Campaign for Labour Party Democracy - Fringe Meeting at 2014 TUC Congress The Unions and the Labour Party – How to build the strength and influence of the TUs within the…
Organising for Labour in Scotland
Article for CLPD newsletter (Aug 2014) The Scottish Labour Policy Forum members were elected in January 2014, and Commissions have been set up around four broad policy themes. These are:…
Labour executive elections: best Left result since 1980s with 55% of members’ votes
By Jon Lansman This was first published on Left Futures The results of the elections for constituency party (CLP) representatives on Labour’s national executive were a triumph for the Centre Left Grassroots…
Ann Black reports from the National Executive Committee of 22 July 2014
NEC meetings always start with tributes to members who have died, and in July these included Bob Jones, the police and crime commissioner for the West Midlands, who was just…
CLPD’s Conference Guide 2014
Peter Willsman’s Conference Guide 2014 can be downloaded here.
Carol Hayton reports from the National Policy Forum
NPF meeting 18th-20 July 2014. The final National Policy Forum (NPF) gathering of the current cycle took place in Milton Keynes over a long weekend starting on 18th July 2014. This…
Ann Black reports on Labour’s national policy forum
Milton Keynes, 18/20 July 2014 Like the last pre-election Forum in 2008 this was held on the hottest weekend of the year, but there the similarities ceased, and not just…
Trade unions vote against ending austerity in 2015
By Jon Lansman Originally published by Left Futures The climax of Labour’s formal policy process this weekend which had involved 1,300 amendments from local parties to eight policy documents, filtered down and…
THE NPF AT MILTON KEYNES
BY MARIA FYFE, FORMER MP FOR GLASGOW MARYHILL and NPF member representing Scotland To put things in perspective, I will begin with a brief account of Warwick 2. In 2008,…