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Salman Shaheen speaks out on his hopes for left unity Sixteen years of age, a naive young activist who’d read a bit of Marx and wanted to make the world a better place, I was walking along Lowestoft high street when I encountered a stall of scruffy-looking men campaigning against the impending Afghanistan war who […] Read more »

Sophie Katz writes on the latest Left Unity meeting Time to Party On the 4th of Feb a ‘November 14 Left Unity’ group held a meeting about a new party. Good turn out. Not too old. Some interesting points made. Everybody tried very hard not to be sectarian. Lots of self-criticism about ‘my old organisation.’ […] Read more »

By Don Milligan Introduction Revolutionary Socialism is an emancipatory project, and in order to succeed, it must find positive means of realization and expression, as a precondition to its assumption of state power. For revolutions to succeed be they violent or peaceful, swift or protracted, they must be expressions of social forms that are already […] Read more »

Award-winning children’s author and campaigner, Alan Gibbons, discusses the way forward for the Left The world is in crisis. The global economy continues to struggle. The World Bank’s report on Global Economic Prospects manages to argue simultaneously that financial market conditions have improved dramatically since June 2012, but that “the real-side recovery is weak and […] Read more »

Last night 25 comrades – some representing left organisations and some individuals met at Conway Hall in central London to continue the discussion around the recomposition of the left. We will be carrying a series of short reports about the meeting from those attending. First from Tom Walker who was until recently a full-time journalist […] Read more »

By  Simon Hardy There is a crisis at the heart of the left in Britain. It is most acute in the SWP, where the bureaucratism and lack of democracy have exploded into an incredibly damaging public explosion around the handling of a rape allegation against a senior party leader. But this is also partly reflective […] Read more »

Tom Walker looks at the recent debate on Lenin “Socialist democracy is not something which begins only in the promised land after the foundations of socialist economy are created. It does not come as some sort of Christmas present for the worthy people who, in the interim, have loyally supported a handful of socialist dictators.” […] Read more »

Kate Hudson looks at custom and practice on the left Looks like we have to return to the age-old debate about women and socialism. I thought the arguments about women’s liberation and women’s equality had been won on the left, back in the 1970s. Clearly I was wrong. Whether it’s the silence of comrades in […] Read more »

Now more than ever we need a real alternative, says Jim Jepps. As the NHS is taken apart, as the Coalition comes for disability benefits, as climate change rolls on unabated, as Cameron announces we’re to have decades of war in north Africa – the future can seem bleak. It looks bleaker still if we […] Read more »