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by Matt Carr In every era and in every society, there are those who would like to do to the left what the Chilean army once did to Victor Jara, or what the Freikorps did to Karl Liebnecht and Rosa Luxemburg.  It used to be common in Greece for Golden Dawn militants to taunt leftist anti-fascists by […] Read more »

By acclaimed poet Warsan Shire ‘no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your neighbors running faster than you breath bloody in their throats the boy you went to school with who kissed you dizzy behind […] Read more »

Stuart King from South London Left Unity reports Around two thousand tenants and housing activists marched on Saturday 30 January against the Tories’ Housing Bill. Called by Lambeth Unite Community branch, Lambeth Housing Activists and various other groups, Unite members and housing activists had distributed thousands of leaflets around council housing estates in Lambeth explaining […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling explains why Left Unity joins a chorus of condemnation over the hijacking of democracy in Haiti Again, this week the democratic rights of Haitians to free elections are being abused. Yet the spirit of struggle shines on. Haiti saw a huge step in human history with the successful slave rebellion led by Toussaint […] Read more »

Left Unity Principal Speaker Felicity Dowling poses solutions to the refugee crisis. More than a million migrants have come to Europe. But 742.5 million people live in the European Union so this is little more than a tenth of 1% of the EU population. Far smaller countries host far bigger refugee populations. Lebanon with just […] Read more »

Those in the labour movement that argue we need to replace Trident to retain jobs and skills need to think again, argues Kate Hudson For too long the Labour leadership used the jobs argument as cover for its pro-nuclear position, attempting to drive a wedge between the peace and labour movements on this fundamental issue. […] Read more »

Doug Thorpe of Haringey Left Unity writes. Read more »

Sarah Parker from Haringey Left Unity analyses recent developments in Turkish politics The situation in Turkey is changing quickly, but to see where things are now, it is useful to look back at the events of the last seven months. On 7 June 2015 the broad left-wing and pro-Kurdish HDP achieved over 13% of the […] Read more »

“Left Unity congratulates Podemos on its electoral success, breaking the post-Franco two-party system in the interests of the people” Dave Kellaway from Hackney Left Unity reports on the election Si se puede! Yes we can. Podemos was the big story of Sunday’s general elections in the Spanish state. They were the main force breaking a […] Read more »

  A new citizens’ initiative has been launched to fight for the effective restoration of collective bargaining in Greece. The text is a solidarity call to all the peoples of Europe. “Our aim is to stop the Institutions’ coup that does not allow the restoration of collective bargaining. At the same time we contribute to […] Read more »