Discussion & Debate

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 Kathrine Brannan, from LU Cambridge and Henry Nowak a comrade from Germany, discuss their reasons for supporting the Socialist Platform:                                                                        […] Read more »

Is Left Unity heading towards a slow motion car crash at the founding conference? asks Mike Wayne. It could be if members fatalistically resign themselves to the idea that we must have a vote on the various platforms that have emerged. The platforms are probably the stupidest idea to have emerged from Left Unity and […] Read more »

“Platforms have a crucial role in the culture and history of our movement. Was it not an anarchist platform that tripped a Tory MP to an early grave underneath Stephenson’s Rocket, a clear warning to that the Industrial Revolution would be built not only on the blood of the workers but of the Establishment too? […] Read more »

Kathrine Brannan shares an article by Einstein   This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An  exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation  for his future career.   I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate […] Read more »

  Martin Thomas   The SWP-splinter International Socialist Network, of which Thompson is a member, has broadly backed the LPP, but recommended amendments to both LPP and SP.   In the SP, it proposes to replace “aims… to <i>end</i> capitalism” with “aims… to <i>challenge</i> capitalism”. We all come across challenging behaviour every week, from workmates, […] Read more »

  Stuart King from Lambeth Left Unity gives his impressions of a recent South London discussion of platforms being put to the November conference. The joint meeting between Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham LU members to discuss platforms being put forward at the November conference was very useful in clarifying the views and positions of the […] Read more »

Dan Jeffery, Assistant Branch Secretary Lambeth UNISON (personal capacity), and trade unionist of 15 years discusses building grassroots resistance in the unions. A recent article called “We are trade unionist…” was put on the Left Unity website by a supporter of the Left Party Platform, Felicity Dowling. I thought it was a good article and […] Read more »

A personal view from Tony Walker, a supporter of Left Unity. I am an artist / student aged 58 I come from a skilled working class background but also university myself. (In fact my uncle would have been about the same age and occupational profile as Ron Todd, my father was a pattern maker and […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling – a trade union activist of many years’ standing – outlines a proposed policy for the Left Party Platform  on trade unions. 1. We are socialist, feminist, environmentalist, trade unionist, internationalist and against oppression of targeted groups. 2. Left Unity is inseparable from trade unionism. For many, conditions both of work and at […] Read more »