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Letter in the Guardian: The diminishing influence of the left in the Labour party

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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Labour must watch its left flank in months to come

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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Appearance on BBC Daily Politics: Andrew Neil interviews me about Left Unity

  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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Labour has betrayed its supporters by voting for the welfare cap

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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Appearance on RT Going Underground: People power party

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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Ken Loach discusses his hopes for Left Unity

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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