Editorial

In the first part of a two-part essay, Ed Rooksby, assesses the economic crisis today and sketches some broad strategic principles for a radical left party in Britain. It must be clear now to all those with some grip on reality that Osborne’s austerity strategy simply isn’t working. The most recent figures show that UK […] Read more »

David Wilson who is now the Left Unity organiser for Islington North reflects on the state of society that has led him to join up. Our political system is built on massive corruption, obscene wealth in the hands of the 1%, racism at home, wars abroad and the deliberate rape and wastage of the earth’s […] Read more »

The latest growth data confirm that Ireland went back into recession at the end of 2012. Despite all the talk about corners being turned, we find that economy is going backwards, says economist Michael Burke. GDP is lower than it was in 2009. GNP, which does not include the effects of movements in profits by […] Read more »

Peter Hill responds to Ed Rooksby’s recent article on this website. Rooksby outlines three possible models for left-wing organization in Britain, which are emerging, he argues, in ’embryonic form’. The first is the ‘networked movement of the Left’ called for by Owen Jones, ‘which would encompass activists from both within and outside the Labour Party’; the […] Read more »

The cause of left unity in the face of an all-out assault on the working class by this Conservative government has never been more necessary nor more urgent, says Salman Shaheen. But if Left Unity passes its first hurdle, bringing together the myriad squabbling clans who can sometimes seem to spend as much time attacking […] Read more »

I’m sick of feeling unrepresented, says Adam Roden. I’m sick of my only choice being Labour, a party that maybe once, long ago, would have been the right choice. I’m sick of the Right-wing parties of this country having all the drive, all the ideas, all the tub-thumping, crowd pleasing rhetoric (however much I might […] Read more »

Two initiatives are before the British left as we move, possibly, to summer. The People’s Assembly in June and Ken Loach’s call for a new left organization around Left Unity related to his excellent Spirit of ’45 film writes Keith Flett of the London Socialist Historians Group. This is an historical note so I don’t […] Read more »

For the first time in a long period the conditions for the emergence of a broad left coalition of forces in the UK capable of attracting large-scale support seem ripe, says Ed Rooksby. These conditions have been generated and shaped, in my view, by four major interconnected political and economic developments. These developments themselves comprise […] Read more »

Sean Thompson muses on Green Party members’ response to Ken Loach’s appeal for a new party of the left. Over the past couple of weeks, three things have served to lift the gloom of an apparently endless winter in Tory Britain. First has been the first stirrings of what may well become a real wave […] Read more »

Alan Thornett of Socialist Resistance explains why any new party of the left must have democracy and ecology at its core. This is partly in response to the article by Tom Walker ‘Just how left wing is the Green Party?’ Ken Loach’s call for a new party of the left around the launch of The […] Read more »