‘Labour's Future’ campaign news

Vote Left in Labour elections

The ballot for the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) and National Policy Forum (NPF) opens on 25 May. These are important elections in the governance and policy-making structures of the Party. However imperfect these structures may be, we need to make sure that as many socialist candidates as possible are elected.  [continue...]

FEATURE: Wales back in the Red

Darren Williams, Secretary of Welsh Labour Grassroots, analyses the election results in Wales and what they mean for Labour and the campaign against austerity. [continue...]

PRESS: Voters reject coalition cuts policies. Time for Labour’s alternative

On 3 May, voters across England, Wales and Scotland firmly rejected the austerity policies of the coalition government. Hundreds of Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors were booted out of office, with large swings against the governing parties. [continue...]

Vote No to elected mayors

People living in ten English cities (Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield, and Wakefield) will have a vote on 3 May asking whether they want an elected mayor for their city. [continue...]

Thanks for your NEC nominations for Gary Heather & Christine Shawcroft: Next Steps

The deadline has now passed to make nominations for the Labour Party NEC elections. Thanks to the dozens of CLPs that nominated Gary Heather and Christine Shawcroft. Christine was the second most nominated candidate with 203 nominations, while Gary - standing for the first time - secured 49 nominations (about 1 in 8 of all CLPs that made nominations). [continue...]

PRESS: Labour MPs and councillors back 30 November strike and say ‘we won’t cross picket lines’

On 30 November thousands of ordinary Labour members will be backing public sector workers in their dispute with the government. In Scotland all Labour MSPs have pledged their support and will not cross picket lines at Holyrood. Likewise Labour AMs in Wales will not cross picket lines at Cardiff Bay. [continue...]

LRC Conference 2011 - Labour’s Resistance

The LRC’s annual conference ‘Labour’s Resistance’ took place on Saturday 19 November in London. Conference debated and voted on policy - everything from adult social care to Iran - elected new officers and a national committee, and held hustings for LRC nominees for the centre-left Labour Party NEC slate. Around 250-300 individual members and delegates from local groups and affiliates attended. [continue...]

Labour Party conference needs democracy and debate, not abolition

Joint secretaries Pete Firmin and Andrew Fisher had a letter published in the Guardian calling for greater democracy and debate at party conference to make it relevant again, and for the Party to find the policies that can win back members and voters to defeat the coalition government. [continue...]

PRESS: Labour is a political movement not a fanclub

. . .Grassroots labour activists and MPs reluctantly call for rejection of Refounding Labour [continue...]

Contemporary motions for Labour Party conference

The LRC has prepared three draft contemporary motions ahead of Labour Party conference (25-29 September in Liverpool). You can download the model motions here: [continue...]

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