Campaign news

Contemporary motions at Labour Party conference

Democracy returns to Labour Party conference this year as CLPs again have the right to submit motions to conference and delegates to vote on them. CLPs have until 12 noon on 17 September to submit a contemporary motion to conference. [continue...]

Back Susan Press and Christine Shawcroft for the NEC

The LRC is supporting our vice chair Susan Press and National Committee member Christine Shawcroft for election to the Labour Party NEC this year. Labour Party members will receive ballot papers for the NEC elections in September, and we urge all members and supporters to vote for Susan and Christine - and to urge fellow party members to do so too. [continue...]

LRC statement on the Labour leadership

The LRC has written to all candidates in the Labour leadership contest, asking them their views on three key issues:  [continue...]

LRC backs Ken Livingstone as Labour candidate for Mayor

Vote Ken Livingstone for London Mayor Members of the Labour Party and affiliated unions and societies in London will shortly be balloted on who should be the Party’s candidate for Mayor of London in the election to take place in 2012. [continue...]

Lobby your MP to back the Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill

After coming first in the Private Members’ Ballot and in consultation with the trade union movement and leading trade union lawyers, John McDonnell MP is sponsoring the Lawful Industrial Action (Minor Errors) Bill to tackle the increasing practice by employers of using minor technical errors in the balloting process - which have no material effect on the outcome - to take unions to court in order to prevent them from taking industrial action. [continue...]

No justice as police exonerated again

Ian Tomlinson died at the G20 protests on 1st April 2009. Today is also the 5th anniversary of the shooting by armed officers of Jean-Charles de Menezes. It has taken the CPS nearly a year to publish this report; their reasons are that it’s a “difficult and complex case”... Understandably the family of Ian Tomlinson was greatly concerned by the lengthy investigation fearing a cover-up and the impact this whole process has had on their lives. In April 2010, John McDonnell and leading civil liberties campaigners, MEPs and trade unionists wrote a letter to the Guardian to express their “growing concerns” about the investigation. [continue...]