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Left Unity will hold its third meeting this Thursday [Feb 28th] evening at 6.30pm. The meeting will focus on the two related themes of ‘Why is there no party to the left of Labour? and What sort of organisation do we want to see?’ Three comrades will lead off the discussion: Joana Ramiro from the […] Read more »

 Gilbert Mercier comments on French intervention in Mali In late December 2012, the  United Nations Security Council approved the dispatch of an “African-led intervention force” to Mali’s to help the army reconquer the north of the country from Tuareg separatists and their allied Islamist militants. But in recent days, it is not the African-led troops […] Read more »

  Haringey  TUC Secretary Keith Flett reports from the anti-cuts meeting in Tottenham this evening.   A successful meeting in Haringey tonight called for a united campaign against the cuts. The meeting was organised by the local trades union council and it sent a powerful message that uniting the fight against Government cuts can bring […] Read more »

Video preparing for the days of action during the EU spring summit in March 2013 Read more »

 Panagiotis Sotiris, Vice-president of the University of the Aegean Teachers’ Union, explores the problems of Higher Education in Greece    First of all, I would like to express my deepest feelings of solidarity to Egitim Sen regarding the recent wave of arrests. Governments all over the world want to get rid of trade union resistances […] Read more »

Thomas Kachel from Die Linke, the German Left Party, spoke recently at Stop the War’s ‘Ten Years On’ conference. He brought greetings from the party’s grass roots working group on peace and international affairs – the link between the party and the peace movement in Germany. “The greetings from my side are all the more […] Read more »

  Dave Renton explores the political writing of David Widgery David Widgery was a political writer. He devoted his life to communicating the ideas of Marxism, that society could be organised from below, and that workers could run the world. In his writing, he explained, he challenged, and he persuaded. His articles described the relationship […] Read more »

Last week Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boiko Borisov, resigned after several weeks of street protests against austerity, writes Gilbert Mercier Borisov announced his resignation in front of Bulgaria’s parliament after a night of violent clashes between protesters and police. More than 30 people had to be treated at hospitals due to police brutality. Ironically, Borisov justified […] Read more »

Keith Flett writes on the Dublin Lock-Out. He will be introducing a London conference on the Lock-Out which takes place at the  Institute of Historical Research  at midday on the 2nd March. Speakers include John Newsinger, Terry McCarthy, Terry Ward. Admission free The Dublin Lock-Out which started in August 1913 and ended in January 1914 […] Read more »

                                                        ‘An all too rare victory for the people of Haringey’ Keith Flett Haringey TUC, the North London Trades Council, has said that credit is due to Haringey Council leader Claire Kober and lead Councillor Alan Strickland after a Banksy stencil ‘Slave Labour’ removed from the wall of a Poundland store in Turnpike Lane […] Read more »