Editorial

A member of Left Unity in Huddersfield gives us her thoughts. Hello, my name’s Char. I’m so pleased to be part of Left Unity. I have been dismayed by British politics since Blair’s time, the only party I can put a cross next to is the Green’s and as a born and bred socialist this […] Read more »

A voluntary sector worker explains the shift to corporate style working in the third sector and how employees and staff loose out. I’m focused on trying to build the labour movement in the voluntary sector. That is where i work, so that’s where i need to get involved with a union. Like most of voluntary […] Read more »

Richard Seymour’s speech at the Subversive festival in Zagreb I think the title of this talk, The Rise of a New Left, is clearly to some extent projection of a desired outcome; of course, there are elements of a New Left visible.  Not just the indignados and occupiers, but also the radical left challengers: Syriza, […] Read more »

If I hear the term ‘hardworking families’ once more I think I am going to scream, says Micheline Mason. They apparently are the only people worthy of our respect and support.  All the rest of us scrounging idle unmarried pretenders who contribute nothing and absorb huge proportions of the national income getting old and fat […] Read more »

Merry Cross of DPAC – In an earlier piece for Left Unity I told how the attacks on disabled people’s welfare rights should have served as an early warning to the Left of what was to follow. Whilst our fighting spirit rises, it is also true to say that many disabled people are now stressed […] Read more »

The national meeting of supporters of the Left Unity project on Saturday 11 May 2013 was a significant step towards the formation of a new party, says Nick Wrack. Exactly what sort of party it will be still has to be decided. Will it be an explicit socialist party, as Ken Loach clearly wants it […] Read more »

Haringey Left Unity supporter Joe Lo looks at what we can learn from the King Blues. Last year I went to a gig in Sheffield with two artists performing who I think represent the two paths Left Unity can go down. Headlining was Billy Bragg who’s been barking earnestly away for 30 years whilst society’s […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling was recently elected to Left Unity’s National Co-ordinating Group. Here she sets out her assessment of the political context in which we are working. In May 2013 we can see real and concrete gains for the very rich. Austerity is working for them. It is transferring wealth from the workers and their communities […] Read more »

Bob Williams-Findlay is a disabled activist with experience inside the public and third sectors. He argues that there is more to the Big Society than meets the eye. “The writer’s mission is not to report but to struggle; not to  play the spectator but to intervene actively” Walter Benjamin Introduction Over the past eighteen months […] Read more »

The Labour Party sensationally lost a council by-election to the UK Independence Party in one of its heartlands of Rotherham this week.  Harry Blackwell examines the background and its consequences. Labour lost 24% of their vote in the previously ‘safe’ Rawmarsh ward of Rotherham Borough Council in South Yorkshire.  Labour came 104 votes behind the […] Read more »