Discussion & Debate

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 »

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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 »