‘Labour's Future’ campaign news

Nominate Gary Heather and Christine Shawcroft for the NEC

Your CLP is now able to make nominations for the Labour Party NEC elections, which will take place later in the year. The LRC is asking to you to seek nominations for Gary Heather (download Gary’s statement) and Christine Shawcroft (download Christine’s statement). [continue...]

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...]

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...]

Public sector pensions - win the fight in the Party

Over three-quarters of a million trade unionists took co-ordinated strike action on 30 June. The unifying issue was the attack on public sector pensions, which would mean people paying more and working longer for a lower pension - even though public sector pension costs are falling, and are entirely sustainable. [continue...]

Refounding Labour - LRC guidance

Following Labour’s defeat at last year’s general election, there is recognition that the Labour Party is in need of fundamental change. Peter Hain is now chair of the National Policy Forum and was asked by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to write a consultation paper that both takes stock and asks some key questions on what Labour needs to do to regain the trust of British people. This is therefore an opportunity for the LRC to influence the change that will inevitably take place in the party. [continue...]

Elections 2011: Labour must offer an alternative

People punished the Lib Dems for betraying their promises but while they were rightly condemned, the Tories got off lightly. This is because no party is challenging their central claim - underpinning the ideological assault on the public sector and welfare state - that it was public spending that caused the crisis and cutting public spending is the solution. The Labour leadership only offers slightly fewer cuts slightly more slowly. [continue...]

Vote No to AV

The LRC National Committee voted in February 2011 to advocate a ‘No’ vote in the referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) on 5 May. [continue...]

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