Editorial

Looking out across the grey expanse of middle ground politics Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football finds some books to provide dreams of a better tomorrow. As the almost instantly forgettable party conference season disappears over the horizon the Westminster bubble political landscape would be hard pushed to inspire anybody much at all. For hope of […] Read more »

Salman Shaheen brings the debate about Left Unity to the Huffington Post. Please contribute to the debate on the original post at that site. The storm has blown away the last of the summer. Winter is on its way. And for Britain’s poorest families, forced by a soaring cost of living and the government’s austerity […] Read more »

  I am a scientist by profession. As a scientist and a socialist I am continually exasperated by those who, whilst applying a strictly evidence based approach to certain aspects of their lives, are happy to abandon empiricism when it comes to politics says Colin Piper.   I think the history of science is full […] Read more »

Supporters of ‘austerity’ would have a very strong argument if there really were no money left, says economist Michael Burke. In that case, opponents of current policy would be left arguing only for a fairer implementation of those policies, or that perhaps they could be implemented more slowly. This is not the case. Firms in […] Read more »

Andrea Martini reports from Rome: Tens of thousands of workers, young people, migrants and activists from the environmental movements peacefully filled up Rome’s streets in two extraordinary days of mobilisation on the 18th and 19th of October. Autumn 2013 has been yet another autumn of crisis, of factory closures, of cuts and privatisation, of widespread […] Read more »

Dave Landau from Islington Left Unity gave this talk to Barnet Left Unity earlier in October In the first decade of this millenium we had the spectre of the BNP becoming a significant electoral force.  From a position where the fascists had had hardly any electoral successes they suddenly started to get councillors all over […] Read more »

Andrew McCormack reports from the housing discussions at Left Unity’s recent policy workshops conference: I’ll readily admit to attending the recent Left Unity policy commission conference in Manchester with a heavy dose of cynicism. Past experience of leftist gatherings suggested the likelihood of a snooze-fest complete with pre-determined conclusions and interminable, one-way ‘contributions’ from representatives […] Read more »

Theres a massive focus on tiny sections of expenditure by this govt, says Jules Clarke And then this happens…… A fella on JSA goes to Jobcentre Is put on a course. The course says “Research a subject, and do a presentation to the people on the course” Now this sounds all fair. However the presentation […] Read more »

Green Left activist Sean Thompson says ecosocialists should leave the rightward-moving Green Party, and join the effort to build a new political party of the left in Britain.Sean Thompson is a founding member of Green Left, which describes itself as a an ecosocialist, anti-capitalist current within the Green Party of England and Wales. Comrades, An […] Read more »

Katherine Brannan photo of Eichmann in Jerusalem Burnage man with severe learning difficulties has benefits cut by £400 a week – over the phone 5 Oct 2013 Ruth Holland, 54, from Burnage, has been told the weekly allowance she receives from Manchester council for her son Paul, 33, is being cut from more than £500 […] Read more »