Editorial

Ken Loach is a socialist and a filmmaker who has never hidden his politics and always sought to grapple in his work with very real problems faced by working people and their everyday life experiences. In this respect he is unique. Here Oliver Huitson interviews Ken about his latest film and how he sees politics […] Read more »

Tobias Abse reveals the reactionary nature of Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement and the tragic fragmentation of the Italian Left The Italian general election of 24-25 February 2013 has been a political earthquake or, to adopt Beppe Grillo’s own vocabulary, a political tsunami. We can all agree that it represented a massive popular rejection of […] Read more »

Twenty seven comrades came to the third Left Unity meeting, for the majority this was their first meeting. The meeting was introduced by Gioia Coppola, an communist from Italy who gave a report on the recent Italian elections. She was despondent about the prospects for the left and saw little positive in the vote for […] Read more »

A falling pound will lower the living standards of workers and the poor, says economist Michael Burke. The British pound has begun to fall once more on the international currency markets. It may be further helped on its way by the loss of the AAA credit rating. This will have important domestic economic consequences. The currency is […] Read more »

Harry Paterson responds to Owen Jones’ defence of the Labour Party with a critique of what it has become – originally posted on his blog. Please note that the author’s views do not necessarily reflect those of Left Unity or the people involved in the project. No one, at least no one with even a […] Read more »

One of the leaders of France’s Front de Gauche, Jean-Luc Mélenchon recently visited London and gave a major speech at UCL  in which he discussed the ‘historic failure’ of social democracy and its inability to shape a European Union based on solidarity and social justice. His speech is available below, with English subtitles. Read more »

The way the left organises is a nonsense, argues Nick Wrack. This is an edited version of his speech at the February 9 ‘Socialist Organisation and Democracy’ event in Manchester The nature of this onslaught against ordinary working class people, in this country and beyond, is forcing families, individuals, groups of friends – whether it […] Read more »

Another look at the revolutionary left from Tom Walker  If there’s one thing that gets me about the revolutionary left, it’s this: in year five of this protracted capitalist crisis, as austerity strikes blow after blow, our methods, strategies and tactics clearly aren’t working – yet attempting to question and rethink them is often met […] Read more »

Nick Wrack of the Independent Socialist Network at a meeting on Socialist Organisation held in Manchester at the start of February Read more »

The government’s flagship scheme for promoting investment in infrastructure has been branded a failure, says economist Michael Burke. A report in The Times[i]quotes speakers for both the Engineering Employers Federation and the Confederation of British Industry as saying that the scheme is ‘disappointing’ and ‘more needs to be done’. In July 2012 the government announced […] Read more »