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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 »

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 »