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    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 »

Ken Loach’s open letter discussing a new mass party of the left, and the response it has received, is impressive, says Ben Wray from the International Socialist Group in Scotland. It confirms what has become increasingly obvious in recent years: the failure of the left to make a significant ideological and political breakthrough since the […] Read more »

Murray Smith responds to the European dimension of the ‘flutter’ articles. He is a member of the anti-capitalist party déi Lenk in Luxembourg, and of the Executive Board of the Party of the European Left. Having followed with sympathy the emergence of Left Unity and the possibility of a new party of the Left being […] Read more »

Tomorrow, Saturday, is Left Unity’s first national get-together. Local group representatives from more than 80 towns and cities will come together to take the first important steps towards the national conversations Left Unity needs to have: What do people in local groups think, and what have they been doing locally? What are our politics – or […] Read more »

Doncaster activist Louise Harrison challenges Labour to put up a fight. Interesting. This argument for me encapsulates everything I’ve heard over the last two years from Labour Party Unite members who argue that the Labour Party is like it is because people like me aren’t in it pulling it to the left. In reality it’s […] Read more »

In the first section of a two-part article, a senior figure from the labour and trade union movement joins the debate about Left Unity Left unity is the motherhood-and-apple-pie of socialists.  The unspoken (and sometimes spoken) assumption is that if only the left could crack the unity problem – the Rubik’s Cube of political intervention […] Read more »