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Protesters across the city, as part of a nationwide fight to oppose the introduction of the bedroom tax, recently marched up the city streets to St George’s Plateau to hear speakers and discuss follow up action. About 5-600 people or more combined two marches to wend their way shouting and chanting through traffic from Derby […] Read more »

Left Unity Women don’t want much, says Felicity Dowling- useful work, equality at work, a living wage, a working week leaving time for ourselves, family, fun and culture. We want affordable homes, health care free at the point of need, universal education, care for the elderly, good pensions, decent benefits for those who can’t work, […] Read more »

As the Alter Summit meets in Athens, it shares its Peoples’ Manifesto, outlining urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe ROLL BACK AUSTERITY AND CLAIM REAL DEMOCRACY! Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the peoples of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social […] Read more »

With Euro 2013 opening in Israel tomorrow Philosophy Football has spent the weekend in Palestine making a film about football there. In the autumn of 2011 Philosophy Football met Honey Thalijeh, then captain of the Palestine Women’s Football team. Inspired by what she told us about what football meant to her country we promised that […] Read more »

  The EDL and other far-right and fascist groups have been attempting to make political capital out of the brutal murder of an unarmed soldier in Woolwich. But the scale of protests this weekend have shown that we will not allow them to take our streets, as thousands have turned out to say that our […] Read more »

Tens of thousands of people joined protests in towns and cities across Europe yesterday. They were responding to a call from Portugal for a continent-wide protest against the actions and policies of the Troika – the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the  International Monetary Fund.  The three institutions are pushing European countries to […] Read more »

This morning the Taksim Gezi protest movement put out this call following yesterday’s brutal police attacks, the reported killing of at least two people and the wounding of 300 more. The attacks, which include tear gas and water cannon, were made on a peaceful protest to prevent building development at Gezi park in Istanbul: ‘Attention! […] Read more »

The brutal killing of Lee Rigby in Woolwich has led to a media frenzy about “Muslim terrorism”. Thankfully, however, horrific incidents such as the one in Woolwich are extremely rare. We in Left Unity believe that  it is necessary to question why the debates in the media about “Muslim extremism” are framed in the way […] Read more »

This Saturday 1st June London will be joining more than 100 cities in 12 European countries in an international protest against Austerity in Europe. People will assemble at 2 pm at HM Treasury, King Charles Street, London, and then march to the European Commission representation in the United Kingdom These protests follow the launch from […] Read more »

The DGB German trade union confederation has produced a manifesto which offers an internationalist answer to the crisis, reports Nicky Dempsey. It stands in sharp contrast to the bitter diet of xenophobia and racism which is being promoted across Europe. The DGB’s ‘Marshall Plan for Europe‘  is a first attempt by one of the leading […] Read more »