Internal LU

Why I signed up for socialism Ed Potts   As someone who signed my name to the founding statement of the Socialist Platform, I feel motivated to explain my reasons for doing so and furthermore to encourage others to follow suit. This piece will probably stray into the personal rather than the conventionally “political”, so […] Read more »

Introducing – the Class Struggle Platform We have drafted a third ‘platform’ to extend the debate within Left Unity. Having read the two platforms currently circulating – the Left Party Platform and the Socialist Platform – we were struck by an obvious similarity between them. Neither address the immediate issues confronting the working class in […] Read more »

A debate has begun inside Left Unity – the project to set up a new party of the left in Britain – about what kind of party it should become. Here Tom Walker argues the case for the Left Party Platform In only a few months, more than 9,000 people have signed up to an […] Read more »

The following Statement is presented by the Socialist Platform in Left Unity for discussion and debate in the branches in the period before the November conference. You can view the accompanying artical, ‘Resistance and Change’ here. We welcome comments. If you agree with the Statement or want to find out more about the Socialist Platform, […] Read more »

The Socialist Platform has been established to promote socialist ideas within Left Unity and to argue that the party set up at the November founding conference should be explicitly socialist, with clear and unambiguous socialist aims and principles. The Socialist Platform’s ‘Statement of Aims and Principles for the [Left Unity] Party’ is presented for consideration […] Read more »

The extent to which we practise transparency and democracy determines whether we can be taken seriously, argues Mike Macnair Read more »

Mark Boothroyd is the Left Unity organiser for Southwark. As an activist committed to the Left Unity project, I have to voice my concerns and propose some radical measures in order to stop this entire exercise, which is so promising and could be so much, becoming diverted down a path which could lead to a […] Read more »

Ben McCall, of Doncaster, argues that Left Unity should develop as a movement for long term change, not a new party.  It should have a set of simple principles, as suggested here.  The Introduction below is an internal explanation of some of the thinking behind this approach and in part uses ‘our’ language – responding […] Read more »

  Welcome to the 4th posting of the Internal Democracy and Constitution Policy Commission. Following discussions, suggestions and amendments in earlier drafts a working document has emerged and is reproduced below. IT IS NOT A FINAL DOCUMENT AND NO DOUBT WILL BE CHANGED FURTHER. The purpose of this discussion is to look at this draft […] Read more »

The debate over whether Left Unity should consider itself to be socialist, and name the new party accordingly, continues. Andy Smith  from Leeds Left Unity draws on Hannah Arendt to argue that socialism fails to address individual morality – the different ways in which individuals respond to situations – regardless of economic system. As such, […] Read more »