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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The storm has blown away the last of the summer. Winter is on its way. And for Britain’s poorest families, forced by a soaring cost of living and the government’s austerity onslaught to choose between heating and eating, it promises to be a winter of discontent. George Osborne may be cheering the country’s return to
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On this day in 1967, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army on the orders of the CIA. Guevara the man was deeply flawed and far from a saint. But to millions, Guevara is not a man, he is an idea epitomising resistance to oppression. The romantic freedom fighter. Nothing encapsulates that notion
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It was an action-packed day for Ed Miliband last Thursday, ripping up every last shred of hope those of us on the left had that he might provide some principled opposition to Tory-led austerity. And it was an action-packed day for me, with appearances on Sky News and LBC Radio criticising Miliband’s welfare reform plans
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When Ken Loach launched an appeal to discuss founding a new party to the left of Labour in March, it sparked a wave of enthusiasm. Within a few weeks, more than 8,000 people signed up and around 100 local groups were established across the country. It isn’t hard to see why. Austerity is devastating Britain.
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On Saturday, a hundred people descended on a London hotel because they wanted to change the world. Like many, I went along to Left Unity’s first national meeting full of hope, but also dread. Because the path to that room was littered with the decaying corpses of a dozen other worthy projects to unite the
We live together or we die alone Read More »
After an exciting, and at times tense, first national meeting of Left Unity, which brought together representatives from many of the local groups around the country, I was elected alongside nine others to serve on the National Coordinating Group with just over 61% of the vote. Having spectacularly failed to be elected as head boy
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Whether you’re turning merrily around a pole or turning the capitalist order upside down, I bid you greetings and send you solidarity this May Day. Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains. Morris dancers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your dignity.
The cause of left unity in the face of an all-out assault on the working class by this Conservative government has never been more necessary nor more urgent. But if Left Unity passes its first hurdle, bringing together the myriad squabbling clans who can sometimes seem to spend as much time attacking each other as
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