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Tonia Katerini of Syriza describes the social solidarity movement rising as Greeks struggle for survival The first problem is that in Greece now we have 25 per cent unemployment, with youth unemployment reaching 58 per cent and unemployment in areas that used to be highly industrialised sometimes reaching 70-80 per cent. Many industries either close […] Read more »

Joseph Healy reports on the decision to stop providing HIV patients in Greece with anti-retroviral drugs. Just when it seems that things cannot get any worse in Greece, comes the news that antiretroviral drugs for HIV will not be given out any more as part of the subsidised national health system – a system already […] Read more »

An important meeting against austerity took place in Rouen this week. Hugo Daillan-Drissi from the Front De Gauche reports for Left Unity on the discussion at the meeting and future plans for an international campaign against austerity. This Wednesday in Rouen more than 500 people packed into the town hall to protest against the austerity […] Read more »

Salman Shaheen speaks out on his hopes for left unity Sixteen years of age, a naive young activist who’d read a bit of Marx and wanted to make the world a better place, I was walking along Lowestoft high street when I encountered a stall of scruffy-looking men campaigning against the impending Afghanistan war who […] Read more »

Dan Morgan, a former soldier, has called an anti-austerity protest in Trafalgar Square on May 4th. He set up a facebook group by himself and more than two thousand have responded to his call. Not being part of the traditional left here he explains his journey from soldier to activist.   My journey from Soldier […] Read more »

  Tonight 600 people crammed into the Archway Methodist Church. The meeting, chaired by Jeremy Corbyn MP,  heard speakers from Keep Our NHS Public, Defend the Whittington Hospital Campaign and other local MPs outline the next steps in the struggle to defend the services provided at the Whittington Hospital. The Board of the  Hospital has […] Read more »

Monday, February 11, 2013 Last night Greek musicians including Vasilis Papakonstantinou, who has worked closely with Mikis Theodorakis, Giannis Haroulis and others performed a benefit concert for the workers who are occupying the Vio.Me factory in Thessaloniki. The striking workers there had not been paid since May 2011. They have decided to restart production under […] Read more »

In the corridors of power, the idea of free education has in 10 years somehow become an almost unutterably radical demand, says student leader Michael Chessum Almost exactly three years ago, on 6 February 2010, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts was founded at a conference in University College London, in opposition to the then-New Labour […] Read more »

Yesterday,  Sunday, February 10th, New York labour and community organisations joined bus drivers in a protest march in a protest march over the Brooklyn Bridge culminating in a rally outside City Hall. They went to demand that Mayor Bloomberg back down on a decision to re-negotiate their contracts. The march and rally were held with […] Read more »