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Chavs author, Independent writer and Labour activist Owen Jones talked to Salman Shaheen about the People’s Assembly and the prospects for resistance to austerity If the People’s Assembly could be summarised in a word, it would be optimism. From the opening speeches it crackled, infusing enthused activists with the idea that austerity – a failure […] Read more »

Ken Loach addressed a packed meeting at the People’s Assembly on June 22nd. The article Ken refers to in his speech can be found here and here The film of Ken was produced by Percivale Productions which is making a film about Left Unity and the process of founding a new party of the Left. Read more »

The movement is battlefield, highlighting all the contradictions of Brazilian society. For more than a week Brazilian workers have taken to the streets. Yesterday, the country witnessed its biggest demonstrations since the fall of the dictatorship. But the situation on the ground has confounded many international commentators. Interviewing for Jacobin, Mark Bergfeld sheds light on new developments with […] Read more »

The national launch of the People’s Assembly against Austerity is a very welcome development, says economist Michael Burke. It brings together a number of the largest unions, anti-cuts group and political forces both inside and outside the Labour Party in opposition to austerity policies. Many will have been drawn into active opposition to government policies because […] Read more »

With the Tour de France starting on 29 June Mark Perryman argues for a two wheels good politics ”Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.” HG Wells The most infamous quote on cycling from modern British politics remains hard right Thatcherite Norman […] Read more »

Many of you may well attempt to keep up with events abroad, says freelance journalist Roland Wood. It might be because of family, friends and, for many socialists, a desire to express and give international solidarity. Yet it can be surprising, to some of us at least, how little is often known about how, and […] Read more »

Merry Cross shares an excellent piece of advice about how to challenge domineering behaviour in others – or address it in yourself. As a white disabled woman, I am already hugely bothered by the fact that too many thoroughly good people who joined Left Unity are thinking of leaving, because of the behaviour of white […] Read more »

  Join Left Unity at the People’s Assembly This Saturday’s People’s Assembly will be the largest gathering of the left that this country has seen for decades. Thousands of anti-cuts activists, trades unionists and campaigners struggling to defend the welfare state will meet at Westminster Central Hall in London. They will be planning a united […] Read more »

As the mainstream media remains quiet, the state violence in Turkey since the Gezi Park occupation is escalating. Kerem Nisancioglu sent this report from Istanbul on Saturday 15 June. Istanbul has been turned into a war zone. People have defiantly stood up to the brutality of state repression, seeking to reclaim Taksim Square and Gezi […] Read more »

Lewes Left Unity have held their first meet-up, Mark Perryman reports Last Thursday, signatories to Ken Loach’s Left Unity Appeal in the East Sussex town of Lewes, met up for the first time. We opted for abandoning the formalities of traditional Left meetings and instead we gathered in an artists’ cafe, sat on sofas and […] Read more »