Category: Labour Party

Rachel Garnham, vice-Chair of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, looks ahead to Labour Women’s Conference. Labour’s Annual Women’s Conference (AWC) takes place 19-20 March online; and left representatives on both Women’s Conference Arrangements Committee (WCAC) and Labour’s National Women’s Committee (NWC) are working hard to try and ensure women members’ voices are heard and… Continue reading Keeping Women’s Conference left

Richard Price reports on the problems facing Labour Party members in London selecting their candidates for May's elections. One of the things the Labour Right prides itself on is professionalism, and nowhere more so than in local government. To read Luke Akehurst you’d think that all that stands between us and a descent into Dark… Continue reading London selection chaos

The Labour Party’s Women’s Conference will take place online over the weekend of Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th March. Since the Women’s Conference was re-established under the Corbyn leadership the left has won most of the policy battles and the elections there, but this year’s conference is expected to be a lot closer between left… Continue reading Labour Women’s Conference

The right of members to select their local government candidates is being usurped by a Labour First power grab reports Richard Price, Leyton and Wanstead CLP. It’s selection time in London’s 32 boroughs for next May’s council elections – a time when party members come together to stab each other in the back, powerful figures… Continue reading A travesty of democracy

Misrepresenting history doesn’t educate anyone, argues Richard Price, Leyton and Wanstead CLP. “Labour’s worst defeat since 1935” – if we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a thousand times since 2019. For the Labour right it has become a neat mantra intended to encapsulate how unelectable Jeremy Corbyn was by benchmarking the last general election… Continue reading 1935 and all that