Discussion & Debate

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 »

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 »