Editorial

Daniel Harvey reviews: Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey, Michael Rustin (eds) ‘After neoliberalism? The Kilburn manifesto’, Soundings, 2013 After reading After neoliberalism? The Kilburn manifesto, which is currently being released in chapter instalments on the internet, I felt as though I had just had afternoon tea with my local vicar. Prominent Eurocommunist Stuart Hall might well […] Read more »

An article by John Penney of Crewe Left Unity Almost unnoticed, until it actually happened almost by default at the Founding Conference ,when we voted not to adopt any of the much debated rival “Platforms Statements” as our Aims, we adopted the “Aims” statement component of the Constitution, as originally written by the Internal Democracy […] Read more »

Chris Stafford’s analysis of the Left Unity Founding Conference When the Conservative-led government took power in 2010 it was met by thousands of angry and active youth on the streets. There was a sense that the struggle against austerity was about to take off. Even when the movement subsided we were met with the prospect […] Read more »

A report from the founding conference of our new party, Left Unity, by Micheline Mason Just look at the energy in this photograph of our Founding Conference. I came away feeling something momentous had happened and very pleased to have been part of it. Maybe the world won’t realise just how important a move we […] Read more »

Greek university education is going through the most critical phase in its entire history, because the Ministry of Education is implementing a harsh mobility scheme for the administrative and technical staff of the country’s eight largest universities, reports Sissy Velissariou. This scheme calls for mandatory transfers that in fact disguise the truth – that the […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway Andrew Murray, a leading advisor to Len McCluskey (Unite general secretary) and a Morning Star supporter, has published a twenty page article in this year’s Socialist Register criticising the choice we have made in developing the Left Unity  project, as a political alternative to the Labour Party (LP). Murray spoke at the recent […] Read more »

  As Left Unity nears our formal Lift-Off, John Tummon says we need to take full account of the nature of political literacy in 21st century Britain.   As a regular viewer of the BBC-1 Quiz ‘Pointless’, which assesses contestants by how obscure their knowledge is in comparison to 100 people given the same questions […] Read more »

The latest developments in German politics should serve as a reality check for the ‘broad party’ advocates in this country, argues Ben Lewis For all the talk of the recent German elections being the most boring in memory, having been met with huge levels of apathy and indifference on the part of the population, the […] Read more »

Left Unity vs James Max on the latest Tory MP multi-millionaire. 8 November 2013 youtube link: Read more »

  The Making of Global Capitalism – The Political Economy of American Empire By Leo Panitch and Sam Ginden (Verso Books 2012) Reviewed by Dave Kellaway ‘In today’s world the multinationals operate outside nation states, there is a new global capitalist order in which no nation state is dominant’ ‘ Europe was constructed against US […] Read more »