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The second section of a two-part article from a senior figure in the labour and trade union movement who joins the debate on Left Unity and urges those involved in Left Unity to consider that we might be wrong. Impact of the Crisis However, it could well be argued that the economic crisis changes the […] Read more »

I am not sure who coined the phrase “a UKIP of the Left” as something that is urgently required, but whoever it was, they got it dead right. The voting on Thursday may have been predominantly rural rather than urban, but the absence of a serious left challenge allowed the xenophobes to cash in on […] Read more »

  On Friday 29 people met in Liverpool for the first meeting of Left Unity It was largely a word of mouth meeting with no leaflets or mailing list so the organisers were both pleases and surprised. It had started off just as a meeting of three people to discuss geographical divisions in the Merseyside/ […] Read more »

Scunthorpe Left Unity had our first meeting on Saturday, there were eight of us and some sent apologies. A great mix of ages, a pretty good gender balance and a spectrum of political backgrounds. The discussion was extremely positive, key issues were around our relationship with the Labour Party and what we do locally to […] Read more »

A contribution to the discussion from Left Unity supporter Simon Hardy and member of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative Left Unity is taking shape. Several local groups have now been formed and a delegate conference will lay the basis for building the organisation in the coming months. The electoral successes of UKIP and the inevitable swing to […] Read more »

Jen Ross gives a brief personal report of Saturday’s  Manchester Left Unity organising meeting. There will be five people from Manchester attending the May 11th group representatives meeting from the five Manchester groups. The picture was taken right at the start of the post May day rally meeting. It was rammed by the end. People […] Read more »

Phil Hearse wrote this piece for his site Crisis and Revolt.  The worst possible response to the local council elections in which UKIP won 25% of the vote would be complacency. For this result is shameful for both Labour and for the left-of-Labour left. While it’s true that the mainly rural areas and small town […] Read more »

Left Unity supporter Mark Perryman explores the who, what and how of a Left populism Of course there are plenty who have signed up to Left Unity who wouldn’t want to be in a party bearing any kind of resemblance to UKIP. But what we need to explore is not tacking right to embrace their […] Read more »

Left Unity supporter Iram Awan comments on the local council elections In the local council elections this week UKIP won a staggering number of seats. Apparently this was the biggest surge by a fourth party on these shores since the second world war. Naturally this sends chills down the spines of many on the left […] Read more »

Merry Cross from DPAC lays out ground rules to make meetings accessible for all. First your publicity needs to state explicitly that you welcome disabled people and will make every effort to meet any access needs.  If you don’t do this, disabled people will assume it is NOT the case (which is the norm) and […] Read more »