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Left Unity congratulates Ken Loach and his team for winning the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival with I, Daniel Blake. The film is a powerful and damning indictment of the government-provoked crisis in the welfare and housing sectors which leaves hundreds of thousands struggling to survive. Ken Loach has an outstanding track […] Read more »

Doug Thorpe reports: The Housing and Planning Act 2016 received Royal Assent on 12 May 2016. The House of Lords had passed a number of amendments to the Bill. But after a process of the amendments going back and forth between Commons and Lords (official known as ‘ping pong’) the Lords agreed to drop (or […] Read more »

At the Cannes press conference for his new film “I, Daniel Blake”, Ken Loach spoke about austerity, neoliberal EU, the dangers of an exit vote and the significance of Jeremy Corbyn’s election on the leadership of the Labour Party. Watch the entire interview. Read more »

We are republishing this review by Mike Dempsey of the work of the great graphic designer David King who died last week. Mike originally  wrote the article in 2001 and we post it here with his permission. I’m very sad to hear that this influential and single-minded designer, writer, collector and author died suddenly on […] Read more »

As the EU referendum approaches, the debates are stepping up. Left Unity is supporting the Another Europe is Possible campaign which has announced the first wave of dates for a nation-wide speaker tour in late May and early June. The tour starts with an event in London on May 28th with Yanis Varoufakis, John McDonnell and […] Read more »

Members discussion of the implications of Brexit and priority campaigns for Left Unity. Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, N1 Read more »

Spain’s two biggest left wing movements, Podemos (‘We Can’ in Spanish) and the Izquierda Unida (United Left – IU), have announced the formation of an electoral bloc for the June 26th general election.  In the lists of candidates submitted, Podemos will be allocated six seats for each one for IU, which most commentators think is […] Read more »

Left Unity welcomes the election of Sadiq Khan as the new Mayor of London. He won on a high turnout and by a large majority. He becomes the first Muslim Mayor of a major European city.  The Labour Party did well across the capital. The substantial victory for the Labour Party in the London elections […] Read more »

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 »