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In the second of a two part essay, Ed Rooksby sketches some broad strategic principles for a radical left party.  In the first part of this essay I argued that the current crisis must be seen as a systemic crisis of capitalism which is rooted in an underlying structural problem of low profitability. I also […] Read more »

 Micheline Mason has decided to resign from the Labour party in order to help us build Left Unity. Here is her resignation letter to Ed Miliband April 12th 2013 Dear Ed Miliband I am sorry to say that I have decided to resign from the Labour Party in order to help organise ‘Left Unity,’ a […] Read more »

Welcome to our fourth newsletter. Support for Left Unity continues to grow, amid popular outrage at the scale of spending on Thatcher’s funeral and the failure of the Labour leadership to properly criticise the devastation that her ruthless policies wreaked on our communities. Our website has been a focus for debate on the subject. 8,000 people have now signed the Left Unity appeal and […] Read more »

More than 80 local Left Unity groups have been formed and many have been having their first meetings. Here is an account of a few of them The first Huddersfield meeting We had our first Huddersfield group meeting on Wednesday. It was really good. We had 15 folks there (and 3 apologies). And although backgrounds/affiliation […] Read more »

Nick Long who works with the successful Lewisham People Before Profit party and who is now linked with Left Unity outlines his proposals for the new party. All the recent left initiatives at building a new party of the left have failed or only been a limited success. This latest initiative may perhaps be the […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway, a supporter of Left Unity and a member of the Fourth International examines the tepid and timid response from the far left to our new political project My dad used to say that if the other side are ignoring you then you are failing or not working hard enough. The activists supporting Left […] Read more »

Since Monday there has been a near universal media lockdown on dissenting views of Thatcher’s legacy. Mark Perryman explores how to break through the consensus, effectively yet sensitively. “Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there […] Read more »

Michelle Maher explains the importance of the War on Welfare petition The War on Welfare petition came about in a very ad hoc way. I am sure many a thesis is now written on the power and connectivity of Facebook and twitter. The reality is twitter does enable the sick and disabled to have a […] Read more »

As austerity measures bite while the economy continues to flatline, arguments for a Keynesian response to the recession are gaining traction. Marxist economist Michael Roberts casts a critical eye over the Keynesian case, arguing that it misunderstands the causes of capitalist crisis  A new radical think-tank kicked off last year in the UK. It’s got […] Read more »

Gioia Coppola reports on the workers’ assemblies and self-organisation taking place in Italy. There’s very good news from Italy.  Workers in the factories, in the private and public sectors, have launched an independent debate to defend themselves from austerity measures and are looking for alternative political and economic solutions to the crisis. Two different assemblies […] Read more »