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Fred Leplat, one of the signatories of the appeal for the 22 June People’s Assembly, appeals to all Left Unity supporters to mobilise for the demonstration in just two weeks. Left Unity supporters should meet up at the Hilton end of Liverpool Road where the march will be assembling. Trade-unions, the anti-cuts campaigns, the peace […] Read more »

Did austerity lead to recovery? No, GDP was increased by government spending, says economist Michael Burke  The government and its supporters have been quick to claim that the most recent GDP data have vindicated its austerity policy. George Osborne says the argument in favour of austerity has been won and some more excitable commentators have even talked of a boom. […] Read more »

  The following article was written by Matt Hale of Sheffield Left Unity with the intention of initiating a debate among Left Unity supporters regards our attitude towards the union-Labour link. News that the GMB union is to slash the affiliation fees it gives to the Labour Party from £1.2million to £150,000 and disaffiliate 50,000 […] Read more »

With the traditional Labour-trade union relationship under strain and increasing disenchantment with Ed Miliband’s brand of socialism, is there space for a new workers’ party? asks The Guardian’s John Harris Ever since the general election of 2010, British politics has been in a very curious state of flux. Public mistrust in politicians runs rampant. After […] Read more »

      Reviewed by Dave Kellaway from Hackney Left Unity Towards the end of the film the main character, Jep Gambardella, looks up at the balcony to his neighbour who is being carted off by the fraud police. The crooked businessman (all references to Berlusconi entirely intended) holds up his handcuffed hands and says […] Read more »

by Will Skyrme As Labour is in decline there is a chance for a new socialist party to establish itself, but can it avoid the same mistakes that compromised their predecessors?   In November a new political party called Left Unity will be born. This project has sprung from two principal sources in the landscape […] Read more »

Statement from the NASUWT and NUT unions. The two largest teacher unions, the NASUWT and the NUT, representing nine out of ten teachers, are today confirming the next phase of their jointly coordinated campaign to Protect Teachers and Defend Education. Following the continued refusal of the Secretary of State to genuinely engage with the NUT […] Read more »

Over recent weeks there have been two contributions on the Left Unity website – from Soraya Lawrence and from Kat Burdon-Manley – which have focused on questions of how Left Unity (and the labour movement more generally) should relate to questions of women’s rights. These are of course issues which Left Unity as a whole, […] Read more »

An article by Salman Shaheen in this week’s New Statesman Undominated by a central charismatic figure, and uncontrolled by a single far-left group, Left Unity is a movement that is being built from the bottom up. By Salman Shaheen Published 03 September 2013 12:01   “There is a spectre haunting Britain,” Ken Loach warned a […] Read more »

This Autumn will see a major conference in London take place on the issue of Ireland, reports Jayne Fisher. The conference on 19 October is hosted by Sinn Fein in order to provoke some serious discussion around the issue, ‘Towards a New Ireland’, looking at the future relationship between Britain and Ireland. It is something […] Read more »