Discussion & Debate

Pete green from Hackney Left Unity comments on the consensus of Left Unity’s aims at a local level and the platform debate. Some of you who have looked through the package of documents for the founding conference, available on the website, may have noticed a document from “Tower Hamlets/Hackney”  set amidst the various platform proposals […] Read more »

Steve Wallis of Manchester Central Left Unity proposed changes to the Left Party Platform submission for the aims section at the founding conference, which, after discussion, were submitted as two separate amendments to those aims for debate at the conference. The justification for those amendments are Steve’s personal views. One of the problems of the […] Read more »

There have been contributions to the conference debate, and there is a motion on the agenda, suggesting that no vote should be taken on the aims motions, particularly those put forward by platforms. The suggestion is that to do so at this stage is undemocratic and unnecessarily divisive. In reality, I think the opposite is […] Read more »

   Kathrine Brannan and Henry Nowak, supporters of the Socialist Platform, present a case against attempting to hide a Marxist revolutionary identity within a ‘broad radical movement.’                                   Let’s refuse the Trojan Horse trickery of a ‘revolutionary Left deeply […] Read more »

“British politics urgently needs a new force – a movement on the Left to counter capitalism’s crisis. If a new, networked movement of the Left could agree on some key principles, and avoid creating another battleground for ultra-left sects, it could give a voice to million … a movement uniting all those desperate for a […] Read more »

    In the run-up to the Founding Conference there is a dynamic debate going on, not just about the ‘aims’ of the Party, or the key issues we want to focus upon, but about the very nature of the party we are proposing to be.   I have signed up to the Left Party […] Read more »

 The situation we face The effects of the Great 2008 Recession still blight Britain. One in ten workers and one in five young people are out of work. Real wages have been in decline since 2007. Public sector wages have been frozen for two years. Cameron and Clegg’s cabinet of 23 millionaires continues with its […] Read more »

In the light of positive feedback about our original platform documents some supporters have suggested that the platform ‘aims’ statement could be strengthened, before being put to conference, by including some elements from the background document, as well as on trade union work. This has been done and circulated to and approved by Left Party […] Read more »

  1.  The global financial and economic crisis since 2008 has been transformed by governments imposing austerity policies into a massive redistribution of income and wealth from working people to the rich and powerful. 2. This has led to a ‘crisis of democracy’ as people have protested against the lack of democracy in their governments. […] Read more »

  The [Left Unity] Party is a socialist party.  It seeks to bring about the end of capitalism and its replacement by the rule of the working class. Read more »