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There is a mad elephant tethered in the room of the Conservative Manifesto, wtites Felicity Dowling. That elephant is the dominance of service and finance industry in the UK, the sector that nearly broke the world economy in 2008. Linked to this dependence on finance and the service industry is the limited size of manufacturing […] Read more »

Left Unity welcomes the Labour Manifesto. We welcome its vision of a society which works for the many, not the few. It presents a significant advance in a number of areas over previous Labour policy, attempting to reverse key concessions that Labour has made to neo-liberalism over many years – most notably the privatisation agenda […] Read more »

Standing Orders Committee Report No. 2   Code of conduct for Lefty Unity National Conference Refer to Standing Orders Committee: for advice on standing orders including procedural motions and in case of complaints for questions relating to order of debate Furthermore, SOC recommends that conference attendees: should respect authority of the chair during session should […] Read more »

Left Unity 2017 Spring Conference Interim List of Motions and Amendments-1 Read more »

Neil Faulkner writes: Note to self: when it comes to the Labour Party, expect the unexpected. Like everyone else, I was astonished when Corbyn first surged to victory in the Labour leadership election back in September 2015. I must confess to further astonishment at the leaked Labour election manifesto. Few of us are privy to […] Read more »

A report from the Mental Health frontline appraises the Conservative Party’s announcements on mental health reform. If you were to believe Tory party statements around NHS mental health care over the past few years you would almost think that standards of mental health care, service user satisfaction and staff morale would be positive and on […] Read more »

Declaration by Pierre Laurent: French Communists call for left unity to block the road to Macron’s counter-reforms and the Front National This evening, the candidate of the Front National has been soundly beaten. This is a great relief. Sixty five percent of the voters did not want the head of the state to be someone […] Read more »

Susan Pashkoff looks at the politics of recent elections As has been evident from the election results that we have seen in the States, the Presidential elections in France, the Netherlands, and Austria, and the Brexit referendum in Britain we are seeing a polarised electorate which is impacting upon the votes for centre-right and centre-left candidates […] Read more »

The worst has been avoided – time for a Defiant Left! Voters have rejected the immediate danger of the right-wing taking power and what it would have entailed: challenging fundamental freedoms, rolling-back democratic and social rights, persecuting foreigners, ‘preference nationale’ or putting the ‘French first’ in a bid to whip up racism … Nearly 11 […] Read more »

Nick Jones looks at some of the responses from the French left to the Presidential election results tonight   The far right allies of the Front National have little to celebrate this evening as yet another country rejects the politics of division and hate. The latest election analysis from Ipsos Sopra Steria suggests a strong […] Read more »