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2011 LRC Conference Report: Resist the Cuts, Rebuild the Party

17th January 2011

The LRC conference passed the National Committee statement, an emergency motion from CWU on the Royal Mail, and motions 1-9 and 11-16 from the Resolutions booklet. Motion 10 was lost by approximately 2:1.

Conference elected a new National Committee, which meets about every two months to discuss LRC strategy, and to oversee the running of the organisation. View the new National Committee for 2011. There was a contested election for Section B ‘Individual Members’ and you can download the election results.

Conference also heard speeches from Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn MP, John McDonnell MP, Clare Solomon and Matt Wrack (FBU), and from guest international speaker and Tunisian national Mohamed Ali Harrath. You can watch all these speeches online at LRC TV

Read the 2010 LRC Annual Report

Katy Clark MP, who had to pull out of the conference, sent this message of solidarity:

Please send my best wishes to the LRC conference. I am sorry I can’t be there. I am up in Scotland to attend a CLP meeting which has been fixed for this weekend. It will probably be the last time that we meet before the Scottish Parliament elections later this year where the majority of my seat is held by the SNP with a 48 majority. It is a beautiful part of the world and anyone who is able to come and help us campaign will be made more than welcome.

It is vital we do well in the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and local council elections. We need to take the Tories on and equip our movement with the arguments and policies it needs. We need to win the argument that these cuts are not necessary and that there is an alternative. It was failures of the market which created the economic problems we are now dealing with. We need to argue for the vision of a different society and ensure that steps are taken to ensure that it does not happen again. If we are bold and united we will be successful.

Read Morning Star report of the LRC conference.