CLPD was formed in 1973 by a group of rank-and-file activists, with support from about ten Labour MPs. The main motivation for the Campaign was the record of the Labour governments in the sixties and the way that Annual Conference decisions were continually ignored on key domestic and international issues. The immediate cause was Harold Wilson's outright rejection in 1973 of the proposal to take into public ownership some 25 of the largest manufacturing companies, covering the major sectors of the economy.
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Support Grassroots candidates for the 2020 NEC Elections
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Ballots for Labour’s NEC elections will begin to go out on Monday 19th October and run until 12th November. These elections are a crucial opportunity for members to shape the future of the party. For the CLP section, CLPD is supporting the #GrassrootsVoice team of candidates who will advance a socialist policy agenda and defend party democracy. The candidates are: See more
Young Labour National Committee Elections: Support the ‘For a Socialist Future’ Team
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CLPD is supporting the ‘For a Socialist Future’ team of candidates for Young Labour’s National Committee elections. Ballots will go out to members of the Party under 27 and student members, from 19th October – 12th November, the same time period of the NEC Elections. If you are under 27, or are a student member of the Labour Party please vote for the following candidates See more
NEC Report September / October 2020
CLGA NEC CLP Reps
From Yasmine Dar, Ann Henderson and the CLP representatives on Labour’s National Executive Committee supported by the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance See more
Take these 3 CLPD Model Motions to your Branch or CLP this month!
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CLPD are promoting 3 model motions for CLPs/ Branches to consider in September on: A Zero Covid Strategy, Extending the Government Furlough Scheme, Opposing a Damaging US Trade Deal See more
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Ballots for Labour’s NEC elections will begin to go out on Monday 19th October and run until 12th November. These elections are a crucial opportunity for members to shape the future of the party. For the CLP section, CLPD is supporting the Grassroots Voice team of candidates who will advance a socialist policy agenda and defend party democracy. The candidates are:
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"Increasingly our MPs are drawn from professional backgrounds - now only some 3% are from manual occupational backgrounds (in 1951 this was 37%). And yet at least 30% of employees are in jobs classed as manual. Our Party and the unions must address this glaring disparity."- Cllr Mandy Clare,
CLPD EC member, , September 2020
"It's an abuse of members' money. It's as though a huge sign has been put up outside the Labour Party with 'Queue here with your writ and get your payment over there'"- Len McCluskey,
speaking about the Panorama "damages", Observer, , 2nd August 2020
"I'll tell you what happens with meaningless promises. You start with a bunch of abstract nouns. They are then pickled into a rigid centrist dogma - a code, irrelevant to the needs of one of the most unequal boroughs in Britain. And you end up in the grotesque chaos of a Labour council - Tower Hamlets - threatening to sack its entire workforce"- Freddie Demuth,
CLPD Activist, 1st July 2020
"Left parties have lost office in Europe because of their inability to articulate an alternative to austerity and cuts. The right offers individualism, a huge and growing wealth gap and a mean and divided society. Socialism is the sharing of wealth, the contribution of ability for the common good, and unity in defending our achievements against attack. It's also our only hope"- Jeremy Corbyn, 6 January 2012