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Many of you may well attempt to keep up with events abroad, says freelance journalist Roland Wood. It might be because of family, friends and, for many socialists, a desire to express and give international solidarity. Yet it can be surprising, to some of us at least, how little is often known about how, and […] Read more »

Merry Cross shares an excellent piece of advice about how to challenge domineering behaviour in others – or address it in yourself. As a white disabled woman, I am already hugely bothered by the fact that too many thoroughly good people who joined Left Unity are thinking of leaving, because of the behaviour of white […] Read more »

  Join Left Unity at the People’s Assembly This Saturday’s People’s Assembly will be the largest gathering of the left that this country has seen for decades. Thousands of anti-cuts activists, trades unionists and campaigners struggling to defend the welfare state will meet at Westminster Central Hall in London. They will be planning a united […] Read more »

As the mainstream media remains quiet, the state violence in Turkey since the Gezi Park occupation is escalating. Kerem Nisancioglu sent this report from Istanbul on Saturday 15 June. Istanbul has been turned into a war zone. People have defiantly stood up to the brutality of state repression, seeking to reclaim Taksim Square and Gezi […] Read more »

Lewes Left Unity have held their first meet-up, Mark Perryman reports Last Thursday, signatories to Ken Loach’s Left Unity Appeal in the East Sussex town of Lewes, met up for the first time. We opted for abandoning the formalities of traditional Left meetings and instead we gathered in an artists’ cafe, sat on sofas and […] Read more »

Greek journalists striking in solidarity with ERT have issued their own solidarity newspaper with the title “Unbound Opinion”. Myrto Bolota and Christos Giovanopoulos from the Greek Solidarity for All organisation  have sent a short film that documents the publishing process of this newspaper  The paper was published last weekend Saturday/Sunday 15-16 June 2013 as a reaction to the […] Read more »

by Petros Diveris Apparently the writing was on the wall. On Tuesday 11 June 2013 the Greek coalition government passed through the parliament a “special executive order” which allows ministers to shut down public sector companies, organisations and departments at will, as a matter of urgency. Greece is increasingly governed with the use of “special […] Read more »

Mark Perryman reviews an argument for a new political vocabulary The latest installment of the hugely ambitious After Neoliberalism Manifesto from the politics and culture journal Soundings has just been published. Geographer Doreen Massey is the author. In her contribution she makes a key argument that has an increasing currency on the Outside Left, that […] Read more »

2010 marked the big change in world economics, argues Sophie Katz. And equivalent changes in world politics will follow. We know this because what happened in 2010 was the tipping over of a trend that started in 1995 into a new global economic reality. In 2010 the ‘developed’ countries’ share of world trade dropped below […] Read more »

Historic Day for Left Unity in Milton Keynes: Left Unity in Milton Keynes held its first ever public information stall on Saturday 8th June in Wolverton. As there is no actual centre in Wolverton we pitched our stall outside the Coop where there was some good space next to the post box and cash machine. […] Read more »