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The corruption scandal surrounding Turkey’s AKP government and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan have developed into a full-fledged regime crisis, reports Mark Bergfeld. When the Gezi protests swept the Turkish state in June 2013 peoples from all ethnic, religious and political background articulated themselves and their demands through the social movement in an unprecedented way. Unfortunately […] Read more »

  Dave Kellaway reports on the well-attended film show and discussion organised by Hackney Left Unity on the 18th December “Who guarantees that willingness to work shall suffice to obtain work, that uprightness, industry, thrift and the rest of the virtues recommended by the bourgeoisie, are really his road to happiness? No one.   He knows […] Read more »

Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football provides a guide for books to give the Leftist in your life this Christmas Cheer up, it could be worse? Well, under this hapless government probably not but a bit of seasonal present-giving might at least keep the temptations of miserabilism at bay. 2014 will mark the start of the […] Read more »

The Danish municipal and regional election on 19 November was a historic success for the Red-Green Alliance (RGA) writes Nikolaj Villumsen. Find here a first assessment by the RGA. We are now a nationwide party with representatives in all regions and corners of Denmark. With a raise in votes from the previous election in 2009 […] Read more »

On December 6 2013 the founding congress of the Hungarian Trade Union Confederation took place in Budapest, reports Karoly Gyorgy. Through the integration of the Autonomous Trade Union Confederation (ASZSZ), the National Confederation of Hungarian Trade Unions (MSZOSZ) and the Forum for the Co-operation of Trade Unions (SZEF) the largest interest representation organisation in Hungary […] Read more »

The result of the ballot at our Founding Conference on the name of our new party was as follows. This means we will be “Left Unity” as a new radical force on the left in the UK. We are “Left Unity” a new political force on the left. Result of party name: Left Unity Party […] Read more »

 Mike Wayne argues that with the policy conference for Left Unity looming in March 2014, it is time to start thinking seriously about the centrality of culture for any genuine attempt at large scale social transformation.  Without a move towards democratic participation in culture, the social and economic objectives of a socialist politics that aims […] Read more »

   Sonia Mitralia, Athens We already knew that violence against women is often used as a weapon in times of war to punish, humiliate and dehumanise, but especially to repress and annihilate by all possible means the population to which they belong. This violence has often been seen as a means of domination rather than […] Read more »

  Sam Doherty reports from the occupation of Senate House in central London ‘Cops off Campus’ was the rallying cry of Thursday’s demonstration across London’s Bloomsbury campus. The previous day saw students, inspired by similar occupations across the country, peacefully occupying the management corridor of Senate House, where they were met with a reaction from […] Read more »

‘During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which […] Read more »