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  ‘Build a Bonfire! Build a Bonfire! Stick the Tories on the top. Put the Lib Dems in the middle and burn the bloody lot!’ On 5 November I made my way to the advertised People’s Assembly demonstration on Westminster Bridge. It was a traditional type of protest and not a particularly well-attended event. The highlight was the […] Read more »

Looking out across the grey expanse of middle ground politics Mark Perryman of Philosophy Football finds some books to provide dreams of a better tomorrow. As the almost instantly forgettable party conference season disappears over the horizon the Westminster bubble political landscape would be hard pushed to inspire anybody much at all. For hope of […] Read more »

Salman Shaheen brings the debate about Left Unity to the Huffington Post. Please contribute to the debate on the original post at that site. The storm has blown away the last of the summer. Winter is on its way. And for Britain’s poorest families, forced by a soaring cost of living and the government’s austerity […] Read more »

Saturday 16 November assemble 10.30am Belmont Park, Exeter 11am March through town 12 noon Rally at Bedford Square The English Defence League (EDL) has announced its intention to hold a national March and Rally in Exeter on Saturday 16th November. The EDL is a violent, racist group riddled with fascists, dedicated to promoting hatred and […] Read more »

Supporters of ‘austerity’ would have a very strong argument if there really were no money left, says economist Michael Burke. In that case, opponents of current policy would be left arguing only for a fairer implementation of those policies, or that perhaps they could be implemented more slowly. This is not the case. Firms in […] Read more »

  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 »