Editorial

The Party of the European Left (EL) condemns the coming attack of USA and its western allies to Syria for several reasons. Our only guideline is the interest of the Syrian population. We condemn all the crimes committed for 2 years against the civilian populations: those of the Assad regime who took the responsibility of the […] Read more »

Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on foreign affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has spoken out against the reported plans of Britain, France and the USA to attack Syria. Crowe believes that foreign military intervention will increase the death and destruction that the Syrian people are experiencing and called on world leaders to work towards a ceasefire and peace […] Read more »

Kevin Ovenden, a national officer of the Stop the War Coalition, looks at the arguments about whether protest makes a difference – and what we need to do now. It may seem wearily familiar – a rush to war, disputed intelligence dossiers and a determined effort to proceed without even UN Security Council authorisation. There […] Read more »

This is an article by Josiah Mortimer, a Green Party member and Left Unity supporter from York. It was originally posted at brightgreenscotland.org  It’s a question many Greens are asking themselves – whether to put their names to the Left Unity project, the nascent party which has thus far seen nearly 10,000 people sign up […] Read more »

Bob Williams-Findlay explores the political question of ‘disability’  What is disability? If you were to ask a mixed group of disabled and non-disabled people this question the chances are that the number of answers given could almost add up to the same number as those present in the room! The problem is that there are […] Read more »

Although the ideas for this article have been floating around for some time, it was the publication of the article and short discussion on Left Unity representatives, that has spurred me to put some of these to pen and to paper, creating the more lengthy article below, writes Dave Edwards. It is perhaps a truism, […] Read more »

What role can our elected representatives have in the defence of our living and working conditions? Walsall Democratic Labour Party councillor Pete Smith recently sent the following letter to the Walsall Advertiser: Last year I was the only Councillor (out of 60) who actually voted AGAINST the multi-million pound Walsall Council budget cuts for 2012/13 […] Read more »

It is very likely that soon Left Unity will be established as a new political party, says Tim Nelson from Bristol Left Unity. It is obvious that none of us want it to be yet another small fringe organisation, but instead we hope to build a new mass party, rooted in the working class. It […] Read more »

It may be thought that it is rather premature to discuss the role of possible future Left Unity Party Councillors, MPs, MEPs, etc, when we don’t even have a proper Party yet, says John Penney from Crewe Left Unity.  However, differing opinions which have already emerged in discussions on the LU Policy Commissions site, suggest […] Read more »

Chris Strafford and Rachel Brooks from the Anticapitalist Initiative discuss the need to defend and extend struggle for LGBT equality in our schools. The revelation that at least 40 schools in Britain have introduced homophobic Section 28-like rules banning the “promotion of homosexuality” has to be met with a calls for them to be overturned. […] Read more »