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Left Unity: Let’s go all the way
Cat Rylance and Chris Strafford reflect upon the debates on radical unity today taking place in the Anticapitalist Initiative For decades the left, in Britain, has had no party it could unite under. We are stuck on the margins, with [...]
Left Unity: A chaotic yet positive start
On Saturday 11 May, over 100 people attended the first meeting of Left Unity in central London. Delegates and volunteers came from across the country, representing dozens of groups big and small. Participants ranged from those in left organisations, political [...]
Towards Revolutionary Unity
In the first part of this reflection on Left Unity and the revolutionary left in the UK, Ishan Cader discusses the power of corporate and financial intermediaries as a new challenge to anticapitalist politics. The next part will focus on [...]
The Crisis of European Centre-Left Parties
Aaron Peters and James Butler discuss the crisis of centre-left parties in Europe and the end of the ‘promise of social democracy’ with the depth and scale of the capitalist crisis, as the material basis for the traditional programme in [...]
‘What should radical political organisations look like today?’ at Occupy Sussex
Maia Pal reports back on a meeting on radical activism and organisation, held in Brighton at the Sussex Occupation. Below, Luke Cooper replies to the debate. On Wednesday 6 March, activists put together a forum entitled ‘What should radical political [...]
Videos: What should radical political org look like today?
Videos of the initial contributions to open forum ‘What should radical political organisation look like today?’ held in London on the 6 March 2013.
A new culture and a new approach – the type of organisation we need
The left needs to think differently, writes Simon Hardy
Videos: Socialist Organisation and Democracy (Manchester)
On Saturday 9 February the Anticapitalist Initiative organised a joint meeting with Socialist Resistance and Independent Socialist Network to discuss what kind of organisation we need to build and the mistakes we must avoid. Below are the videos: Cat Rylance [...]