Events

LRC Special Conference

Saturday 20th February 2016
10:00am to 4:30pm

After Corbyn’s Victory:
The tasks facing the Labour Left and LRC
Special General Meeting 2016

The left’s success in 2015 was truly extraordinary - Jeremy Corbyn was swept into the Labour leadership, with a massive democratic mandate from Party members and supporters.  But although we have won the leadership, we haven’t yet won control of the Party.  Hostile elements still abound, in the parliamentary Party, the organisational apparatus, and beyond.  There can be no place for routinism - the left must raise its game to meet the new tasks we now face.

In these exceptional circumstances, therefore, the LRC’s National Committee has decided to invoke the clause in our constitution (32) to call a Special General Meeting in order to have a focused, structured discussion about how we respond - politically and organisationally - to the new situation.  For these purposes the agenda will be based around discussion of a National Committee statement and recommendations for structural changes to how the LRC sees its role and operates going forward.

The statement can be found here:  NC Statement

National affiliates are entitled to submit and move amendments to the NC Statement.  The Conference Arrangements Committee reserves the right to rule on whether the subject of the amendments falls within the remit of the Special General Meeting, or whether they should be referred to the subsequent AGM (to be held later in 2016).

The SGM will also consider proposed constitutional changes, including to the structure of elected officerships and committees - with elections therefore deferred until the 2016 AGM. Further details to come as soon as possible

Special General Meeting
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
February 20th 2016
Register from 10 am.
The meeting will finish at 4 30 pm.