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The first meeting of Left Unity’s new national council on Saturday April 23 unanimously agreed to send a message of solidarity to the Awami Workers’ Party and the Anjman Mozareen Punjab (AMP) – the mass, peaceful peasant movement in the Punjab, which is facing massive repression for defending land rights. Women have played a significant […] Read more »

Left Unity is republishing the statement from the Jewish Socialists’ Group on antisemitism and the Labour Party which reflects our position on this question. Antisemitism exists and must be exposed and fought against in the same way as other forms of racism by all who are concerned with combating racism and fascism. Antisemitism and anti-Zionism […] Read more »

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Felicity Dowling on the verdict in the Hillsborough inquest The 96 Liverpool Fans were unlawfully killed, says the Hillsborough jury. The police were culpable. The fans were not at fault.  The stadium was at fault. The response of the police and ambulance services were at fault. People could have been saved had the ambulances reacted […] Read more »

The Left Unity National Council met on the 23rd April and agreed to release the following statement in support of Sadiq Khan and Malia Bouattia. Left Unity condemns the shameful racist and Islamophobic attacks on both London Mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan and the newly-elected NUS President Malia Bouattia. Rather than having an open and democratic […] Read more »

Andrew Burgin argues for a ‘Remain’ vote in the forthcoming referendum. On June 23rd the British people will vote on whether to stay in or leave the European Union. The European project is facing the most profound crisis in its history driven by the subordination of the European Union not to the needs of its […] Read more »

Steve Jefferys reports from France Where do Europe’s fascist-origin, populist and nationalist political parties stand on Brexit? Jumping for joy! They are lapping up the forward march of Leave in UK opinion polls. Until now they thought Cameron’s blatant electioneering manoeuvre to win voters away from UKIP was just that. The UK was certain to […] Read more »

Cameron has tried – but failed – to distance himself from the Panama papers, says Left Unity Principal Speaker, Felicity Dowling. The recent revelations and admissions show that he has dissembled the sources of his wealth. He has profited from offshore banking, inheritance tax management and the tax avoidance schemes that are the preserve of […] Read more »

Fred Leplat on the People’s Assembly demo next Saturday. The Tories are facing their biggest crisis yet. The revelation of David Cameron’s stake in his father’s off shore tax haven, proves that this is a government for the privileged few, not for the majority. This shows beyond all doubt that Cameron is divorced from the […] Read more »

Junior Doctors in England are taking strike action again today for the fourth time. On many picket lines they were joined by teachers who are preparing their own action to defend education and by patients showing solidarity with the action of the doctors. Simon Pirani reports from the picket line at Queen Elizabeth hospital. Junior […] Read more »