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  • Labour Campaign for International Development is a group for all those committed to a world without poverty & injustice: http://lcid.org.uk
  • Progress is the New Labour pressure group which aims to promote a radical and progressive politics for the 21st century. Founded in 1996, it is broadly viewed as supportive of the leadership of the party, being pro former leader Tony Blair. Progress publishes a monthly magazine of the same name and occasional pamphlets, and organises conferences and other events: http://www.progressonline.org.uk/
  • Compass is a centre left pressure group, aligned with the Labour Party describing itself as ‘An umbrella grouping of the progressive left whose sum is greater than its parts’. Compass differs from a classic thinktank in that it is a membership organisation and thus seeks to be a pressure group and a force for political organisation and mobilisation: http://www.compassonline.org.uk
  • The Fabian Society has played a central role for more than a century in the development of political ideas and public policy on the left of centre. Analysing the key challenges facing the UK and the rest of the industrialised world in a changing society and global economy, the society’s programme aims to explore the political ideas and the policy reforms which will define progressive politics in the new century: http://www.fabians.org.uk/
  • The Co-operative Party is a registered political party founded by the Co-operative Movement in 1917 in order to promote its values and principles. It enjoys total freedom in determining policy, disseminating information and in the organisation of its electoral machine. The Co-operative Party works in partnership with the Labour Party as its sister party to achieve these ends. There are currently 28 Labour/Co-operative MPs including Ed Balls: http://www.party.coop/

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OTHER LINKS


  • Party of European Socialists (PES) brings together the Socialist, Social Democratic and Labour Parties of the European Union: http://www.pes.org
  • Europeans for Financial Reform,  a coalition campiagning for regulation of global finance now! The global financial crisis is affecting every aspect of our lives, threatening jobs, savings, pensions and public services everywhere. Today’s crisis is not just another economic downturn. We are living through a systemic crisis, which has had devastating consequences across the globe: http://europeansforfinancialreform.org/
  • The Labour Party is a member of the Socialist International (SI) which is the worldwide organisation of social democratic, socialist and labour parties. It currently brings together 170 political parties and organisations from all continents: http://www.socialistinternational.org/
  • Labour has 13 Members of the European Parliament which make up the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP).  The EPLP has its own leadership and spokespeople representing the Labour Party in the European Parliament: http://www.eurolabour.org.uk/
  • The EPLP is part of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S & D) which is the second largest group in the European Parliament and has 184 MEPs: http://www.socialistgroup.eu/gpes/index.jsp
  • The Labour Movement for Europe is a group of activists from all parts of the UK and all parts of the Labour movement which makes for the case for Europe: www.labourmovementforeurope.org.uk
  • The Foundation for European Progressive Societies is a European-wide think tank where the Fabian Society plays a key role: www.feps-europe.eu


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