Editorial

In this article Mike Wayne posts a revised version of an earlier draft of 21 Principles for guiding policy making for the new party. He also identifies the need to start thinking about the principles that would underpin the internal structure of the new party and the principles that would guide its outward facing political […] Read more »

Kat Burdon-Manley – This essay is a contribution to the discussions we are currently having on the left about how socialists relate to gender issues. We often find socialists sidelining a gender analysis of oppression, in favour of a class analysis. (One recent example of this was that the effect of the cuts on women […] Read more »

Not even the opposition can face the public unscathed, says Will Skyrme. Not even those ordained by Her Majesty to oppose the current ruling clique can wonder freely in the righteous world of the un-egged. Quite apart from the deliciously appropriate nature of the tactic itself – sitting perfectly as it does on the right […] Read more »

  There is an important debate on Left Unity taking place within the left of the Labour Party. This is a response by Len Arthur to Peter Rowland’s post on the Left Unity initiative on the Left Futures website. Peter Rowland’s article which is now a post on the Left Futures blog raises key issues […] Read more »

I’m currently a couple of years into a long, drawn out process of doing up our flat, says Adam Roden. I’m trying to make a home that works out of a space that is, to a certain extent, flawed; with the kids, there are now four of us living in the top floor of a […] Read more »

“If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got”. The launch of Left Unity started a process that has needed to happen for a long time, say Rachel Archer and Josh Davies. The left is weak and lacks influence to challenge austerity, much less pose a meaningful […] Read more »

In a discussion about the merits of the Platforms that have been submitted within Left Unity, I was asked why I call the Left Party Platform ‘left reformist’ as opposed to ‘a different kind of socialist?’, says Ian Donovan from Southwark Left Unity. I think the differences between these platforms are more important than simply […] Read more »

The decision of Left Unity’s National Coordinating Group to allow political platforms to submit resolutions to the its policy commissions and national conference could prove to be one to regret if these platforms are allowed to exist on a permanent basis, argues Phil Waincliffe from Leeds Left Unity. Phil is also a supporter of the […] Read more »

Mike Wayne is a founding member of Left Unity and a member of the Southwark group. This is his contribution to thinking about the principles that might guide Left Unity policy making and practice. The document comes in two parts. An opening explanatory preamble and then a list of 21 principles which identify some of […] Read more »

Greece’s Coalition of the Radical Left, known as SYRIZA, held its first congress on July 10-14, reports Panos Petrou. SYRIZA shocked Greece and all of Europe in the spring of last year, when it nearly won two national elections – it fell just short of the centre-right New Democracy party and pushed the main centre-left […] Read more »