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  Keston Sutherland is the new Left Unity organiser for Brighton. He is a lecturer at Sussex university where he has given the students full support in their recent occupation. I am a 36 year old Brighton resident and a Reader in English working at the University of Sussex. I teach poetry, Marxist theory, Samuel Beckett […] Read more »

George Venizelos examines the current economic crisis in Cyprus and looks at its political and economic roots. The Eurogroup’s decision to proceed to a haircut on Cypriot savings accounts has caused mass discontent amongst the people of Cyprus and beyond. The decision of 15th March left the Cypriots shocked, angry, betrayed and swindled, after seeing […] Read more »

Dear supporters We’ve had an incredible response – more than 6000 of you have already signed up to support the appeal, with tens of thousands of hits on the website and groups springing up across the length and breadth of the country. Please continue to share the appeal with everyone you know – http://leftunity.org/appeal/ – […] Read more »

The latest growth data confirm that Ireland went back into recession at the end of 2012. Despite all the talk about corners being turned, we find that economy is going backwards, says economist Michael Burke. GDP is lower than it was in 2009. GNP, which does not include the effects of movements in profits by […] Read more »

“I think there’s a new mood among people. The serious attacks on public services, on the N.H.S. and education, the savage cuts on the poorest people and the general cynicism with politicians – all this makes us determined to find an alternative. Let’s make a start, in an open and democratic way.”   Thank you […] Read more »

Peter Hill responds to Ed Rooksby’s recent article on this website. Rooksby outlines three possible models for left-wing organization in Britain, which are emerging, he argues, in ’embryonic form’. The first is the ‘networked movement of the Left’ called for by Owen Jones, ‘which would encompass activists from both within and outside the Labour Party’; the […] Read more »

The cause of left unity in the face of an all-out assault on the working class by this Conservative government has never been more necessary nor more urgent, says Salman Shaheen. But if Left Unity passes its first hurdle, bringing together the myriad squabbling clans who can sometimes seem to spend as much time attacking […] Read more »

I’m sick of feeling unrepresented, says Adam Roden. I’m sick of my only choice being Labour, a party that maybe once, long ago, would have been the right choice. I’m sick of the Right-wing parties of this country having all the drive, all the ideas, all the tub-thumping, crowd pleasing rhetoric (however much I might […] Read more »

Two initiatives are before the British left as we move, possibly, to summer. The People’s Assembly in June and Ken Loach’s call for a new left organization around Left Unity related to his excellent Spirit of ’45 film writes Keith Flett of the London Socialist Historians Group. This is an historical note so I don’t […] Read more »

For the first time in a long period the conditions for the emergence of a broad left coalition of forces in the UK capable of attracting large-scale support seem ripe, says Ed Rooksby. These conditions have been generated and shaped, in my view, by four major interconnected political and economic developments. These developments themselves comprise […] Read more »