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Left Unity sends its solidarity greetings to Freedom Press and all who work there. In the early hours of this morning the Freedom Press bookshop in Whitechapel was firebombed. At about 5.30am a window was smashed and petrol poured into the shop and set alight. Freedom Press was founded in 1886, it is the largest […] Read more »

Sixty years ago today, floods and gales shattered the east coast and its communities. Every East Anglian of a certain age still remembers the 1953 floods, when sea walls were breached in over 1,000 places, and more than 300 people died. Three events combined: full moon, a deep trough of low-pressure that sucked up the sea […] Read more »

Labour councillors marched alongside anti-cuts campaigners in Derby last night to show their opposition to the axing of vital services. Derby City Council’s 28 Labour members took to the streets before a budget meeting, joining a protest organised by the local trades union council and the People’s Charter campaign group. A Derby Labour Party spokesman […] Read more »

GMB members employed by Brighton & Hove City Council are facing massive cuts to their take-home pay following Green Party & Conservative plans to alter their terms and conditions. At a meeting of Brighton’s Policy and Resources Committee on 24th January 2013, Green and Conservative Councillors forced through a measure* which authorised Council officers  to […] Read more »

On the 70th Anniversary of the Victory at Stalingrad, Mark Perryman, explains why this battle and its outcome still matters today. Seventy years ago, 2 February 1943 is the date of the Red Army victory at Stalingrad. From the moment of near-certain defeat the previous year the siege of the city, Hitler’s gateway to success […] Read more »

Today an estimated 25,000 people marched to save Lewisham Hospital from having its A&E Department closed, and other services severely downgraded, in plans put forward by a government-appointed NHS Special Administrator, Matthew Kershaw. This was part of his solution to the financial problems of a neighbouring NHS Trust, the South London Healthcare Trust, burdened with […] Read more »

On January 22, Global Economy and Development at Brookings hosted Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the Greek opposition, for a conversation about Greece and the economic challenges ahead. Tsipras’ remarks touched on themes including: economic and social prospects for his own country; the relationship between Athens and the rest of Europe, including what reforms are needed […] Read more »

The Workers’ International welcomes the Left Unity website The establishment of the Left Unity website is a great step forward. Working people urgently need a voice that asserts their needs and is neither a narrow sect nor  kowtows to the establishment. Let’s hope it will become a real resource for everybody who wants to strengthen […] Read more »

By Helena Shehan Part 1 is here The unaffiliated left Another person with whom I had been in ongoing contact for a number of years was Christos Kefalis, who has translated a number of my publications into Greek. He is editor of the journal Marxist Thought and a book called October and Our Age, in […] Read more »

The deepening economic crisis and accelerating attacks on working people are compelling us to work in new ways. That was the conclusion reached by a number of people from a range of left backgrounds who came together yesterday to share views on overcoming the weaknesses of the left. Fragmentation, division, hostility – these have become […] Read more »