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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