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		<title>Withdrawal from Left Unity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 09:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communist Platform supporters Jack Conrad and Yassamine Mather proposed the following motion to the Left Unity National Council meeting in Birmingham on February 20. It was overwhelmingly defeated, having received only their votes. On this basis comrades Conrad and Mather announced the dissolution of Communist Platform and our withdrawal from LU. The CPGB, and Communist&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/withdrawal-from-left-unity/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Withdrawal from Left Unity</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Motion on Laurie McCauley</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/motion-on-laurie-mccauley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[for discussion at the LU national council June 14 2015 Laurie McCauley is a member of Left Unity and the Communist Platform. He was suspended by Manchester branch nearly a year ago. Though there have been vague accusations of “persistently disruptive behaviour” the fact of the matter is that he was suspended because he wrote&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/motion-on-laurie-mccauley/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Motion on Laurie McCauley</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wrath of the pure</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/370/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bianca Todd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Socialist Network]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Left Unity members will be aware of the woefully apolitical campaign that is currently being conducted against the party&#8217;s principle speaker, Bianca Todd. As in the case of Manchester LU comrade Laurie McCauley, who has been suspended from the branch for writing a sharply critical report, the witch-hunters in this instance also pose as victims. Instrumentally involved in&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/370/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Wrath of the pure</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Bolsheviks’ success and the ‘revolutionary’ fear of electoralism</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/the-bolsheviks-success-and-the-revolutionary-fear-of-electoralism/</link>
		<comments>http://communistplatform.org.uk/the-bolsheviks-success-and-the-revolutionary-fear-of-electoralism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[LU in elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ContentsEssential keyPolitical actionNotesElements within Left Unity have argued against &#8216;electoralism&#8217;, with the implication that standing in elections necessarily means becoming corrupted by the establishment; LU should instead focus all its energies on bread-and-butter campaigning if it is not to fall into a reformist approach. This economistic attitude to elections and the state is the polar&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/the-bolsheviks-success-and-the-revolutionary-fear-of-electoralism/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">The Bolsheviks’ success and the ‘revolutionary’ fear of electoralism</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency and the right to criticise</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/transparency-and-the-right-to-criticise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 15:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two more articles by ComPlat supporters in recent weeks on the necessity of transparency and open debate to any meaningful and lasting unity; In &#8216;Confidentiality is a bosses’ tool&#8217;, Paul Demarty argues vigorously against the Left Unity Dispute Committee&#8217;s decision to conduct disputes in private: http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1016/confidentiality-is-a-bosses-tool/ &#8216;Bolshevism was not a safe space for opportunism'; Mark&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/transparency-and-the-right-to-criticise/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Transparency and the right to criticise</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nuts, sledgehammers, and &#8216;safe spaces&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/nuts-sledgehammers-and-safe-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 14:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though there are real problems to be tackled in terms of ensuring accessibility and fair treatment for members of oppressed groups, the proposed &#8216;safe spaces&#8217; policy is over-elaborate, non-transparent, and open to abuse. So argues ComPlat supporter Mike Macnair in the article below, in which he also proposes an alternative code of conduct: http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1012/left-unity-safe-spaces-are-not-liberating/]]></description>
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		<title>Salman Shaheen &amp; the right to bear arms</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/salman-shaheen-the-right-to-bear-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://communistplatform.org.uk/salman-shaheen-the-right-to-bear-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 13:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Communist Platform has already enjoyed five minutes of fame, with our motion on the right to bear arms predictably being used by Andrew Neil &#8211; host of the Daily Politics &#8211; as an indication of the &#8216;mad&#8217; politics of those involved in LU during his interview with principal speaker Salman Shaheen. It should be&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/salman-shaheen-the-right-to-bear-arms/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Salman Shaheen &#38; the right to bear arms</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>March LU conference: &#8216;Indecision and irrationality&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/march-lu-conference-indecision-and-irrationality/</link>
		<comments>http://communistplatform.org.uk/march-lu-conference-indecision-and-irrationality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the founding conference last November, the upcoming policy conference of Left Unity has an agenda stuffed to the gills with motions. Combine this with a reluctance to make firm political choices, and you have a recipe for &#8216;Indecision and irrationality&#8217;, argues Mike Macnair in the Weekly Worker: http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1001/indecision-and-irrationality/]]></description>
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