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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Salman Shaheen speaks to Ken Loach about the director’s hopes for founding a new party to the left of Labour, and what it can learn from new media and the social movements that have built up around it. Ken Loach has just returned from Ireland where he has been shooting Jimmy’s Hall, a film following
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When Russell Brand called for revolution last month it struck a chord with hundreds of thousands of British people. Not simply because a long-haired dandy known for his tight leather trousers and desire to defile the granddaughter of Manuel from Fawlty Towers surprised us with his eloquence and political passion to trounce a tired Jeremy
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Austerity has extracted the last vestiges of “compassion” from conservatism, distilling what remains into policies so poisonously unfair they have led people unable to cope with the bedroom tax to suicide and self-harm, while thousands more are forced to choose between heating and eating. For those who want to see a market-driven economy with a
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I have a letter in the Evening Standard responding to the policies Labour finally announced at its conference this week and arguing that it must go further if it really wants to address the plight of hard-up people.
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Long before I’d ever been on an anti-war march or read of book of Marx, the first spark of left wing thought emerged in my brain as I was growing up listening to The Levellers. It was this Brighton-based folk-punk outfit that provided the voice of a generation opposed to repressive Tory rule, sticking two
Andrew Sparrow from the Guardian quoted my New Statesman article yesterday, picking up on a growing movement behind a new party of the left. Interestingly, he drew parallels between this trend and Len McLuskey giving his strongest hint yet that he is questioning Unite’s link with Labour. Sparrow writes: In the light of Shaheen’s article
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“There is a spectre haunting Britain,” Ken Loach warned a packed conference hall at the first national meeting of a political movement in its genesis. “It’s called Nigel Farage.” There will be few more haunted by the spectre of Farage’s UKIP than David Cameron as he heads into conference season. With the European Parliament elections
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Josiah Mortimer from the Bright Green blog interviewed me on the potential for electoral collaboration between Left Unity and the Green Party. As a former member of the Greens who is now in Left Unity, I think this is essential and something I am very keen to see happen. You can read the full interview
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