to provide a coherent and effective alternative to austerity. The standard riposte to those who claim there […] Read more »


In defence of the Left Unity initiative – Len Arthur

  There is an important debate on Left Unity taking place within the left of the Labour Party. This is a response by Len Arthur to Peter Rowland’s post on the Left Unity initiative on the Left Futures website. Peter Rowland’s article which is now a post on the Left Futures blog raises key issues […] Read more »


Red hot summer reading

Mark Perryman provides a beach reading round up for those who take their politics on holiday with them. The silly season? For the Westminster bubble it would be hard to identify a month in the year when ‘silly’ isn’t too soft an epithet to describe what most MPs get up to, supposedly on our behalf. […] Read more »


Letter in The Guardian: “Left Unity ready to offer an alternative”

“This summer will be remembered for Labour‘s final betrayal of the working-class people it was founded to represent. Not content with signing up to Conservative austerity measures that are dragging Britain’s most vulnerable people deeper into poverty, Ed Miliband has turned his back on the union members who supported his leadership bid. Austerity has not […] Read more »



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Peace, planet, people: our common struggle

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