Campaign Briefings
NEC acknowledges (sort of!) International Women’s Day At the March meeting of the NEC’s Organisation Sub-Committee, a failed attempt was made to agree a Recall Conference. Laura Pidcock made a spirited rejoinder to the defeat. This prompted a response from Margaret Beckett, the new NEC Chair put there by the anti-left majority against the established […]
on 08.03.21 Campaign Labour Party Internal Elections 2021: Support the Grassroots CandidatesThe Campaign for Labour Party Democracy is seeking nomination for candidates for the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC), National Constitutional Committee (NCC) and the Labour Women’s Committee. See here for more information.
on 08.03.21 Article Building for Labour’s Women’s Conference on 03.03.21 Statement Grassroots Labour Women – Collective Political StatementSee below for a collective statement agreed by the Grassroots Labour Women slate. You can also download the statement here. The team of five are: Ekua Bayunu Mandy Clare Tricia Duncan Pamela Fitzpatrick Chlöe Hopkins Nominations (and delegate applications for the conference) are to be submitted by CLPs by Midnight, Wednesday 26 May 2021. The […]
on 26.02.21 Campaign Briefing Local Campaign Forum’s Rise From the Dead!The status of Local Campaign Forum’s (LCF) has been in doubt for years. Where they were controlled by the right, many were mothballed two and three years ago. For the past year, many CLPs have been told by Regional officers or borough organisers that they don’t exist and have been abolished. But there has been […]
on 24.02.21 Campaign Labour Party Women’s Committee: Support the Grassroots Labour Women TeamSupport the Grassroots Labour Women team for the Labour Party Women’s Committee elections (CLP places).
on 20.02.21 Campaign Briefing First Past the Post for Democratic SocialismThe 2011 UK referendum on the Parliamentary voting system came down decisively in favour of retaining the existing First Past The Post (FPTP) method of electing MPs – 68% to 32%. It seems unlikely that a change to any form of proportional representation is going to be made in the immediate future. That being said, […]
on 17.02.21 Article Mobilise Labour’s Grassroots for a Socialist Agenda on 17.02.21 Article The Shine Has Come Off Starmer on 17.02.21 Article Tel’s Tales (February) on 17.02.21 Campaign Briefing Tel’s Tales (February)Shorter’s Caught Short Over the years so-called Hedge Funds have made countless billions by shorting shares on the stock market (i.e. having an arrangement to sell shares they don’t own, then later closing the deal by buying the shares, when the price has slumped). Recently Hedge Funds put their teeth into a US company, Gamestop, […]
on 15.02.21 Campaign Campaign: Restore the Whip to Jeremy CorbynCLPD opposes the anti-democratic decision to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn, a day after he was re-instated to Party membership. Send our model email to Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Nick Brown (Chief Whip) and Labour’s NEC
on 06.02.21 Newsletter CLPD Women’s Collective – NewsletterSee here for an update from the CLPD Women’s Collective
on 06.02.21 Model motion CLPD Model Motion – Labour Needs to Back a ‘Zero Covid’ StrategySee below a model motion for consideration in your Branches/ CLPs. You can also download the motion as as a also Word document and PDF. Email addresses for Keir Starmer and NEC members can be found here CLPD Model Motion – Labour needs to back a ‘Zero Covid’ Strategy To: Keir Starmer and all members […]
on 30.01.21 Article Tel’s Tales (January) on 30.01.21 Campaign Briefing Tel’s Tales (January)January’s Tel’s Tales
on 30.01.21 Candidate Report Grassroots Voice NEC Report – Organisation Sub-Committee 21.01.2021See her for a report from the Labour Party NEC Organisation Sub-Committee meeting held 21st January 2021 from the Grassroots Voice NEC CLP representatives team: Gemma Bolton, Yasmine Dar, Nadia Jama, Laura Pidcock, Mish Rahman.
on 24.01.21 Candidate Report Grassroots Voice NEC Report – November 2020- January 2021See below for a report from the Grassroots Voice NEC representatives, backed by CLPD and the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance: Gemma Bolton, Yasmine Dar, Nadia Jama, Laura Pidcock, Mish Rahman This report was originally published on grassrootslabour.net You can also download the report here NEC Report – Grassroots Voice Team This is the first of the […]
on 23.01.21 Model motion CLPD Model Motion – Stop the Spy Cops BillPlease see here a model motion on the Spy Cops Bill for consideration within your CLP.
on 22.01.21 Article Politics and the Pandemic – Building a Strong Labour Women’s Organisation on 22.01.21 Draft Submission Labour’s Policy Development Review – CLPD Draft SubmissionConsultation is currently taking place as part of Labour’s review of the way it makes policy. Below are CLPD’s suggested responses to the questions the party is asking in the consultation. They are also attached as a word document here and a PDF file here. Responses can be made up till 3 February, either on Labour’s website here or […]
on 27.12.20 Model motion Labour must not support Tories’ Hard BrexitLabour must not support Tories’ Hard Brexit Please see below a model emergency motion for CLPs to consider. If your CLP is not in a position to agree an emergency motion prior to the 30 December, when Parliament meets to discuss the deal, your CLP Officers may wish to send a letter instead. If officers […]
on 19.12.20 Article Tel’s Tales (December) on 19.12.20 Campaign Briefing Tel’s Tales (December)Find your regular round up of Wisdom from Tel below… Bile and Yet More Bile The covertly right wing so-called ‘political commentators’, in the Guardian staff can be relied upon to be the most vicious in relation to Jeremy Corbyn. “Mr Corbyn said one thing while doing another… he is a narcissist … […]