The current crisis in Ukraine has, among other things, highlighted the issue of nationalism in the former soviet republics, and in particular extreme right nationalism. The politics of the Euromaidan movement, which toppled President Yanukovich are overwhelmingly those of Ukrainian [...]
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How to describe the 23 August meeting of Left Unity’s Executive Committee? There was much discussed to look forward to, not least the planned UK speaking tour by representatives of the new left-wing Spanish party Podemos in conjunction with LU’s [...]
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For nearly eleven years now I have worked in bars, restaurants and cafes. Sometimes in and around studies, other jobs or unemployment – sometimes full-time. I fell into this area of the service sector quite without design. Never having been [...]
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“Freak” “Mosher” “Weirdo” “Slag” “Goth” “Poof” If court transcripts, internet rumours or witness statements are to be believed, the above were the last words Sophie Lancaster heard as she was stamped, kicked and beaten to death in 2007. She and her partner Robert Maltby, both twenty-one, were [...]
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People have been seeing surprising pictures in the papers and on our TV screens of migrants trying to storm ferries to Britain in Calais. What people have not been seeing is the violence suffered by migrants in Calais, especially over [...]
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The situation in Ukraine has turned dramatically to the worse since the article in the last issue of The Project. A ceasefire in June held only for a few days. Since then the conflict between the Kiev government’s forces, aided [...]
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The Left Unity leadership has ignored conference and stalled talks on left unity, writes Pete McLaren I set myself the political goal at the start of 2014 of doing my bit to unite the left in the run up to the [...]
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I am a scientist by trade and as such am frankly proud to be part of an enterprise in which the evidence is king. Not for us dogma, blind prejudice or even personal greed and ego. If the evidence says [...]
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Just after the 1 July issue of The Project was published with an initial response to the Rolf Harris guilty verdict, reports began to be circulated in the press about Elm House, a former children’s home in south west London, [...]
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Being a firefighter.... I always say it's what I do, not what I am, but it is a big part of my life. I have been doing it now for 29 years and I am institutionalised in a way. I [...]
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