Internal LU

   Felicity Dowling has pulled together this latest draft of the Safe Spaces policy but many others have made proposals and suggestions which have been incorporated Left Unity wants to develop a safe and vibrant left and socialist organisation. Fighting for liberation and against oppressions and discrimination should be at the heart our organisation.  This […] Read more »

Friends, This new draft of the working constitution is the one which will debated on Saturday in Manchester. We have asked for their to be two sessions as this is such a crucial part of the founding conference in November. We will now start at 13:15 and end at 17:00 with a fifteen minutes break […] Read more »

Dan Jeffery, Assistant Branch Secretary Lambeth UNISON (personal capacity), and trade unionist of 15 years discusses building grassroots resistance in the unions. A recent article called “We are trade unionist…” was put on the Left Unity website by a supporter of the Left Party Platform, Felicity Dowling. I thought it was a good article and […] Read more »

A personal view from Tony Walker, a supporter of Left Unity. I am an artist / student aged 58 I come from a skilled working class background but also university myself. (In fact my uncle would have been about the same age and occupational profile as Ron Todd, my father was a pattern maker and […] Read more »

This motion, on the aims of a new Left Party, will hopefully be submitted for debate at the founding conference of Left Unity. It does not claim to be a complete programme – such an endeavour must be a collective effort that cannot be abstracted from the need for the left to develop much deeper […] Read more »

This policy motion was originally drafted for discussion at the founding conference of Left Unity, but given the agenda that has been decided for that conference, is more likely suitable for a subsequent policy conference scheduled for next spring. It contains a comprehensive policy framework that would guide the party to a consistent opposition to […] Read more »

Internal democracy and constitution Commission Yet more controversy! Hi all Who said party rules and constitutions are boring!?! We now have two alternative draft constitutions on the table Working Draft 4 – initially drafted by ourselves and heavily amended in the light of the many comments and contributions (we will be incorporating current comments shortly […] Read more »

In response to some to the comments posted by comrades, in particular  by Richard and Geoff, this revision of my version of the draft constitution contains a number of alterations.  The most significant are as follows:  I have inserted ‘radical’ and deleted ‘of the means of production distribution and exchange’ (sob) in section 2 (aims).  I […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling – a trade union activist of many years’ standing – outlines a proposed policy for the Left Party Platform  on trade unions. 1. We are socialist, feminist, environmentalist, trade unionist, internationalist and against oppression of targeted groups. 2. Left Unity is inseparable from trade unionism. For many, conditions both of work and at […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway (Hackney Left Unity) suggests we should hold our nerve. The founding process is painstaking because we are building something different We have to go through a more difficult phase after the initial euphoria of thousands signing up precisely because we are not repeating the model used by the Trade Union and Socialist Coalition […] Read more »