The conventional narrative that framed New Labour’s dominance over the party and subsequent election victories went that traditionally left-wing ideas are no longer popular and that votes had to be attracted from the centre and the right. Thus the Labour Party marched ever rightwards, confident in the assumption that its working class and left-wing base […]
I have a letter in today’s Guardian: Ken Loach’s article (Labour is not the solution, 28 March) has received a fantastic response – 250 people joined Left Unity over the weekend, when we held our first national conference. But Labour supporters would rather see us pack up our things and go home. They tell us
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Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite, has given the strongest indication yet that his union may consider disaffiliating from Labour. At this stage, it’s not much more than a shot across Miliband’s bow as McCluskey attempts to pull Labour’s lax policymaking leftwards. Unite is highly unlikely to rock the boat before the next election. But
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Left Unity is the hottest thing on the left right now. In a few short months, it has attracted more than 1,800 members. With a new member joining every 10 minutes over the weekend, the party is going from strength to strength. On Saturday, Left Unity held its first national conference in Manchester. After a
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Left Unity has been making headlines in the mainstream media lately. Over 200 people joined on Friday after Ken Loach wrote an article about it for the Guardian and Russell Brand tweeted it. Amid the media buzz, I was interviewed by Andrew Neil on the Daily Politics, talking about how Labour’s support for the
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The Tory austerity drive – bound up as it is in the barefaced lie that Britain was brought low in 2008 by benefit scroungers and not reckless bankers – was never about fixing the economy, it is about shrinking the state. As such, it was hardly surprising to see Cameron’s Etonian class warriors lining up
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Thousands lined the streets to pay tribute to the late, great Bob Crow on Monday. With even his opponents gushing praise for a trade union leader who fought hard for his members, was resolute in his principles and above all brilliant at his job, it’s hard to imagine that scarcely more than a month ago
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I was back on RT on Saturday, this time talking to Afshin Rattansi for their UK political talk show, Going Underground. Ten minutes to chat about the formation of Left Unity and why we need a new political party to provide a voice for working class and vulnerable people in Britain, long since abandoned by
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RT News came along to cover Left Unity’s founding conference on November 30 and ran an excellent report featuring interviews with Ken Loach and myself.
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I was interviewed on the Danish state radio station, DR, on why we’re setting up a new party of the left. Most of it, naturally, is in Danish. Glad to see Left Unity is getting attention from outside of Britain. It fits very much with the trend of rising parties of the united left around
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