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		<title>We need an emergency conference!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motion for February 20 national council Left Unity modelled itself on soft left anti-austerity organisations such as Die Linke, Syriza and Podemos. This went hand in hand with claims that the Labour Party was irreformable, had to all intents and purposes become just another capitalist party, etc. The operative conclusion being that there was a&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/we-need-an-emergency-conference/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">We need an emergency conference!</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Draft motion on LU conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Left Unity’s annual conference is looming (November 21/22, London), as is the deadline for conference motions (September 18 – full details here.) We urge LU comrades to submit Communist Platform’s model motion on the Jeremy Corbyn challenge to their branch. In addition, here is a Communist Platform motion to the NC on the organisation of&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/draft-motion-on-lu-conference/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Draft motion on LU conference</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Corbyn: Model resolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2015 13:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign to elect Jeremy Corbyn as the next leader of the Labour Party has set the political landscape on fire. We don’t have any illusions that the Labour Party can be transformed into a Communist Party or that it can be “reclaimed” (it was never ours to begin with). But it remains an important&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/corbyn-model-resolution/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Corbyn: Model resolution</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Statement on the candidacy of Steve Freeman in Bermondsey</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communist Platform statement 1. Steve Freeman has announced that he is a parliamentary candidates in Bermondsey and Old Southwark for the May 7 general election. He is standing as a Republican Socialist. He is therefore opposing Kingsley Abrams, a candidate jointly backed by the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and Left Unity. Politically this amounts&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/statement-on-the-candidacy-of-steve-freeman-in-bermondsey/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Statement on the candidacy of Steve Freeman in Bermondsey</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Video and report: Syriza&#8217;s victory and the left in Europe</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/video-syrizas-victory-and-the-left-in-europe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheffield Left Unity organised a meeting on the question of &#8220;Syriza&#8217;s victory and the implications for the left in Europe&#8221;. The meeting was addressed by Joana Ramiro, LU national council member and Morning Star journalist. This report of the meeting first appeared in the Weekly Worker: Saturday March 14 saw a healthily attended Left Unity&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/video-syrizas-victory-and-the-left-in-europe/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Video and report: Syriza&#8217;s victory and the left in Europe</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Protest against the rightwing coup in Left Unity!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 12 the national officers of Left Unity issued an unconstitutional ‘Appeal for an alliance against austerity’, which commits LU to &#8220;support any candidate, whether they are from the Greens, the Labour left or a smaller party committed to equality, who states clearly that they will never vote for austerity and whose record leads&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/protest-against-the-rightwing-coup-in-left-unity/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Protest against the rightwing coup in Left Unity!</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Yassamine Mather on Kobanê and IS</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/yassamine-mather-on-kobane-and-isis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2014 15:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who is to blame for the catastrophic situation in Kobanê? In her latest article for the Weekly Worker, &#8216;The IS conundrum&#8217;, Left Unity National Council and Communist Platform member Yassamine Mather finds that the siege raises more question than it answers: http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1029/the-is-conundrum/ This week, comrade Mather also appeared on BBC Persian service to speak on Kobanê and IS. Persian&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/yassamine-mather-on-kobane-and-isis/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Yassamine Mather on Kobanê and IS</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq &amp; Imperialism: Past, Present and Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq &#38; imperialism: past, present and future An open meeting to discuss the situation in Iraq and the region more generally. MPs have voted in favour of new bombings on Iraq. What is the alternative? What lessons can we draw from the past actions of imperialism in the region? All are welcome to come along&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/iraq-imperialism-past-present-and-future/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Iraq &#38; Imperialism: Past, Present and Future</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Left Unity branch report &#8211; Lewisham &amp; Greenwich 2 October</title>
		<link>http://communistplatform.org.uk/left-unity-branch-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2014 15:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our meeting on Thursday, October 2 agreed to hold another one in a week’s time to debate conference motions, so mine on the federal republic wasn’t heard this week. The reason was that a meeting on Ukraine had been arranged. I thought there would be a debate from comrades with opposing views, but those of&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/left-unity-branch-report/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">Left Unity branch report &#8211; Lewisham &#38; Greenwich 2 October</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Steve Wallis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2014 14:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comrade Steve Wallis, well known on the Manchester left and stalwart of the city&#8217;s Left Unity branch, died of a heart attack last week. Having first met Steve at an LU meeting only late last year, I cannot claim to have known him well. But Steve had a frank disposition – that rare type who&#8230;<a href="http://communistplatform.org.uk/rip-steve-wallis/">Read more <span class="screen-reader-text">RIP Steve Wallis</span></a>]]></description>
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