UNIFOR is a new union, created by the merger of the Canadian Autoworkers and the Canadian Energy and Paper Workers Union. Author and journalist Naomi Klein spoke at UNIFOR’s founding convention in Toronto on September 1, 2013. (Climate and Capitalism via Common Dreams) Why unions need to join the climate fight by Naomi Klein I’m so very […] Read more »
by Will Skyrme As Labour is in decline there is a chance for a new socialist party to establish itself, but can it avoid the same mistakes that compromised their predecessors? In November a new political party called Left Unity will be born. This project has sprung from two principal sources in the landscape […] Read more »
Jim Jepps on the state of Left Unity, its potential, and the dangers ahead. We are what we do. While the stories we tell about ourselves can be interesting, significant, enduring or helpful they are rarely the best guide to what an organisation is. Before the 2010 General Election I had many conversations with Liberal […] Read more »
Over recent weeks there have been two contributions on the Left Unity website – from Soraya Lawrence and from Kat Burdon-Manley – which have focused on questions of how Left Unity (and the labour movement more generally) should relate to questions of women’s rights. These are of course issues which Left Unity as a whole, […] Read more »
By Simon Hardy, Lambeth Left Unity Capitalism is a social-economic system which concentrates power and wealth in the hands of a minority who own economy. They own the banks, supermarkets, the factories, the transport networks and key utilities. They run these enterprises for profit and they sell their services and goods on the market. The […] Read more »
This Autumn will see a major conference in London take place on the issue of Ireland, reports Jayne Fisher. The conference on 19 October is hosted by Sinn Fein in order to provoke some serious discussion around the issue, ‘Towards a New Ireland’, looking at the future relationship between Britain and Ireland. It is something […] Read more »
The momentous decision by Parliament on August 29 not to participate in a military attack on Syria raises important points both for the trends in British politics and for economic policy, says economist Michael Burke. SEB has repeatedly argued that there is no prospect of a Tory election victory in 2015. After the failure of Cameron’s military […] Read more »
by Gilbert Achcar The best way to “punish” the Syrian regime is to enable the popular uprising to break it, not to bomb the country. In a rare instance of the executive in a Western imperial state taking “parliamentary democracy” in earnest, the UK government consulted Parliament about military action against the Syrian regime without […] Read more »
George Venizelos looks at Syriza, In this period of radical social and economic changes, the spark of SYRIZA, the Coalition of Radical Left, as its name stands for, gave hope to some of those who felt betrayed and pessimistic about the future of socialism. For in Greece, a radical party seemed to be threatening […] Read more »
by Marcus Halaby, Hackney Left Unity On 21 August, reports emerged that hundreds of people had been killed in a chemical weapons attack in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held agricultural region just outside of the Syrian capital Damascus. With reports of up to 1,700 dead, this atrocity is just the latest in a long series of […] 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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Summer University, 11-13 July, in Paris
Peace, planet, people: our common struggle
The EL’s annual summer university is taking place in Paris.
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