Party & Programme
End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Managing a debt colony
08 Oct 2015
Having ‘taken the power’, writes Eddie Ford, Syriza is now an agent of the institutions
If Labour wins in 2020
08 Oct 2015
There are many lessons to be drawn from the experience of revolutionary Russia and contemporary Britain. Chris Knight looks back at what he wrote in 1969
Join fight to transform Labour
08 Oct 2015
Yassamine Mather points to a key decision facing next month’s Left Unity conference
Action requires organisation
17 Sep 2015
Counterposing activism to Labour Party work is a mug’s game, argues Paul Demarty
Politics without the personal is non-politics
10 Sep 2015
Censuring the ‘bullying’ Weekly Worker for reporting events in Leeds is not what LU’s executive should be up to, says Micky Coulter
New foundations, new orientation
10 Sep 2015
Communist Platform has drafted the following motions, together with our code of conduct, disputes rules and equality policy. Comrades are urged to secure Left Unity branch support for them and our alternative constitution
Going into survival mode
10 Sep 2015
The weekend’s national council meeting failed to respond to the Corbyn challenge. Sarah McDonald reports
New generation of debate
03 Sep 2015
Last week Left Unity’s youth caucus has held its first day school. Daniel Harvey reports
Doing things differently or same old?
03 Sep 2015
Mike Macnair outlines the Communist Platform’s opposition to both word limits for motions and to a branch ballot to determine which should be prioritised at conference
A constitution fit for purpose
13 Aug 2015
The Communist Platform has agreed to submit an alternative constitution for Left Unity at the November 21-22 national conference, when a whole day has been put aside to discuss the question. The current constitution, widely regarded as being unfit for purpose, stretches to 6,000 words and the CP is proposing it should be replaced by this much shorter and more concise document
One shameful U-turn after another
13 Aug 2015
In the name of the ‘next stage of the revolution’, reports Yassamine Mather, the SWP and its co-thinkers are once again backing the Muslim Brotherhood
Socialism from below: a delusion
13 Aug 2015
We need to go far beyond slogans, urges Mike Macnair
Youth and students conference
13 Aug 2015
Callum Williamson reports on the progress of the Left Unity Youth and Student Caucus
Prioritise principle
06 Aug 2015
National council member Sarah McDonald points to two major problems concerning the November conference
No left turn
06 Aug 2015
Those who think the surrender of Alexis Tsipras will push Syriza further to the left are deluding themselves, says Daniel Harvey