The current issue of the Weekly Worker carries two articles concerning Left Unity.

In the first, ComPlat supporter Laurie McCauley reports on worrying developments in the Manchester branch, where a motion of censure has been brought against one comrade, for comments on the internal email list expressing polite disagreement with other members:

http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1010/left-unity-what-safe-spaces-lead-to/

In other news, the writing of a fairly innocuous press release by the LU leadership on the arrest of Gerry Adams, in a rare display of initiative, has kicked off a huge barney on the article’s comment thread. Paul Demarty attempts to explain that avoiding disagreements is a road to nowhere in this article:

http://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1010/left-unity-keeping-disagreements-hidden/