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The Northern Region LRC gets behind two socialist candidates in SE Northumberland. Print E-mail
By Steve Brown, Northern Region LRC Co-ordinator.   
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
ronnie_campbellmp.jpgOn Saturday 23rd Jan, the Northern Region LRC (Labour Representation Committee) met in Gateshead to hear a speech from Ronnie Campbell MP for Blyth Valley in Northumberland.  Ronnie, who is a well known life long socialist and former NUM activist, addressed the 17 strong gathering of LP and TU activists and laid out his view of the Labour Movement, a view of its history and the perspectives for the coming election.
 
LRC Conference Report 2009 Print E-mail
By Terry McPartlan (Tyneside)   
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
lrc1.jpgThis year’s LRC conference took place on Saturday 14th November in central London. The LRC is currently the biggest left formation in the Labour Party with over 1000 members and with affiliations from 6 national trade unions. Although it is probably the most significant left group in the party for some 15 or more years, it is  best viewed as an anticipation of what is to come. Some 240 people attended this year’s conference with about half being delegates from affiliated organisations. The composition of the conference was in the main drawn from older lefts in the unions and the Labour Party, but there was also a smattering of young people.
 
Labour Left rallies in Cambridge Print E-mail
By Matt Wells   
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
cambridge.jpgMatt Wells reports on the formation of an LRC group in Cambridge, in the build up to the annual conference of LRC in London in November
 
LRC AGM: 14th November 2009 Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Monday, 14 September 2009
lrc_logo.gifDetails have just been announced for this years conference of the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meeting on London on Saturday 14th November. Socialist Appeal supports the work of the LRC and will be at the conference again this year. Why not come along?
 
Glasgow: Brown not welcome here! Print E-mail
By Ewan Gibbs   
Friday, 17 April 2009
gb1.jpgPoor old Gordon Brown, down in the polls as his part in destroying the lives of millions of working people through his mismanagement of the economy is exposed to all. With his attempts to smear the Tories blowing up in his own face, things aren’t going so well for him. He thought a cabinet meeting in Glasgow, away from the City and Fleet Street, might do some good for his popularity. He was wrong.
 
Welfare ‘reform’ and David Freud’s defection to the Tories Print E-mail
By Fred McDowell   
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
df.jpgThe welfare ‘reform’ measures currently wending their way through Parliament are so right wing you might have thought they were drafted by the Tories. Funny you should mention it...David Freud, who drafted the White Paper on which the bill is based, has just defected to the Conservatives. This shows two things:    

<!--[He’s a rat leaving what he sees as a sinking ship

<!--[New Labour sucking up to the Tories with anti-working class policies just paves the way for the real thing to take over and put the boot in further.

 
More on the LRC Conference Print E-mail
By Terry McPartlan   
Tuesday, 18 November 2008

tb1.jpgThe LRC combines a growing part of the Labour left as well as a few groups outside of the party who don’t stand in elections against it. Most significantly it has affiliations from a number of national unions (including the RMT and FBU) and branches and a good third of the 203 accredited delegates who voted in the National Committee elections were from affiliated organisations. Total attendance was around 270.

 
LRC Conference Report Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Monday, 17 November 2008

lrc1.jpgMore than 200 delegates and visitors met at the Conway Hall on Saturday November 15th for the Annual Conference of the Labour Representation Committee, the organising hub of the left wing within the Labour Party and among trade union activists. There was a determined mood among those meeting. After years of right wing drift and domination of the labour movement, LRC members rightly felt that the crisis had brought out the urgency for socialist ideas to be heard and taken up. The Conference was opened by a stirring speech from Tony Benn.

 
Jeremy Dear speaks at LRC Conference Print E-mail
By Jeremy Dear   
Monday, 17 November 2008

jd.jpgBy Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists

Last year, Richard Desmond, the proprietor of Express Newspapers announced he was paying himself a chairman’s remuneration of some £52m - the equivalent of £1m a week.

It hardly raised an eyebrow. 

Although hefty by historical standards, it was not by contemporary ones. Just a few months earlier Lakshmi Mittal had paid himself a record £1.1bn dividend. At the time it was the highest private dividend on record. But that record did not last for long as high street retailer Philip Green topped it with a dividend of £1.2bn from his Arcadia Group – the equivalent of the annual pay of 54,000 people on average earnings.

 
David Lammy bumps into real world Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Tuesday, 14 October 2008

lammy.jpgSometimes little incidents reveal much more fundamental truths.  This article from the Guardian on Tuesday September 09 which covered some of the fringe meetings at the TUC conference clearly demonstrates just how out of touch many of the New Labour careerists really are:

“One telling anecdote to emerge from the Compass gathering was when David Lammy, the schools minister, discussed his shock at finding one of his mother's pay slips, dated 1986. Lammy's mother, recently deceased, had worked both in the NHS and for London Underground. Going through his mum's things after her death, Lammy learned that her take-home pay 22 years ago was just £900 a month." 

 
Mandelson back - Dracula has risen from the grave Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Friday, 10 October 2008

mandy.jpgSo Peter Mandelson, the ‘Prince of Darkness’ is incredibly back in the government after having had to quit on two previous occasions. His is to take up the job of Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform - naturally.  People new to politics may wonder what all the fuss is about, not least since Mandelson has been hiding away in euro-bureaucracy land for the last four years as EU Trade Commissioner.

 
Labour Party Conference – fiddling while Rome burns Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Friday, 26 September 2008

lp-conf.jpgLabour is in electoral meltdown. The newspaper headlines are screaming ‘We’re all doomed’ on account of the world economic crisis. But they were desperately trying not to allow the real world to impinge on the surreal world inside Labour Party Conference. 

“The weirdest conference I’ve ever attended,” so said one experienced political commentator in reviewing this year’s Labour Party conference in Manchester. With Labour trailing badly in the opinion polls and having faced a series of bad to awful results in successive by elections, local council elections and the London Mayoral election, you might have expected the mood to be depressed and flat. And so for most it was.

 
Look Who's Talking Print E-mail
By Steve Jones   
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
balfe300.jpgUnion members will be more than a little alarmed at reports that union officials have been having secret talks with someone called Richard Balfe, who is Tory Leader Cameron’s ‘special envoy’ to the trade unions. Those who lived through the last Tory government and remember all too well their vicious attacks on trade union rights as part of their plan to destroy the union movement will be amazed, to say the least, at the fact that a) the Tories have a trade union envoy and b) that some of our leaders are prepared to talk to him.
 
Labour's crisis – time to act Print E-mail
By Socialist Appeal   
Thursday, 28 August 2008
harriet-harman.jpgAs we have explained over the past year or so, the effects of the financial crash and its political consequences have represented a flash flood in British Politics. After many years of apparent stability we have entered a period of sharp turns and sudden changes as the deep underlying problems and contradictions in British society have broken through the surface of events.
 
LABOUR’S NATIONAL POLICY FORUM – THE WARWICK 2 FIASCO Print E-mail
By Steve McKenzie   
Monday, 11 August 2008
steve-mck.jpgLabour’s National Policy Forum took place in Coventry over the weekend of the 25th, 26th and 27th July. The policy objectives were to be known as Warwick 2

The Forum took place against the backdrop of the disastrous by-election defeat in Glasgow East. This in turn was only the latest in a list of electoral humiliations over the past few months. The Henley, Crewe and Nantwich by-election defeats, the council elections and the defeat in London’s mayoral elections, are all a reflection of the utter frustration felt by the working class electorate after ten years of New Labour pandering to big business.

 
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