Q&A with the Guardian
Yesterday I joined Ken Loach and Sharon McCourt in a live Q&A with readers on the Guardian website. To paraphrase Lil Chris, check it out.
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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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Recapturing the spirit of ’45 for the 99%
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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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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Appearance on RT News: Left Unity founding conference
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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Appearance on DR: Why we need a new party of the left
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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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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