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Jon Duveen from Cambridgeshire NUT reports on Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the first day of the NUT  conference Usually the Friday afternoon session of NUT Conference is a sedate affair where we go through installing the new president and some ‘general housekeeping’ issues. However this year it was very different. Conference rose to applaud the […] Read more »

By Sarah Parker and Phil Hearse On March 21 hundreds of thousands of Kurdish people in Diyarbakir, unofficial capital of Turkish Kurdistan, flocked to celebrations of Newroz, the Kurdish New Year. The celebrations this year had a more than usual political angle – not just a celebration of Kurdish identity but a demonstration of opposition […] Read more »

 Walter Baier reports on the Conferences in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Brussels and Athens The neoliberal model has failed. In order to counteract the current destructive tendencies of Europe’s governing elite, various conferences and meetings have been organised by forces of the Left in order to find a common strategy. These events are taking place all […] Read more »

Pete Green looks at the budget Jeremy Corbyn got it right in his response to Osborne’s budget last Wednesday: “This budget has unfairness at its very core, paid for by those who can least afford it” For once this message appears to be cutting through the media hype and reaching the majority of voters who […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling, Left Unity principal speaker, opens a debate on the forthcoming referendum The referendum on membership of the European Union is making many people think very seriously, not only about this political decision but also of its after effects. Many, especially women, are undecided. Following the party line will not work as political parties […] Read more »

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 »