Left Unity

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Left Unity
Party leader Sharon McCourt ,
Nick Jones ,
Joseph Healy
Secretary General Felicity Dowling
founding November 30, 2013
Headquarters London , UK
United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Alignment Socialism
Anti-Capitalism
Green Politics
Feminism
Anti-Racism
Pro-European Politics
Colours) Red green black


Parliament seats no
Number of members 2000 (as of 2014)
European party European left
Website leftunity.org

Left Unity (German: Linke Einheit) is a left-wing party in the United Kingdom that was founded in 2013 by social activist and film director Ken Loach . Loach justified the decision to found the party with what he saw as the lack of demarcation between the Labor Party and the conservative government's austerity measures.

politics

Left Unity describes itself as an anti-capitalist party , which firmly rejects any form of austerity policy “which leads the mass of the working people, the old, the young and the sick to support a systemic crisis of capitalism”. Party founder Ken Loach named the goal of building a successful political force on the left of the Labor Party . He criticized existing left parties such as the Green Party of England and Wales or Plaid Cymru as too social democratic .

As a socialist party , Left Unity advocates the nationalization of all public goods, schools and hospitals. Left Unity aims to achieve full employment by reducing working hours and spending more on social housing and infrastructure . She advocates LGBT rights and advocates gender parity .

Further demands are the increase of the legal minimum wage , the abolition of all immigration controls as well as the phasing out of fossil fuels

Attitude to the European Union

Although Left Unity has in the past sharply criticized the European Union and even described it in 2015 as a “reactionary, non-reformable institution against the working class”, the party campaigned for the United Kingdom to remain in the UK in the course of the EU membership referendum in 2016 Kingdom in the EU. This was justified by the fact that a vote to leave the European Union would only play into the hands of xenophobic forces such as UKIP or the right wing of the Tories .

Left Unity is open to a second referendum and supported the now defunct People's Vote campaign, which advocated a vote on the final Brexit agreement .

elections

At the general election in 2015 Left Unity came with ten candidates failed to move into the House but clearly in all constituencies. In Vauxhall there were only 188 votes for the party, which corresponds to a share of the vote of 0.4 percent.

Left Unity called for the election of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labor Party in the 2017 general election and the 2019 general election .

Individual evidence

  1. http://leftunity.org/left-unity-election-results-2/
  2. http://leftunity.org/left-unity-election-results-2/
  3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29799731
  4. http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/left_unity_a_report_from_the_founding_conference
  5. http://leftunity.org/founding-conference-decisions-1/
  6. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/salman-shaheen/ken-loach-left-unity_b_4302871.html
  7. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32128790
  8. http://leftunity.org/economics-policy/
  9. http://leftunity.org/founding-conference-decisions-1/
  10. http://socialistresistance.org/5678/left-unity-launched
  11. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32128790
  12. http://www.workerspower.co.uk/2014/04/report-of-left-unity-policy-conference-29-march/
  13. http://leftunity.org/manifesto-2015-environment/
  14. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/07/09/left-j09.html
  15. http://leftunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Conference-motions-with-results.doc
  16. http://leftunity.org/join-us-for-the-peoples-vote-march-make-the-case-for-another-europe/
  17. https://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=139&RPID=27029631
  18. http://leftunity.org/general-election-left-unity-calls-for-a-labour-victory/
  19. http://leftunity.org/welcome-to-the-fight-of-our-lives/