Internal LU

  These pages contain all the motions that have been submitted to the Left Unity Founding conference.  They are also being made available to  local groups. Because something appears here it does not mean it will be debated – Standing Orders Committee (SOC) will make recommendations about that. They will also recommend in what order […] Read more »

  The following motions have been submitted for this section of the conference:   A: Platform 9 3/4. 1) That we proceed to have a debate about the aims and values of the new party/organisation but that it is premature to vote at the founding conference for one of the existing platforms. 2) That we […] Read more »

Section B: Names for the organisation: The deadline for submitting names for the new party has now been agreed as 16th November. Local groups can submit proposals and back them up with a statement of up to 50 words if so wished. Registered participants for the founding conference will choose a name using the supplementary […] Read more »

Electoral Strategy Electoral support for a new left party will only advance to the extent that it is genuinely representative of working class communities, has no interests separate from theirs, and is an organic part of the campaigns and movements which they generate and support.  It will engage in the European, national and local electoral […] Read more »

A: For a Left Unity Trade Union Strategy Left Unity needs to clarify its relationship to organised labour, work within the grassroots of the trade union movement, and develop policies that links the crisis of working class representation to the development of a rank and file trade unionism. Following the Founding Conference, we agree to […] Read more »

Mel Kelly from Irvine has penned a poem about Left Unity   My grandfather fought in world war 2 to give a future to you and me   A future he was willing to die for – to keep the people of this country free But now he’s spinning in his grave, to see what […] Read more »

    1) NAME.    The name of the party shall be (TO BE DECIDED BUT THIS DRAFT WILL PROVISIONALLY CALL IT LEFT UNITY LU)   2) AIMS    The aims of Left Unity are:   a)    to unite the diverse strands of radical and socialist politics in the UK including worker’s organisations and trade […] Read more »

 The situation we face The effects of the Great 2008 Recession still blight Britain. One in ten workers and one in five young people are out of work. Real wages have been in decline since 2007. Public sector wages have been frozen for two years. Cameron and Clegg’s cabinet of 23 millionaires continues with its […] Read more »

In the light of positive feedback about our original platform documents some supporters have suggested that the platform ‘aims’ statement could be strengthened, before being put to conference, by including some elements from the background document, as well as on trade union work. This has been done and circulated to and approved by Left Party […] Read more »

  The [Left Unity] Party is a socialist party.  It seeks to bring about the end of capitalism and its replacement by the rule of the working class. Read more »