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Contact us at ludmc@mail.uk Left Unity Disabled Members Caucus This Left Unity Conference reaffirms its belief that the Left Unity Disabled Members Caucus exists to support and help educate disabled members whilst working with the wider organisation to understand that the dominant definition of disability is an oppressive social construct. To assist the work of […] Read more »

  ‘Neither Labourism nor Trotskyism” was the conclusion from the first article calling for an Alternative to the Left Party Platform and the Socialist Platform. These Platforms do not identify key questions which Left Unity must answer if it is to succeed. We have to learn from previous failures (SLP, SA, SSP, Respect and TUSC) […] Read more »

Is Left Unity heading towards a slow motion car crash at the founding conference? asks Mike Wayne. It could be if members fatalistically resign themselves to the idea that we must have a vote on the various platforms that have emerged. The platforms are probably the stupidest idea to have emerged from Left Unity and […] Read more »

Pete McLaren reports from Left Unity’s policy workshop conference, held in Manchester on 28 September, focusing on the internal democracy and constitution sessions. There were around 75 Left Unity members/supporters present at the Policy Conference.  The day was divided into three sessions with workshops on most of the areas covered by Policy commissions including health, […] Read more »

“Platforms have a crucial role in the culture and history of our movement. Was it not an anarchist platform that tripped a Tory MP to an early grave underneath Stephenson’s Rocket, a clear warning to that the Industrial Revolution would be built not only on the blood of the workers but of the Establishment too? […] Read more »

  Stuart King from Lambeth Left Unity gives his impressions of a recent South London discussion of platforms being put to the November conference. The joint meeting between Southwark, Lambeth and Lewisham LU members to discuss platforms being put forward at the November conference was very useful in clarifying the views and positions of the […] Read more »

  This version of our draft statement has been put together by Merry Cross and Terry Conway following commission meetings and comments from commission members. We think we need to discuss and develop it much further both in the commission and more broadly in Left Unity. We, rather than the commission  as a whole take […] Read more »

Vince Garton The debate over platforms in Left Unity has revealed some very instructive features of the debate that is going on within the broader leftist movement. I want to draw attention in particular to the fear that some have expressed that by adopting an explicitly socialist platform that calls for radical change in capitalism, […] Read more »

John Keeley At the TUC conference the General Secretary, Frances O’Grady, asked political parties to make five pledges to voters: to restore the goal of full employment, build one million new council and affordable homes, guarantee fair pay, strengthen the welfare state and ensure fair rights at work     Left Unity should think about […] Read more »