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In definitively rejecting UK membership of the Single Market in order to appease reactionary anti-immigrant sentiment, Theresa May has dealt a double blow to the UK economy. This decision removes Britain from the benefits of membership of the world’s largest market, hoping to replace it instead with a series of free trade deals at a […] Read more »

A long form piece from London based US feminist activist Susan Pashkoff on how Trump will deepen the war on women in the States. For those that have been watching the right-wing war on women for at least a decade, people may think that all we are going to see is a continuation of the […] Read more »

It’s not immigrants that failed to build the houses our economy needs and they don’t cause a race to the bottom on wages or conditions. Letter published in the Guardian, 10.01.17 A wave of hatred is sweeping Britain, with migrants blamed for a range of social ills. But migrants have not run down our public […] Read more »

Principal speaker Felicity Dowling writes Left Unity is proud to defend free movement: to support workers’ right to choose where they live and work. Support for all workers living and working in this country is crucial to the strength of the working class, to community cohesion and peace. It is crucial to our hopes for […] Read more »

Migrants are net contributors to society. All serious economic research has shown that migrants make a substantial net contribution to the British economy. Read more »

Left Unity Principal Speaker Felicity Dowling writes: The abomination that is the destruction of Aleppo, of  its people and of its buildings and services will be remembered for centuries to come, should humanity have the good fortune to last that long. War is part and parcel of capitalism, the more so in economic crisis as […] Read more »

This document lists the results of the debate at Left Unity conference: motions and amendments passed, defeated, and passed to other bodies. Read more »

Joseph Healy, principal speaker for Left Unity, attended the recent Plan B conference in Copenhagen. This is his report. The Plan B for Europe conference I attended two weeks ago in Copenhagen was organised by the Danish Red-Green Alliance and the Swedish Left Party. Unsurprisingly most of the attendees were Scandinavians, although there were delegates […] Read more »

Left Unity reports on the election  in Austria and Italy’s referendum. Sunday’s Austrian presidential election represented a significant defeat for the onward march of the far right in Europe. Although the Austrian presidency is mainly ceremonial, a victory for Freedom Party candidate Norbert Hofer over former Green leader Alexander van der Bellen would have put […] Read more »

Kate Hudson,  national secretary of Left Unity attended a centenary conference at Verdum last weekend with others from the European left to discuss and debate some of the historical lessons from that period. The Battle of Verdun, lasting from 21 February to 18 December 1916, was one of the largest and longest battles of the […] Read more »