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Message from Nina Davies, Spain

I am crying as I write this, watching the Labour party conference live. I should be writing notes for a meeting in my home town in Spain tomorrow. My tears are of thanks for the inspiration I am getting from the people speaking to the conference motions, acts designed to…

Ann Bonner meets Jennie Formby

View from the balcony: day three at Conference by Frank Bonner

With the formalities out of the way the conference got underway discussing a motion brought forward from the Women’s Conference earlier in the year on Universal Credit. Delegates all had their own tales to tell of the horrors people in their areas were suffering as a result of Universal Credit…

Fringe: Winning back Labour’s heartlands by Rowan Shaw

At lunchtime, my sister and I headed for the Grand to a LabourList session about how to win back the Labour Heartlands. The session was chaired by Sienna Rodgers from Labour List, who started by asking Ash Sarkar (Novara Media) what she thought were the Labour Heartlands. Ash questioned the…

Results of the election to the LI Executive Committee 2019

The elected Labour International Executive Committee is as follows: Officer Position Name Country Chair/Deputy Treasurer Semahimbo, Jenny Spain F Vice Chair O’Driscoll, Colin Belgium M Vice Chair/ Membership (JS)Adams, Les & Aitkenhead, Alan Spain Spain M M Secretary James, Charles Portugal M Treasurer Hollingworth, Ian Thailand M Women Hill,…

LICC 26/8/2018 at 13:00 CEST

LICC meeting. Usual Zoom link.

How this website works

This setup doesn’t work like a normal WordPress. Here’s my preliminary explanation of one of the functions that doesn’t work the usual way and the solutions I’ve found so far. Posts and Pages Setting a page to show posts as in a normal WordPress doesn’t seem to work. The posts…

Hunting in packs: a guide to guerilla campaigning

Go onto non-Labour Party Facebook groups and pages and get involved – comment on posts, challenge. Like the comments you agree with, challenge the ones you don’t. Get a group of people together – the more the better – and draw up a list of sites – FB, local blogspots,…

Mobilise support from the International Labour Movement

The Labour Party is a through and through internationalist party. It unequivocally protects the rights of immigrants in the UK, and under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership will be a real force for peace and socialism internationally. Now is the time to mobilise the vast latent support that exists for the Labour…

LI members survey on Brexit

Thanks to all Labour International members who participated in this survey. To ensure no claims of manipulation can be made, the results are published as screenshots as they appeared at the back end of the website. So apologies to those who don’t like the format provided. The objective of the…

Article 50 – basic information

Introduction In 2007, Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, known as the Lisbon Treaty, introduced for the first time a mechanism for the withdrawal of a country from the European Union. Prior to this no EU treaty had given member states the right to withdraw from the union…