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Some people have asked about the difference between the People’s Assembly being held in June and the Left Unity project. Andrew Burgin explains that the initiatives are complimentary. Britain stands on the verge of a triple dip recession. The government is relentlessly pursuing its austerity policies. This year the unemployed, the disabled, the low paid […] Read more »

  The Greens are telling those calling for a discussion of a new left party that they should just join them instead. Tom Walker looks at the Green Party’s record “There is no need to reinvent the wheel,” commented Green Party deputy leader Will Duckworth on Ken Loach’s appeal to discuss a new party of […] Read more »

Film director Ken Loach has called for the creation of a new party of the left in Britain. Kate Hudson explains why she is supporting the call. Austerity is wreaking economic catastrophe on the people of Cyprus, but George Osborne is still following the same disastrous policies. This week’s budget comes as no surprise – […] Read more »

UPDATE: Cyprus and the division in the union  Kevin Ovenden updates his earlier article on the crisis devastating Cyprus.   Since then events have proceeded rapidly and dramatically. They will continue to do so. This introductory update is meant to highlight the political significance of some of those developments in a fast moving crisis. 1) […] Read more »

This is part two of Sophie Katz’s article on political representation. Part one was published last week and is on the debate pages of this site. Setting up literary utopias has been a dangerous business since Marx and Engels wrote ‘Socialism – Utopian or Scientific’ and it became catastrophic after Proudhon’s magnum opus on the […] Read more »

Dan Morgan, a former soldier, has called an anti-austerity protest in Trafalgar Square – and now other towns and cities – on May 4th. He set up a facebook group by himself and thousands have responded to his call. Here he outlines the progress made so far with the 99% against Austerity mobilisations. Well that’s […] Read more »

The SWP – one of the most successful organising forces on the British left over the last few decades – is close to death, says Salman Shaheen, its good work sacrificed on the altar of the cult a flawed model of democratic centralism created. I will spend no time mourning for there is no time […] Read more »

The leader of the left party in Greece, Syriza, has been in London this week speaking to academics, political supporters and leading British politicians and trades unionists. Here Michael Burke reports on the economics seminar he attended that Tsipras spoke at last Thurdsay There are 700,000 households in Greece that currently have no incomes at […] Read more »

In the last week of February, after days of protests across the country, the Bulgarian government headed by Boyko Borisov resigned. Mariya Ivancheva looks at how it happened and what comes next.   From the beginning of February, Bulgarians in most big cities have been out in the streets, protesting against the increased electricity and […] Read more »

CND General Secretary Kate Hudson on the victory over EDF Fantastic news today that EDF has dropped its £5 million damages claim against climate change campaigners No Dash for Gas who shut down EDF’s newly-constructed West Burton gas-fired power station for a week. This victory has been achieved thanks to a massive backlash from hundreds […] Read more »