Discussion & Debate

Olly New, a former RMT executive member and member of Left Unity in West London, pays tribute to Bob Crow Bob’s dead. I just can’t believe it. It’s not just that he’s been a friend and comrade for 30 years, or that he was only 52, or even that he’s left such a huge hole […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling looks at the crisis in Ukraine The lessons of 1914 must be re-learned in 2014. One hundred years ago socialism and internationalism were real forces in the lives and minds of working people. There were mass movements, organised and inspired by socialism. Despite this, the forces of nationalism were able to overcome resistance […] Read more »

By Phil Hearse At the end of the Left Unity founding conference last November, Richard Brenner of the Class Struggle platform (aka Workers Power) jumped up with a ‘point of order’ which turned out to be – to no one’s great surprise – not a point of order. We were, said Brenner, about to vote […] Read more »

The left in England needs a revolution in its politics, ideology and methods if it is to become fit for purpose, argues Steve Freeman. At present it is not ready to break with the politics of the post war left. Labourism, British Trotskyism and the British road to socialism maintain their grip over the political […] Read more »

Philip Clayton and Kieran Crowe put forward their ideas Since the rise of Thatcher, Reagan and the deification of Friedman and Hayek, in the late 70’s and 80’s, globalisation and neoliberalism has succeeded in smashing almost all the protection that workers had painfully gained through the struggles of the previous 100 years. This cuts across […] Read more »

1. The Republican Socialist Platform was set up to promote the need for a republican socialist party. This must be built on the basis of the unity of the social democratic and communist left in England, working in cooperation with republican socialists in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 2. The last point of the platform says […] Read more »

Jack Conrad on the Communist Platform after Left Unity’s founding conference Read more »

This is the amended constitution as agreed by the founding conference on November 30 Constitution as of 7-12-13 Read more »

  The Left Party Platform was founded in July following a decision by Left Unity’s National Coordinating Group to allow platforms of ten or more members to openly argue for shared political positions. The Left Party Platform produced an initial statement and background document which it publicised widely, seeking to promote its vision of a […] Read more »

Syriza has been held up as a party that should be emulated. Daniel Harvey examines the reality Read more »