Jess Barnard, one of the Left NEC reps reports on the away day meeting via twitter The complete thread is available on a threadreader page. I have made this article and hope to do more which can be followed at
Jess Barnard on the NEC Away day
Musical chairs on Labour’s NEC
The results of the NEC Trade Union division were announced this morning, the Bakers Union has been replaced by the Musicians Union.
The May NEC
I am not sure how well it’s being circulated, but here is Yasmine Dar’s write up of the last NEC meeting, I don’t think we’ll be ending factionalism any time soon. It’s very long and deals powerfully with policy development,
New Blood, New Labour
The NEC are considering whether to use STV for the CLP division of the NEC. This is important, and much discussion is to be had about whether and how this will change the power on the NEC and if its
Corbyn sceptics win positions on Labour’s NEC
The Labour NEC by-election results have been announced, the Labour First slate have won, partly because the Left were split between Momentum and CLPD. Here’s Sienna Miller, “Corbynsceptics sweep the board in Labour’s ruling body by-elections” at Labour List, and here’s a .pdf mirror of Labour’s announcement page.
Vote for the #JC9
And the Labour NEC elections (& NPF) open tomorrow, here’s the momentum video, vote for all 9 of those supporting Corbyn on the NEC. https://twitter.com/PeoplesMomentum/status/1021118935331041280
Labour’s internal elections
Lewisham Deptford CLP has a General Committee tomorrow; it will be making nominations for the Labour Party’s national committee vacancies. I have advertised the names, here & here. Here is a leaflet for the meeting, it can be reused for
The Left Slate for Labour’s NEC (2018)
The 2018 slate Hover over the pictures for their headline message; this is available as a leaflet, see here…, published by CLPD. I hope you’ll nominate them. The CLGA are supporting Daniel Blaney of West Ham CLP, Membership No: A885633
Renewing Party Democracy
The LP NEC is having an away day to discuss reforming its rules and internal democracy, mainly in the light of the massive increase in membership to more than half a million members. Here’s my manifesto for a member led
What do with the registered supporters?
Ann Black reports on the September, pre-conference National Executive Committee at Left Futures. These are clearly hard things to write since getting a balance between hope for the future and a description of what’s happening can be hard. I felt