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Mark Perryman provides a beach reading round up for those who take their politics on holiday with them. The silly season? For the Westminster bubble it would be hard to identify a month in the year when ‘silly’ isn’t too soft an epithet to describe what most MPs get up to, supposedly on our behalf. […] Read more »

“This summer will be remembered for Labour‘s final betrayal of the working-class people it was founded to represent. Not content with signing up to Conservative austerity measures that are dragging Britain’s most vulnerable people deeper into poverty, Ed Miliband has turned his back on the union members who supported his leadership bid. Austerity has not […] Read more »

Mike Wayne is a founding member of Left Unity and a member of the Southwark group. This is his contribution to thinking about the principles that might guide Left Unity policy making and practice. The document comes in two parts. An opening explanatory preamble and then a list of 21 principles which identify some of […] Read more »

At its recent meeting in London, Left Unity’s National Coordinating Group (NCG) has agreed the rates for Founding Membership and also the details of our Founding Conference in November. You have to sign up for Founding Membership in order to participate in the Founding Conference. You can sign up for both on our website Founding […] Read more »

Stathis Kouvelakis reflects on the founding congress of Syriza 1. The congress of Syriza took place in a context of growing political instability following the closure of the public radio and television broadcaster (ERT) by the government of Antonis Samaras and the departure from the government of one of its three components (the party of […] Read more »

  Last month Syriza, a coalition of radical left parties in Greece, formed itself into a unitary party and held its first congress as such. This is the political resolution from the congress. 1.      The Conference of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) is a continuity and a breakthrough in its course, which started […] Read more »

Andy Smith from Leeds Left Unity gives a report of their latest public meeting Kate Hudson spoke at the second Leeds Left Unity public meeting last Wednesaday. Again there were many new faces with around 28 people in attendance. The discussion section was started off with an appeal from the Leeds Pathology labs strike, where […] Read more »

These minutes, along with all other documentation published by Left Unity, can be downloaded in PDF format from the Documentation section of the website, at http://leftunity.org/documentation Left Unity National Co-ordinating Group Draft minutes of meeting held on 27 July 2013 in London Attendance: Delegates: JS (Barnet); SM (Birmingham LU); BW (Birmingham CATC LU); CP (Brighton LU); […] Read more »

Sharon McCourt from Left Unity’s National Co-ordinating Group reports on the recent meeting between Left Unity and the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, with additional thoughts from Bianca Todd. As agreed by Left Unity’s National Coordinating Group (NCG) in June, four of us went along from Left Unity to meet with delegates from TUSC. Left […] Read more »

Draft statement for consideration from the Reclaim the Net conference organised by the Dei Lenk (Left Party) of Luxembourg with the participation of members or supporters of Parti de Gauche (France), Die Linke (Germany) and Left Unity (Britain). 28th/29th June 2013 Conference supported by the European Left Group in the European Parliament. Introductory note This […] Read more »