Editorial
Worker’s Blood for Multinational Profits: a streamed Left Unity meeting (video)
A livestreamed Waltham Forest Left Unity meeting with speakers Nadia Idle (War on Want), Ashok Kumar (Asia Coordinator for Adidas Workers Unite! Union) and Kathy Lowe (Waltham Forest LU) With thanks to Occupy London and the Occupy News Network Read more »
Left Unity Policy Conference: workshop reports
Pete McLaren reports from Left Unity’s policy workshop conference, held in Manchester on 28 September, focusing on the internal democracy and constitution sessions. There were around 75 Left Unity members/supporters present at the Policy Conference. The day was divided into three sessions with workshops on most of the areas covered by Policy commissions including health, […] Read more »
Serge and Trotsky – Left Unity in the 1930s
Liam McNulty shares his analysis of the debates between Trotsky and Victor Serge and others about how to work towards a united left movement in the 1930s. The ongoing vicious attacks on our class and the crisis of the UK’s largest revolutionary organisation have shaken the comfortable conception of the left as a stable collection […] Read more »
Threat to disability benefits in Ontario posed by merger of OW and ODSP
Many people living on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) have strong and well founded concerns about the possibility of regressive ‘reforms’ to that system. While the Wynne Government has made no official announcements as yet, the warning signs are very clear that disabled people on social assistance are going to be facing an austerity […] Read more »
TUC Save our NHS: short film
Die Linke after the German general election
They say that, in politics too, every cloud has a silver lining, and fortunately it can be reported that in the case of the German general elections the silver lining has a distinctly reddish shade, writes Thomas Kachel from Die Linke, Germany’s Left Party. But firstly, a look at the deep black cloud hanging over […] Read more »
Making the case for a progressive common sense
Mark Perryman reviews Stuart Hall and Alan O’Shea’s unpicking of how opinions are made and unmade As the Party Conference season draws to a close the disconnect between the politics of the Westminster bubble and the rest of us couldn’t be more obvious. Persons in suits, mostly men, addressing other persons in suits, mostly men, […] Read more »
Some remarks on the German elections
Murray Smith comments on the recent German elections and what they mean for Die Linke. Once the immediate euphoria – for those that way inclined – had dissipated, it very quickly became apparent that the victory of Angela Merkel and the CDU in the German elections, obtained very largely at the expense of the CDU’s […] Read more »
The catastrophic reduction of tertiary education in Greece
Sissy Velissariou reports on the devastating attacks being inflicted on higher education in Greece. For at least the past four years the public and democratic university has been systematically undermined by the neoliberal governments through its institutional liquidation, that has destroyed the collective and democratically elected academic bodies, predominantly by its economic strangulation. At the […] Read more »
A party to dream of
When the left alternative goes unvoiced, the real choices unposed, democracy is drained of content, writes Mike Marqusee. That’s why we need a new party of the left. Read more »
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Saturday 21st June: End the Genocide – national march for Palestine
Join us to tell the government to end the genocide; stop arming Israel; and stop starving Gaza!
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Peace, planet, people: our common struggle
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