Campaign Briefings
The status of Local Campaign Forum’s (LCF) has been in doubt for years. Where they were controlled by the right, many were mothballed two and three years ago. For the past year, many CLPs have been told by Regional officers or borough organisers that they don’t exist and have been abolished. But there has been […]
on 24.02.21 Campaign Labour Party Women’s Committee: Support the Grassroots Labour Women TeamSupport the Grassroots Labour Women team for the Labour Party Women’s Committee elections (CLP places).
on 20.02.21 Campaign Briefing First Past the Post for Democratic SocialismThe 2011 UK referendum on the Parliamentary voting system came down decisively in favour of retaining the existing First Past The Post (FPTP) method of electing MPs – 68% to 32%. It seems unlikely that a change to any form of proportional representation is going to be made in the immediate future. That being said, […]
on 17.02.21 Article Mobilise Labour’s Grassroots for a Socialist Agenda on 17.02.21 Article The Shine Has Come Off Starmer on 17.02.21 Article Tel’s Tales (February) on 17.02.21 Campaign Briefing Tel’s Tales (February)Shorter’s Caught Short Over the years so-called Hedge Funds have made countless billions by shorting shares on the stock market (i.e. having an arrangement to sell shares they don’t own, then later closing the deal by buying the shares, when the price has slumped). Recently Hedge Funds put their teeth into a US company, Gamestop, […]
on 15.02.21 Campaign Campaign: Restore the Whip to Jeremy CorbynCLPD opposes the anti-democratic decision to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn, a day after he was re-instated to Party membership. Send our model email to Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Nick Brown (Chief Whip) and Labour’s NEC
on 06.02.21 Newsletter CLPD Women’s Collective – NewsletterSee here for an update from the CLPD Women’s Collective
on 06.02.21 Model motion CLPD Model Motion – Labour Needs to Back a ‘Zero Covid’ StrategySee below a model motion for consideration in your Branches/ CLPs. You can also download the motion as as a also Word document and PDF. Email addresses for Keir Starmer and NEC members can be found here CLPD Model Motion – Labour needs to back a ‘Zero Covid’ Strategy To: Keir Starmer and all members […]
on 30.01.21 Article Tel’s Tales (January) on 30.01.21 Campaign Briefing Tel’s Tales (January)January’s Tel’s Tales
on 24.01.21 Candidate Report Grassroots Voice NEC Report – November 2020- January 2021See below for a report from the Grassroots Voice NEC representatives, backed by CLPD and the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance: Gemma Bolton, Yasmine Dar, Nadia Jama, Laura Pidcock, Mish Rahman This report was originally published on grassrootslabour.net You can also download the report here NEC Report – Grassroots Voice Team This is the first of the […]
on 23.01.21 Model motion CLPD Model Motion – Stop the Spy Cops BillPlease see here a model motion on the Spy Cops Bill for consideration within your CLP.
on 22.01.21 Article Politics and the Pandemic – Building a Strong Labour Women’s Organisation on 22.01.21 Draft Submission Labour’s Policy Development Review – CLPD Draft SubmissionConsultation is currently taking place as part of Labour’s review of the way it makes policy. Below are CLPD’s suggested responses to the questions the party is asking in the consultation. They are also attached as a word document here and a PDF file here. Responses can be made up till 3 February, either on Labour’s website here or […]
on 27.12.20 Model motion Labour must not support Tories’ Hard BrexitLabour must not support Tories’ Hard Brexit Please see below a model emergency motion for CLPs to consider. If your CLP is not in a position to agree an emergency motion prior to the 30 December, when Parliament meets to discuss the deal, your CLP Officers may wish to send a letter instead. If officers […]
on 19.12.20 Article Tel’s Tales (December) on 19.12.20 Campaign Briefing Tel’s Tales (December)Find your regular round up of Wisdom from Tel below… Bile and Yet More Bile The covertly right wing so-called ‘political commentators’, in the Guardian staff can be relied upon to be the most vicious in relation to Jeremy Corbyn. “Mr Corbyn said one thing while doing another… he is a narcissist … […]
on 13.12.20 Article Keir Starmer – Fight the Tories, not the left! on 12.12.20 Article An Open Letter to Keir Starmer and David Evans on 10.12.20 Model motion Model Motions – Northern England Labour LeftModel Motions – Northern England Labour Left Please see here some model motions from our friends at Northern England Labour Left, some of which are based on Keir Starmer’s ’10 pledges’ which can be found on the CLPD site here.
on 10.12.20 Letter Letter from 280+ CLP Chairs and Secretaries to David Evans196 Chairs and Secretaries have written to General Secretary David Evans, instructing him to withdraw his guidance which restricts democratic debate of party business, such as expressions of solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn and motions which call for the whip to be restored to Jeremy Corbyn.
on 08.12.20 Model motion Model motion – Fund Public Services Not WarModel motion calling on Keir Starmer to call for an increase in the funding of public services – not military spending