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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 »

Left Unity national secretary Kate Hudson pays tribute to Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro stood for the liberation of humanity: not only for his own country Cuba whose struggle for freedom from US imperialism he led and won alongside Che Guevara; but also for the peoples of the world fighting for self determination, freedom from colonialism […] Read more »

Last week Parliament passed The Investigatory Powers Act, voting in the most sweeping surveillance powers of any country in western Europe and even the USA.  It legalises extensive snooping and hacking by the security services and means that no one now has the right to communicate privately or securely. Read more »

With John McDonnell’s comments welcoming Brexit as ‘an enormous opportunity’ and Clive Lewis’s on resisting freedom of movement, Labour has finally collapsed completely before the UKIP/Tory bulldozer on Brexit. McDonnell indicated that Labour would not seek to delay Brexit, presumably irrespective of the terms being proposed by the government. Lewis, remarkably, appeared to suggest that […] Read more »

Phil Hearse on the Trump victory The shocking victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential elections is a major turning point that is part of, and will give new momentum to, a surge to the right in world politics. The international situation is dealt with below, but for starters we should note that there […] Read more »