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  Alan Thornett The recent report the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is another sharp wake up call as to the potentially catastrophic dangers posed by global warming. The report is the fifth since the IPCC was founded in 1988, and it focuses primarily on the science of climate change. The report has the […] Read more »

Green Left activist Sean Thompson says ecosocialists should leave the rightward-moving Green Party, and join the effort to build a new political party of the left in Britain.Sean Thompson is a founding member of Green Left, which describes itself as a an ecosocialist, anti-capitalist current within the Green Party of England and Wales. Comrades, An […] Read more »

Veronica Kenning is a terminally ill Birmingham tenant threatened with eviction because of the Bedroom Tax. Watch this and be angry. (film produced by supporters of Left Unity in Staffs) Read more »

Mark Perryman reviews Stuart Hall and Alan O’Shea’s unpicking of how opinions are made and unmade As the Party Conference season draws to a close the disconnect between the politics of the Westminster bubble and the rest of us couldn’t be more obvious. Persons in suits, mostly men, addressing other persons in suits, mostly men, […] Read more »

Dave Kellaway from  Hackney Left Unity writes about recent developments in Italian politics.  Former prime minister Berlusconi has been twice convicted of fraud by the highest court in the land. He has called his plight the result of a coup d’etat by a left-dominated judiciary and has organised the collective pre-resignation of all his MPs […] Read more »

Murray Smith comments on the recent German elections and what they mean for Die Linke. Once the immediate euphoria – for those that way inclined – had dissipated, it very quickly became apparent that the victory of Angela Merkel and the CDU in the German elections, obtained very largely at the expense of the CDU’s […] Read more »

Sissy Velissariou reports on the devastating attacks being inflicted on higher education in Greece. For at least the past four years the public and democratic university has been systematically undermined by the neoliberal governments through its institutional liquidation, that has destroyed the collective and democratically elected academic bodies, predominantly by its economic strangulation. At the […] Read more »

When the left alternative goes unvoiced, the real choices unposed, democracy is drained of content, writes Mike Marqusee. That’s why we need a new party of the left. Read more »

The first time that I actively followed the German elections was in 1998, says Mark Bergfeld. I was eleven years old. I was glued to the television following the debates and speeches by politicians. One politician struck me particularly: Gregor Gysi. My eleven-year old self went back to school the following day and proudly proclaimed […] Read more »

Electoral revolts have rocked Europe for the last two-and-a-half years, says Mark Bergfeld. Since the outbreak of the debt crisis, 17 national governments in the European Union have collapsed or been voted out of power – 12 were members of the Eurozone. The German elections taking place in a week’s time are a different game. […] Read more »