Posts Tagged ‘Left Unity’
LEFT UNITY – Internal Strife and ‘Feminist’ Witchhunt
Personal Politics – the Divorce from Reality Left Unity – the group set up with such hope and optimism – has fallen foul to the same curse that has historically plagued the socialist and far-left of British politics – Sectarianism. The belief that one’s own petty concerns are of more importance than the wider movement…
Read MoreLabour Heads for Electoral Disaster
Those Who Want to Replace Miliband Miss the Point – It’s the Strategy that Needs Changing That speech New Labour MPs Panic as their Seats Are in Danger – But None Advocate a Change in Strategy When I posted an article in July this year saying that there was no way Miliband could win the…
Read MoreWhy I resigned from Left Unity
Feminists Brook no Debate on ‘Safe Spaces’ – Manchester Branch suspensions I resigned from Left Unity nearly a month ago. Set up in a blaze of publicity, it has fallen victim to identity politics and navel gazing. It reports that it has 2,000 members. If so they make next to no impact. There is no…
Read MoreOpen Letter to Left Unity
An Organisation that is Afraid to Campaign Left Unity was formed last year with the many of the members coming from the fall-out in the SWP over Martin Thomas and the question of rape/sexual harrassment. Others are relatively new to politics and of course there are those who are members of existing left groups –…
Read MoreLeft Unity Conference
A banner headline which didn’t match the strap lines Another Missed Opportunity as feminists and reformists link-up Left Unity is the brainchild and founding father, the distinguished socialist film maker Ken Loach who has produced more radical and socialist films that I can remember. Ken Loach – Left Unity’s guiding light According to its own…
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