Left wing

  • Enough Is Enough For Same Old Same Old

    What are these rallies for? They seem to be held in theatre halls and behind closed doors, open to those who have got tickets and are therefore clearly already invested in the project. They pack these people in to halls to hear the same old stuff from the same old people. We don’t need to…

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  • Working class stories need to be told

    Simply put; we cannot rely on the establishment to keep our stories alive, we cannot rely on them to keep our history alive, we cannot rely on them to give the working class opportunities and we cannot trust them to authentically depict us.

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  • A Four Point Plan For The Left To Become Relevant And Win Elections

    We have witnessed in the last decade a sea change in our politics, the far rights influence has crashed waves over the political landscape, the SNP parted the red sea and for a brief time socialism shone like a beacon across the land. In the immortal words of Bob Dylan Times They Are A Changin’.…

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  • Helping Hands Help You Stand

    Hello Brothers Hello Sisters Hello Comrades Words with meaning uttered without thought Thoughts without words resembling nought What is a Brother? What is a Sister? What is a Comrade? When we say brother does it have meaning Or do we say it without feeling? When we say sister does it have meaning Or do we

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  • Stand Together

    Stand Together

    On benefits struggling to pay bills We stand with you! Single mother working two jobs We stand with you! Grieving over the austerity kills We stand with you! Victim of the callous cuts We stand with you! Home made cell We stand with you! Freezing to death We stand with you! Empty cupboards We stand

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  • I would like to start by thanking everyone that voted for me in the elections, and I’m looking forward to building a vibrant Left Unity base within the East Midlands with you all. I would also like to congratulate Liz Silver, and I’m looking forward to working with her in representing the East Midlands on

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  • Left Unity a party that was built with internal democracy in mind, with yearly elections a prominent feature of how we hold the party to account. We operate a one member, one vote system, where ideally members are free agents to choose who they want representing them. How turned off I have been then to

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  • Northampton Borough Council has shown complete and utter contempt for the chamber, the position and most importantly the people of Northampton, as they spend their last full meeting before the elections patting themselves on the back and electioneering. They seem to have forgotten the problems facing the administration, and will face up until the time

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  • A campaign recently launched in Northampton called “Kill with Kindness” (yes that is its real name), has the aim of encouraging people not to be kind to homeless people. It declares that homeless people are drunks and drug addicts and by giving them money you are therefore feeding their habits and killing them. It declares

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  • As we know it Is election year and Left Unity will have about as much impact on the election as the bedroom tax on the deficit. Regardless of how much of an impact we are going to have however we need to be having a simple and clear message with which the people can relate

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