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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 »

Watch RT News report on the Founding Conference: on Youtube: RT News reports on Left Unity’s founding conference Read more »

Don Milligan looks at founding conference LEFT UNITY, the new political party of socialists to the left of Labour. was formed on Saturday at the Royal National Hotel in Woburn Place, Bloomsbury. A fine big room was booked and just under five hundred of us filed in to sit row upon row on ballroom chairs […] Read more »

  Impressions of founding conference by Stuart Watkins of the Leamington Spa branch When I first heard about Left Unity, I signed up immediately, but was sceptical and nervous. Whose stitch-up was this? Behind the façade of starting a national conversation about the kind of party we need, who was preparing the answers for us, […] Read more »

Felicity Dowling from Liverpool Left Unity gives some initial thoughts about the party’s founding conference It took till the small hours to drive home from Conference and I am still tired so apologies if this is short and sweet. Even while we met in Conference further horrors from the Tories came to light. By profession […] Read more »

A report from the founding conference of our new party, Left Unity, by Micheline Mason Just look at the energy in this photograph of our Founding Conference. I came away feeling something momentous had happened and very pleased to have been part of it. Maybe the world won’t realise just how important a move we […] Read more »