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RT News reports on Left Unity’s founding conference
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Left Unity: Cuddling up for warmth . . . or striking out in a new direction?
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 »
How I learned to stop worrying and love Left Unity
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 »
Impressions of Left Unity Founding Conference
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 »
Left Unity Founding Conference – report from Micheline Mason
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 »
The Pointless Guide to Political Literacy
As Left Unity nears our formal Lift-Off, John Tummon says we need to take full account of the nature of political literacy in 21st century Britain. As a regular viewer of the BBC-1 Quiz ‘Pointless’, which assesses contestants by how obscure their knowledge is in comparison to 100 people given the same questions […] Read more »
Building the Radical Counter Consensus Narrative.
John Penney from Crewe Left Unity examines building a radical counter narrativeAcross the mass media a ”big lie” message is currently being pumped out, ie, that the Tory/Lib Dem economic strategy is working and the recent upturn in the UK GDP figures shows the UK is “on the road to recovery”. As evidence of this […] Read more »
Die Linke: Courtship with an eye on 2017
The latest developments in German politics should serve as a reality check for the ‘broad party’ advocates in this country, argues Ben Lewis For all the talk of the recent German elections being the most boring in memory, having been met with huge levels of apathy and indifference on the part of the population, the […] Read more »
Left Unity Founding Conference documents (part two)
CONFERENCE BOOKLET SECTION 4 Aims: 4. Section 2 of constitution moved from Internal Democracy Commission. The aims of Left Unity are: a) to unite the diverse strands of radical and socialist politics in the UK including worker’s organisations and trade unions; ordinary people, grass root organisations and co-operatives rooted in our neighbourhoods and communities; individuals […] Read more »
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