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A big advance for the international anti-war movement

Last Saturday, London hosted a historic conference against war and militarism. Three thousand packed in to Westminster Central Hall, over a thousand of whom came from at least 27 countries outside of the UK, including hundreds from France, Spain and Germany. Read more »


Left Unity National Conference 2026

In the midst of war, climate and environmental crisis, severe deliberate damage to public services, the cost of living crisis, poverty and hunger, repression of our rights to protest Read more »


What now for Left Unity?

Felicity Dowling writes: Our national policy conference will be held on the 12th April on zoom. We have major decisions to make. How, in 2026, do we best develop the ideas and ideals on which Left Unity was founded? Read more »


Trade Union Statement against the Illegal War on Iran

Trade union leaders have today issued this statement against the war on Iran: We condemn an illegal war on Iran and the abandonment of diplomatic talks by the United States under pressure from Israel. Read more »


Building an international peace conference

Left Unity deplores the ongoing attacks in France – on the left and on the Palestine movement. We publish here a statement from the Stop the War Coalition, laying out the key points. Read more »


Minneapolis Rises Up

Yorgos Mitralias writes: As the tragic and shocking events in Minneapolis mean that the crisis in the United States under Trump now seems to be reaching both its peak and its point of no return, Read more »


Hands off Venezuela

The shocking attacks on Venezuela by the US, and the abduction of its president has raised intense international opposition. Walter Baier, president of the European Left Party has stated, “Hands off Venezuela. Imperialism has no legitimacy. Read more »


Spain: a left-wing alternative in a conservative Europe

Ismael Gonzalez writes: The current European political landscape is dominated by the right. This statement is evident: one only needs to look at the governments of the centre-right and far-right—currently 16, of which four include far-right participation (Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and Finland). Read more »


No one is Illegal

Felicity Dowling writes: For many weeks now, immigration has been the top story in the media and not in a good way. The latest turn of events is the conflict between local authorities where refugees are being housed, Read more »


Opposing Anti-Migrant Terror

David Landau writes: We are living in dangerous times. There is a global resurgence of anti-migrant terror. The richest and most powerful people in the world (generally men) are driving far-right and fascist movements. Britain is no exception. Read more »



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