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Dave Kellaway reports on a recent conference he attended as a contributor and Left Unity supporter. Seven rather austere-looking middle aged men looked down on us as we discussed the way the Internet was raising new issues for the left. They were the former presidents of the transport union in Luxembourg. These men were brought […] Read more »

Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University and long time left activist. This is a sequel to To the crucible: An Irish Engagement with the Greek Crisis and the Greek Left published on the 21st of January, 2013. The Dominant Narrative “Things have gone very quiet in Greece, haven’t they?” So many people said […] Read more »

A letter from Edward Snowden’s father and his lawyer, Bruce Fein, to President Obama: Bruce Fein & Associates, Inc. 722 12th Street, N.W., 4th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005 Phone: 703-963-4968 July 26, 2013 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution […] Read more »

Micheline Mason is one of the Left Unity organiserd for Wandsworth. Here is her petition against the privatisation of education. Dear All, It was good to see you at the National Coordinating group meeting on Saturday. Hard work, but building the foundations of new houses is always worth the effort. Here is the link to […] Read more »

Pedro Filipe Soares is a Left Bloc MP in the Portuguese parliament. Soares attend the first congress of the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) from July 10-14. Syriza, a coalition of left groups, decided to become a new political party after it came close to winning elections on an anti-austerity platform last year. The […] Read more »

A crisis is an objective fact to which there can essentially be only two responses, says economist Michael Burke. The cause can be identified and addressed, or some other explanation can be advanced which effectively shifts the blame for the crisis elsewhere. The government and the supporters of austerity are increasingly bent on the second […] Read more »

A supporter of the Morning Star/CPB, under the pseudonym ‘Michael Ford’, has written the most substantial rebuttal of the proposal to found a new Left Party – “Left Unity’s Modest Flutter”, posted on the LU site. Here Phil Hearse examines Ford’s arguments. Weighing in at more than 9000 words Ford’s article assesses almost every conceivable […] Read more »

On 29th June Sheffield Left Unity held a successful launch event in central Sheffield. Patrick Black, a Sheffield LU member, reports on the half-day event, which was attended by 45 people.  The Launch was opened with a heartfelt speech by Bianca Todd (Left Unity National Coordinating Group and Northampton LU). Bianca spoke with great conviction […] Read more »

Mark Perryman explores what Andy Murray and the Lions tell us about sport’s impact on national identity “ The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people” Eric Hobsbawm Eric Hobsbawm’s acute observation concerning the impact of sport on national identity has been carted out so often that it […] Read more »

I learned a lot in our last Left Unity meeting in Wandsworth, reports Micheline Mason. I learned about the Workers’ Party of Ireland from Paul; I learned about growing up under a military dictatorship in Ethiopia from Gelila, and from her I also learned how some Christians think about the term ‘left’ (i.e. on the […] Read more »