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Steve Freeman reports on the march against library closures. On Saturday 5 November thousands marched from the British Library in central London to Trafalgar Square to protest against library closures, part of the fight to defend culture, education and the public right to have free access to these cultural resources. Read more »

Michael Roberts on the problems facing British capitalism Class, the left-wing British think-tank, funded by the trade unions, held its second major meeting to discuss the state of the British economy and society and the policies to deal with it. The theme title was ‘Britain at the Crossroads’ and, naturally, the issue of Brexit dominated […] Read more »

Phil Hearse reports on the latest wave of arrests in Turkey. Turkish police arrested November 2 the two co-chairs of the left-wing, pro-Kurdish, HDP (Peoples Democratic Party), and nine other HDP MPs. Arrest warrants for all the party’s 59 MPs have been issued. After the raids to arrest Demirtas and Yüksekdag, it was reported that the […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling writes Storm clouds are gathering over our National Health Service. Yet when campaigning on the streets, there is overwhelming support for the NHS. It is the issue that most concerns people at present according to this survey. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/oct/09/nhs-is-most-widely-held-concern-of-uk-adults-survey-finds This is a new era for campaigning. Once if there were demonstrations marches, pickets, petitions […] Read more »

Glyn Robbins appeals for people to attend the Axe the Housing Act summit this coming Saturday The growing mess around the Housing and Planning Act partly results from a failure to relate abstract policy to peoples’ everyday lives. Here are some examples of how things would have been different on the council estate where I […] Read more »

A statement from the Jewish Socialist Group on the parliamentary report on anti-semitism The Jewish Socialists’ Group (JSG) condemns the Home Affairs Select Committee’s report on Antisemitism as a shoddy piece of politically motivated work. It has contorted the serious issue of antisemitism and turned it into an instrument to attack Jeremy Corbyn and the […] Read more »

This is an edited and expanded version of the speech that Pete Green gave at the funeral of Matthew Caygill who died earlier this year. Matthew was a founder and much valued member of Left Unity. Pete is a former member of Left Unity who has now joined the Labour Party and was one of […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling on the need to keep building all the campaigns to defend the NHS Across the country there are hundreds of campaigns to defend local hospitals, maternity provision and  Accident and Emergency and local NHS services, including action against private GP providers. Campaigns like keep our NHS public, call 999 for the NHS, the […] Read more »

Across the country – but especially in Lancashire – there is dismay and real anger about the government decision to allow fracking in that county. Last time the exploratory fracking caused an earthquake in Blackpool. This time it will cause a political earthquake. Left Unity principal speaker Felicity Dowling said: ‘In response to the decision to permit fracking […] Read more »

Kate Hudson writes: Jeremy Corbyn’s re-election to the leadership of the Labour Party on an increased vote is a significant victory for the left in the Labour Party and for progressive politics in Britain. It is a victory that everyone on the left celebrates.  It demonstrates the strength of support that exists for changing the […] Read more »