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Calling all members: Would you like to stand for an elected position in Left Unity? Left Unity’s internal election process is beginning now and will be completed by the end of March.  Read more »

Left Unity Comment on Theresa May’s desperate search for political deals with dictators Stomach churning. That’s the only way to describe Theresa May’s love-ins on successive days with aspirant dictator Donald Trump and Turkey’s fully fledged version, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Both visits were brilliant endorsements and photo-ops for these extreme right wing politicians, but will […] Read more »

Nick Dearden on the death of TPP. This first appeared on Global Justice. It’s good news that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. In fact, the toxic deal – a pacific version of US-EU deal TTIP – was already dead before Trump took office. Popular pressure from trade unions and campaign groups in the […] Read more »

For those finding it difficult to keep up a list has helpfully  been produced of the repressive  excecutive orders and other reactionary actions signed off by Donald Trump. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs. * On January 19th, 2017, DT said that […] Read more »

Joseph Healy looks at the political crisis in Northern Ireland A crisis has arisen in Northern Ireland with new elections scheduled for the Northern Irish Assembly soon. Trust has broken down between the two leading parties under the power sharing agreement – Sinn Fein and the DUP – with Sinn Fein’s Martin Mc Guiness pulling […] Read more »

As Donald Trump becomes President of the USA, Left Unity Principal Speaker  Felicity Dowling sends solidarity greetings to all those fighting for a better world: “I am sending Solidarity greetings to friends, sisters, brothers, comrades and protesters around the world, to all who have the guts to say, on this day of all days, that […] Read more »

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 »