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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Either it’s an election year, or Nick Clegg has suddenly discovered some principles. This week, George Osborne announced that there would be another £25 billion in spending cuts after the 2015 general election and around half of that would come from the welfare budget. For Clegg, who must have been given a spine at Christmas,
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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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Eleven EU member states are pushing ahead with a plan to introduce a tiny tax on financial transactions. Four of Europe’s five largest economies are among them. Guess which one is missing? The UK House of Lords EU Subcommittee on Economic and Financial Affairs this week came out railing against the financial transaction tax (FTT),
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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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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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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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There can be few on the progressive side of the political spectrum who have not yet heard of the rapid rise of Left Unity movement. Ken Loach’s appeal to found a new party of the left was greeted enthusiastically by 10,000 people who have since gone on to establish 100 local groups across the country
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Managed to get this letter into the Guardian today, signed by director Ken Loach, Only Fools and Horses actor Roger Lloyd Pack, former Children’s laureate Michael Rosen and a number of other famous writers, academics, activists and musicians supporting Left Unity. This summer will be remembered for Labour‘s final betrayal of the working-class people it
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With the People’s Assembly falling on the day Ed Miliband announced he would be sticking to Conservative spending plans, there was much talk last week of Labour abandoning the working classes. It’s not exactly news. Labour gave up on the working class two decades ago. But now I’m helping to build a new party of
