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a report from Nick Jones Around 60 people attended the Leeds Hands Off Our Homes Housing Summit in Leeds on Saturday 12th March. Quintin Bradley explained that the law. “Public money subsidy would be transferred from people on low incomes to people on high incomes. “The main plank of this policy is to stop the […] Read more »

by Matt Carr One of the most depressing and inane themes in the great British ‘debate’ about immigration is the idea that there is no debate about immigration. It’s a refrain emanating mostly from the right, which has been replayed for years like a stuck record.  It goes essentially like this; ‘we’ aren’t allowed to speak about  immigration […] Read more »

The Grunwick 40 Steering Group appeals for support August 2016 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the 2 year strike at Grunwick film processing in North West London. This strike, mainly of Asian women, received unprecedented levels of support from the wider movement, in contrast to the attitude of the movement to previous […] Read more »

Nick Jones from Leeds Left Unity reports The Health and Social Care Act 2012 opened up the National Health Service to unprecedented privatisation. Privatisation has soared by 500% with £5.5 billion worth of contracts going to the private sector. The NHS Reinstatement Bill aims to reverse the damaging attempts to undermine the NHS by reinstating […] Read more »

The ballot papers for Left Unity members to elect a new national committee and other bodies are being sent out on March 5. The lists of candidates and statements as to why they are standing are here: National officers and standing committees Directly elected section of National Committee Places on National Council for nations and regions […] Read more »

A debate between Joseph Choonara and Pete Green The forthcoming referendum has provoked a significant discussion inside the British Left. Phil Butland talked to two leading figures on the left about how socialists should respond to the referendum. Joseph Choonara is a leading member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP)  and the author of a new […] Read more »

Nick Dearden reports on the recent ‘Plan B’ conference in Madrid A former Madrid slaughterhouse, renovated to show the awe-inspiring beauty of its architectural design, was last weekend’s venue for the rebuilding of Europe. Two weeks after former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis told the EU to ‘democratise or disintegrate’, Spain played host to this […] Read more »

Left Unity and the EU Referendum Prime Minister David Cameron, has called the EU referendum for June 23rd. Left Unity will be campaigning for a ‘Remain’ vote and working alongside Another Europe is Possible. Serious criticisms can be leveled against the European Union, but unfortunately this referendum is not driven by the desire to make […] Read more »

by Matt Carr Last year’s election victory for Poland’s Law and Justice party is the latest expression of what some commentators have called an ‘authoritarian turn’ in  Eastern Europe.   The leader of Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski is a xenophobic nationalist and a great admirer of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, a politician cut from similar cloth.  In […] Read more »

As polls show an increasing majority of popular support for the Junior Doctors, Left Unity sends solidarity greetings to the strikers and lays the blame for the crisis firmly at the door of the government and the obstructive role played by the Health Secretary. Left Unity Principal Speaker Felicity Dowling said: ‘The Junior Doctors represent […] Read more »