Internal LU
Anti-Racism Commission draft
Draft document for policy conference March 2014 Britain’s new racism 1. There has been a dangerous upsurge in racism in Britain in approximately the last decade, most recently compounded by the Woolwich killing. This has included a rise in racist attacks on the Muslim community, the rise (and subsequent fall) of the English Defence League, the […] Read more »
Economics Policy Commission draft
Draft document for policy conference March 2014 (As amended at Policy Commission on 01.03.14) Introduction – The Economic Context The global financial crisis which erupted in 2008 triggered the worst economic slump in many economies since the early 1930s. Six years on output had still not recovered to its previous peak in much of Europe, […] Read more »
Republican Socialism and Left Unity
The left in England needs a revolution in its politics, ideology and methods if it is to become fit for purpose, argues Steve Freeman. At present it is not ready to break with the politics of the post war left. Labourism, British Trotskyism and the British road to socialism maintain their grip over the political […] Read more »
Plans for the hard left
Jack Conrad on the Communist Platform after Left Unity’s founding conference Read more »
The regional road to LU’s growth and local credibility
John Tummon muses on the question of Left Unity in the regions Lambeth LU’s amendment No 26 would have moved LU towards a federal structure, whilst at the same time seriously cutting our regional capacity, in the name of strengthening branches; I was very pleased to see it defeated but, after that, the Wigan amendment […] Read more »
Left Unity LGBTQ caucus
The LGBTQ movement is an essential part of any liberation struggle. Together with the feminist, Black and Minority Ethnic and disability movements, it must be integral to any new radical and socialist party. The LGBTQ community has regularly been involved in the struggle against capitalist and patriarchal structures from the Stonewall riot in the 60s […] Read more »
Minutes of Left Unity Founding Conference November 30
1 Tom Ramplin from Bristol opened conference and moved Standing Orders Committee reports No 1 and 2. 2. Tom Ramplin proposed Liz Davies and Tony Mercer as chairs of conference. This was agreed. Liz and Tony took the chair 3. Tom asked for 16 volunteers as tellers. Volunteers came forward 4. Safe Spaces 4.1 Felicity […] Read more »
Founding Conference decisions 2
This is the amended constitution as agreed by the founding conference on November 30 Constitution as of 7-12-13 Read more »
Left Unity Constitution Final – Agreed 30 November Founding Conference
The Left Unity Constitution Final as agreed at the 30 November 2013 Founding Conference. PDF of the Constitution Other Left Unity Documentation can be found at: Documentation Archive Read more »
Founding statements
The two statements on this page were passed by Left Unity’s 500-strong founding conference on 30 November 2013. They were voted on after discussion and many valuable amendments by the party’s founding members, and lay the basis for Left Unity as a new party. Left Unity is now democratically developing more detailed policies in a […] 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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