Editorial

Iram Awan is the new Left Unity organiser for High Wycombe. She explains why she is getting involved. I have never been aligned to any political party and have felt disenchanted with them for as long as I can remember. I find them to be consistently unrepresentative of people’s views and in thrall to corporate […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway looks at the Five Star Movement Should we invite someone from the M5S (Five Star Movement) to speak about how they built their movement in Italy? This was  an interesting and relevant question raised towards the end of our recent Left Unity meeting. I suggested that we need to think more about this […] Read more »

  A report from Keston Sutherland on the Left Unity meeting in Brighton last night Brighton Left Unity held its first meeting on the evening of the 18th April in central Brighton. Around sixty people showed up, a lively and exciting mix of experienced activists, students from the Sussex occupation, other students, trades union members […] Read more »

Inspired by his first Left Unity meeting, Mark Perryman wonders what it means to be a party I’ve been around the Left  block enough times, the old Communist Party in the Thatcher years, in and out of Respect, I  now vote Green in most elections. But mostly for the past twenty years I’ve felt that […] Read more »

As we had expected, reports Chantal Delmas, the WSF in Tunis was a great moment of solidarity with the people of Tunisia, two years after the Tunisian uprising against Ben Ali. It was also a great time to strengthen the democratic camp in the Arab world. It brought a burst of energy and dynamism to […] Read more »

This is a discussion document from Huddersfield Left Unity and is part of the preparations for the May 11th national meeting of Left Unity groups.    The basic values and insights of socialism are still relevant today Human beings are not naturally selfish, aggressive or ignorant – we are social beings who work best when […] Read more »

In the second of a two part essay, Ed Rooksby sketches some broad strategic principles for a radical left party.  In the first part of this essay I argued that the current crisis must be seen as a systemic crisis of capitalism which is rooted in an underlying structural problem of low profitability. I also […] Read more »

Nick Long who works with the successful Lewisham People Before Profit party and who is now linked with Left Unity outlines his proposals for the new party. All the recent left initiatives at building a new party of the left have failed or only been a limited success. This latest initiative may perhaps be the […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway, a supporter of Left Unity and a member of the Fourth International examines the tepid and timid response from the far left to our new political project My dad used to say that if the other side are ignoring you then you are failing or not working hard enough. The activists supporting Left […] Read more »

Since Monday there has been a near universal media lockdown on dissenting views of Thatcher’s legacy. Mark Perryman explores how to break through the consensus, effectively yet sensitively. “Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there […] Read more »