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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 »

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 »