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  Solidarity with Women in Poland who are on strike today in defence of abortion rights. Abortion is already difficult in Poland and now the government is proposing a total ban with the threat of imprisonment. Left Unity sends our warmest greetings and solidarity.   Read more »

Left Unity’s 2016 National Conference recommits ‘to the radical socialist principles of our party’ Read more »

Left Unity condemns the position advanced in today’s Fabian Society report calling for the Labour party to back an end to free movement. It wrongly states that EU migrants are responsible for downward pressure on wages and reductions in living standards. This is not true. Reports show that immigration is a net contributor to the […] Read more »

  Paul Clarke writes The proposal by Theresa May and her Brexit cabinet to substantially increase the number of grammar schools is a further step towards entrenching class privilege – despite their false claim that grammar schools increase social mobility. It is a part of a series of measures aimed at refocusing working class education […] Read more »

Louise Harrison writes from Doncaster. If you are a working class woman living in today’s Britain, it’s fairly guaranteed you will be experiencing one of three things; low pay, unwanted reduced hours or living in fear of public sector cuts that will take away your much needed job. Consequently, you will have some type of […] Read more »

Ruth McTurk writes: The Housing and Planning Bill passed into law in May, and is now the Housing and Planning Act.  But the campaign against the Act is far from conceding defeat:  previously known as Kill the Housing Bill, it’s now renamed and re-focused as Axe the Housing Act.  There is still alarmingly widespread ignorance […] Read more »

Phil Hearse explains how the world’s richest company rips off workers and governments worldwide. The ruling by EU competition commissioner Margarethe Vestager that Apple should pay the Irish government €13.2 bn, because the derisory 2% tax charged on Apple profits was ‘unfair’ to other companies, reveals just a tiny corner of the tax, labour and […] Read more »

By Andrew Burgin We need to campaign actively against little Brexit Britain and the stripping away of our rights, and chief among those campaigns must be to defend the right to free movement. There are many aspects of life in Britain that those who voted leave hope will improve with Brexit. On holiday in Suffolk […] Read more »

By Dick Nichols August 2, 2016 It is hard to imagine a sharper contrast than that between the 10th National Convention of Portugal’s Left Bloc, held in Lisbon from June 24 to 26, and its predecessor, held in the same city 18 months ago. In 2014, the 9th National Convention of the radical left force […] Read more »

Economist Tom O’Leary explains why Freedom of Movement is fundamental to Britain’s economic development and prosperity The Brexit referendum campaign was dominated by assertions that the UK economy could benefit from access to or participation in the EU single market while opting out of the conditions on Freedom of Movement for workers. These assertions are […] Read more »