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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 »

Around 3,500 people marched through Leeds this weekend in a lively and vibrant Yorkshire regional demonstration to fund our NHS, writes Marc Renwick from Leeds Left Unity. Banners and placards from trade unions, political groups and community organisations filled the streets of the city centre in a call to the government to stop the underfunding […] Read more »

The racist and xenophobic Leave campaign, together with the election of right-wing demagogue Donald Trump in the US, are part of a dangerous turn to the right in world politics. Since the referendum, one third of black and Asian people in this country have experienced some form of racism. EU citizens are being used as […] Read more »

The following were elected as officers, national council and committee members as listed below. Where there were insufficient candidates or insufficient women candidates elected, nominations will be re-opened shortly. Principal Speakers: Sharon McCourt, Joseph Healy and Nick Jones National Secretary: Felicity Dowling Treasurer: Alice Kilroy Nominating Officer: Chris Hurley Membership and Communications Officer: Andrew Burgin […] Read more »

Joseph Healy writes Left Unity mourns the loss of the Irish republican leader Martin McGuinness and we convey our condolences to his family and to his colleagues in Sinn Fein and the nationalist community in northern Ireland. He dedicated his life to ending the colonial status of northern Ireland and the brutality of British rule, […] Read more »

This is the third of Ernie Tate’s letters to Left Unity detailing and analysing the struggles against Trump as they emerge on the other side of the pond. Ernie is a lifelong revolutionary who emigrated to Canada from Northern Ireland as a young man. He was one of the most important activists of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign […] Read more »

Left Unity will call for a ‘yes’ vote if a second independence referendum in Scotland goes ahead. Next week the Scottish Parliament, with its SNP-Green majority, will sanction the call by Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon for a second referendum, triggered by the passage through the Commons of the government’s Brexit Bill. However it […] Read more »