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Mark Perryman from Philosophy Football explores a year when the tide turned against Fascism Ken Loach’s recent film Spirit of ’45 brilliantly celebrates the triumphant mood that delivered a Labour Landslide election victory at the end of World War Two and the establishment of both the Welfare State and nationalised public utilities. What is made less obvious […] Read more »

Left Unity prides itself in not having any existing political groups involved on an official level – which is exactly its problem, says Tina Becker from Sheffield Left Unity and the CPGB About 100 people attended the first national gathering of Left Unity on May 11 in London’s Ambassador Hotel. The gathering certainly succeeded in […] Read more »

Micheline Mason is a member of Wandsworth Left Unity, and pleased to be part of the Left Unity ‘adventure’. Here are some of her thoughts on Saturday’s meeting: I am so pleased to be part of this adventure, right from the beginning.  I felt more at home in that lovely, warm, messy, slightly chaotic gathering […] Read more »

Annie Higgs from Oxford Left Unity writes to us about Saturday’s meeting and the future Dear Left Unity I’ve just set up my direct debit for membership to Left Unity, an organisation that isn’t yet fully fledged. It’s not a huge one but I can afford it and it’s regular. I do, however, realise that […] Read more »

  Bianca Todd is the Left Unity organiser for Northampton and she is one of the ten people elected at the Left Unity meeting last Saturday as part of the new national co-ordinating committee.    I am the grand-daughter of former general secretary of the TGWU Ron Todd and the assumption that can be made […] Read more »

    These are the results for the ten directly elected places on the new Left Unity National Co-ordinating Committee. At our first national meeting we agreed the procedure for electing the NCC The procedure is: Local group reps elected by the local groups, one per group, where the group has at least 5 members […] Read more »

Liz Gray from Leicester Left Unity on yesterday’s national meeting The morning began with introductions and what you might broadly call statements of attitude and belief: it was interesting to hear where people were coming from and what they wanted from the group, where they thought it should go and what they might bring to […] Read more »

I would like to thank Louise for her contribution in telling us ‘how it is’, says Jenny Slaughter, Left Unity’s new contact person in Hebden Bridge.  I would also like to thank her for not bringing Marx, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin, Rosa Luxemburg or Gramsci et al into her discussion because, try as I might, it […] Read more »

Left Unity’s first national meeting has elected 60% of women to the directly-elected section of its new National Co-ordinating Group, reports Kate Hudson. During an enthusiastic and exuberant – and occasionally fraught – first national meeting, Left Unity agreed the composition and procedure for electing its first National Co-ordinating Group, and promptly elected a majority […] Read more »

A report from yesterday’s first national meeting of Left Unity local group representatives by Stuart Watkins from the Leamington Spa group. Back in March of this year, the film maker Ken Loach issued an appeal in The Guardian newspaper for a new party of the left – one that would fill the gap in Britain […] Read more »