Discussion & Debate

Bob Whitehead reports: Fifty years ago, the Tory Government passed the Industrial Relations Act, a full-frontal attack on the trade union movement. However, it was met with mass resistance and defiance, including a mass strike and a mass demonstration in London. Read more »

David Landau writes: Alarm bells started ringing as the Government and Labour Party opposition talked about ‘securing our borders’. Read more »

Allan Todd reports: Twitterstorm Barclays: As a very welcome change from ‘Storm Christoph’, last Friday – 22 January – XR activists and supporters launched a massive Twitterstorm against Barclays Read more »

Bob Williams-Findlay writes: It is widely acknowledged that we are living through difficult and uncertain times. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to over 80,000 deaths in the United Kingdom, with many more likely to face long-term implications of having the virus. Read more »

Felicity Dowling writes: Left Unity sends warmest season’s greetings to all our members and friends and to your families. Read more »

Left Unity’s National Secretary talks to Bianca Todd. Read more »

Allan Todd reviews John Bellamy Foster’s new book The Return of Nature Read more »

Francis Fish reviews Ecocide – kill the corporation before it kills us by David Whyte Read more »

Suzanne Gannon writes about leaving the Labour Party: It’s now been four days since Kier Starmer raised the bar in the right-wing’s campaign to purge the Labour Party Read more »

“Hegel remarks somewhere that…[History repeats itself]. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire (1852) Allan Todd writes: With the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party, Read more »