Internal LU

Pete green from Hackney Left Unity comments on the consensus of Left Unity’s aims at a local level and the platform debate. Some of you who have looked through the package of documents for the founding conference, available on the website, may have noticed a document from “Tower Hamlets/Hackney”  set amidst the various platform proposals […] Read more »

Amendments appear in the text below in the order in which they will be voted on: DRAFT LU CONSTITUTION 1) NAME.  The name of the party shall be (TO BE DECIDED BUT THIS DRAFT WILL PROVISIONALLY CALL IT LEFT UNITY- LU) 2) AIMS (voted on separately) The aims of Left Unity are: a) to unite the diverse strands […] Read more »

Steve Wallis of Manchester Central Left Unity proposed changes to the Left Party Platform submission for the aims section at the founding conference, which, after discussion, were submitted as two separate amendments to those aims for debate at the conference. The justification for those amendments are Steve’s personal views. One of the problems of the […] Read more »

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Press and Observers please register for the Left Unity Founding Conference on Saturday 30 November by filling in the following forms. – Press Registration Form –  UK Observer Registration Form –  International Observer Registration Form   Read more »

There have been contributions to the conference debate, and there is a motion on the agenda, suggesting that no vote should be taken on the aims motions, particularly those put forward by platforms. The suggestion is that to do so at this stage is undemocratic and unnecessarily divisive. In reality, I think the opposite is […] Read more »

A proposal for a Left Unity branch of a non-geographic nature By Garry Macdonald   This proposal is to establish a Left Unity branch for individuals who are the only members in their local area or who have a local group which is currently inactive. At present there are a significant number of Left Unity […] Read more »

By Garry Macdonald After being a Left Unity member for a few months now I am puzzled why more people seem to be concerned with debating what flavour of socialist or leftist party Left Unity should be on the main site instead of getting involved in the policy commission forums. I would suggest that whatever […] Read more »

   Kathrine Brannan and Henry Nowak, supporters of the Socialist Platform, present a case against attempting to hide a Marxist revolutionary identity within a ‘broad radical movement.’                                   Let’s refuse the Trojan Horse trickery of a ‘revolutionary Left deeply […] Read more »

    In the run-up to the Founding Conference there is a dynamic debate going on, not just about the ‘aims’ of the Party, or the key issues we want to focus upon, but about the very nature of the party we are proposing to be.   I have signed up to the Left Party […] Read more »