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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On my way to work on Monday I was curious to see a small group of anti-fracking protesters superglued to the entrance of Bell Pottinger, the PR firm used by energy company Cuadrilla. The irony is, better PR is exactly what anti-fracking activists need. The protesters had brought with them signs bearing the slogan “fracking
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This article was originally written for Left Foot Forward. Tonight I will be attending a meeting of Kate Hudson and Andrew Burgin’s new Left Unity project, which will debate the question: why is there no party to the left of Labour? In the traditional sense, they have a point. The two major projects of the
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My editorial from the February issue of International Tax Review “We all want to change the world”, John Lennon once sang. For environmentalists, carbon taxes and emissions trading systems have long been a key tool in changing the world for the better. With the polar ice caps and life-giving Andean glaciers melting, African crops failing
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