Differences within Left Unity, the ruling faction of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), have prompted the Socialist Party to launch a faction within that faction, the Broad Left Network. At the same time, the PCS Rank and File Network is being launched. This raises the question of how best to organise in the unions – rank and file or broad left?
Editorial, Workers Power No. 381, February 2015 It is a total diversion to call for a vote for capitalist parties
By KD Tait Left Unity’s Policy Conference on 15-16 November in London saw members pass a series of policy documents
By Andy Yorke Around two hundred members of Left Unity (LU) gathered in Manchester for the first policy conference of
By KD Tait On 30 November, a new political organisation was founded; one which will champion a radical alternative to
The Left Party Platform in Left Unity has called a public meeting on 17 October “to present the case for
Draft action programme proposed for Left Unity’s founding conference.
At its meeting in June, the National Coordinating Group of Left Unity decided that platforms, with a minimum of ten
We have drafted a third ‘platform’ to extend the debate within Left Unity. Having read the two platforms currently circulating
Five weeks after Left Unity’s first national conference around 40 delegates attended its first National Coordinating Group (NCG) meeting in
By Paul Silson, Wakefield Left Unity This month Ed Miliband announced that he would follow the Con-Dem coalition’s lead
By Richard Brenner IT’S ONE week since the first national meeting of Left Unity, and after reading some of the
Six people attended the first meeting of Wakefield Left Unity on Thursday 9 May. There were people from trade unions,
The crisis in the Socialist Workers Party has implications for the entire left. Allegations of rape against a leading member
23 people came to the launch meeting of Left Unity in Leeds this Wednesday. Everyone contributed and collectively we came
The response to Ken Loach’s Appeal “to discuss the formation of a new political party of the Left to bring
Get involved in building a united, campaigning, democratic and socialist party A surge of support for a new left party
This article was published shortly before the announcement of resignations after conference. Nevertheless the article addresses issues relevant for all
On 16 February Leeds had its second Anti-Cuts Convention, a successful event that serves as a modest demonstration of the
The great recession has tested working class parties to the limit. Almost every social democratic and labour party has repositioned
