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99% of schools face cuts with an average of minus £107,754 per primary school and £470,433 per secondary school. It is a scandal and has to be fought, writes Nick Jones. Hundreds of teachers have gathered in Cardiff for the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers. Conference was addressed by Shadow Chancellor, John […] Read more »

Kate Hudson writes: Did anyone really think that a Trump electoral victory would spell the end of NATO? Well he did describe it as ‘obsolete’ during his presidential campaign. But he’s certainly changed his tune faster than you can say ‘New Cold War’. And I can’t say I’m surprised. This week Trump met with NATO […] Read more »

Left Unity strongly condemns the reported incarceration and abuse of gay men in Chechnya, Russia. We call for the closure of the reported detention centre for gay men in Chechnya. We send solidarity to all gay and Trans men suffering such oppression. Even stories of such oppression send shock waves around the globe and encourage […] Read more »

  Left Unity National Council condemns completely the witch-hunt against Ken Livingstone. This is being conducted by much of the mainstream media, the right wing of the Labour Party and supporters of the Israeli state in all parties. Left Unity makes a distinction between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, or the opposition to Zionist settler colonialism which supports […] Read more »

2017 Spring Conference Constitution Commission Report Read more »

The general election has seen a humiliating defeat for Theresa May – now reduced to a minority government Coalition of Chaos – and a huge surge to the Corbyn-led Labour Party, standing on a popular left-wing manifesto. Discussing the next steps is urgent: Read more »

Doug Thorpe from Haringey Left Unity writes: In July 2017 Haringey Council is proposing to sign a contract to hand over its land, property, and buildings including much of its Council Housing to a private company created jointly with private development company LendLease. The Council and LendLease will each own and control 50% of the […] Read more »

US President Donald Trump’s escalation of US militarism is now threatening to spiral out of control. He has already increased the defence budget by 54 billion dollars and pledged to strengthen and expand US nuclear weapons capacity. The most recent development is the firing of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase, in the […] Read more »

Left Unity congratulates the people of Ecuador and President Lenín Moreno on their electoral victory. With a participation rate of over 80%, the people of Ecuador have confounded those who have insisted that Latin America is destined to be governed again by the forces of the right. Ecuador has refused to become again a land […] Read more »

Ernie Tate’s latest letter is a review of the documentary film ‘I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO’ Now and then, and despite its capitalist and racial biases,our culture throws up something that can speak quite eloquently and uniquely about the times we’re living through.  In this case, I’m referring to an amazing documentary film that has […] Read more »