Mike Wayne is a founding member of Left Unity and a member of the Southwark group. This is his contribution to thinking about the principles that might guide Left Unity policy making and practice. The document comes in two parts. An opening explanatory preamble and then a list of 21 principles which identify some of […] Read more »
Andy Smith from Leeds Left Unity gives a report of their latest public meeting Kate Hudson spoke at the second Leeds Left Unity public meeting last Wednesaday. Again there were many new faces with around 28 people in attendance. The discussion section was started off with an appeal from the Leeds Pathology labs strike, where […] Read more »
Sharon McCourt from Left Unity’s National Co-ordinating Group reports on the recent meeting between Left Unity and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, with additional thoughts from Bianca Todd. As agreed by Left Unity’s National Coordinating Group (NCG) in June, four of us went along from Left Unity to meet with delegates from TUSC. Left […] Read more »
A letter from Edward Snowden’s father and his lawyer, Bruce Fein, to President Obama: Bruce Fein & Associates, Inc. 722 12th Street, N.W., 4th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone: 703-963-4968 July 26, 2013 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution […] Read more »
Micheline Mason is one of the Left Unity organiserd for Wandsworth. Here is her petition against the privatisation of education. Dear All, It was good to see you at the National Coordinating group meeting on Saturday. Hard work, but building the foundations of new houses is always worth the effort. Here is the link to […] Read more »
As the housing crisis deepens, squatting is likely to increase, out of necessity more than as a political act. Since September last year, squatting a residential property in England and Wales is a criminal offence, potentially carrying a prison sentence. The new legislation was supported by the Labour Party. Alex Reich from Haringey Left Unity talks […] Read more »
On 24 July representatives of Left Unity met with representatives of TUSC (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition). Will McMahon, a supporter of both, gives a flavour of the discussion and his personal impressions of the meeting. My impression of the first TUSC/Left Unity meeting that took place on Wednesday 24 July was that it was […] Read more »
Dan is 32 and disabled. His experience with ATOS, the Council Tax, and the Bedroom Tax is told in this short video made by Liam Wesson and Paul Barnett, Left Unity supporters in Staffordshire: Read more »
Pedro Filipe Soares is a Left Bloc MP in the Portuguese parliament. Soares attend the first congress of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) from July 10-14. Syriza, a coalition of left groups, decided to become a new political party after it came close to winning elections on an anti-austerity platform last year. The […] Read more »
A crisis is an objective fact to which there can essentially be only two responses, says economist Michael Burke. The cause can be identified and addressed, or some other explanation can be advanced which effectively shifts the blame for the crisis elsewhere. The government and the supporters of austerity are increasingly bent on the second […] Read more »
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Saturday 21st June: End the Genocide – national march for Palestine
Join us to tell the government to end the genocide; stop arming Israel; and stop starving Gaza!
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Summer University, 11-13 July, in Paris
Peace, planet, people: our common struggle
The EL’s annual summer university is taking place in Paris.
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