Around 40 people attended last Sunday’s third annual solidarity cricket match between Hands Off the People of Iran and the Labour Representation Committee - and raised well over £500 for Workers Fund Iran in the process. Bathed in sunshine, the picturesque corner of leafy Islington that was Wray Crescent pitch made for a wonderful cricketing environment. ...
Harley Filben reviews Owen Jones 'Chavs: the demonisation of the working class' Verso, 2011, pp298, £14.99 (first published in the Weekly Worker) This book, at first glance, appears to have come out of nowhere to dominate the world. Owen Jones is a supporter of the Labour Representation Committee, one of the main hotbeds of ...
Below is a statement in response to the article by James Turley 'Against the politics of purity' and the statement by Manchester comrades 'No support for Labour - No support for the LRC'. This is part of the debate in the lead up to our conference in March that will decide our perspectives for the ...
James Turley takes issue with comrades who oppose our affiliation to the LRC A number of comrades – including some self-identified left-communists – have raised objections to the decision of the Communist Students executive to affiliate CS to the Labour Representation Committee, a grouping of leftists operating in the Labour Party, but open to affiliates and ...
At a Communist Students’ Exec meeting on the 13th of December, a decision was made to affiliate to the Labour Representation Committee (LRC). The driving force behind this was Ben Lewis of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB, which has recently adopted a set of theses on the Labour Party.[1] Some points of which ...
Ben Lewis reviews Labour Representation Committee’s ‘A people’s agenda: a pamphlet for the general election 2010’* pp12, donation The Labour Representation Committee has been stepping up its activity for the election. A campaign of the Labour left whose most prominent leader is John McDonnell MP, the LRC is unsurprisingly calling for a Labour vote across the ...
The Labour Representation Committee has just published a list of Labour candidates that it will be actively supporting in the coming general election. It is a starting point, argues Ben Lewis The Labour Representation Committee’s January 13 press release on the general election highlights the weak position the Labour left currently finds itself in. This in ...
The Labour left is hoping just to maintain its foothold in the party and in parliament, writes Dave McAllister On Saturday November 14 the Labour Representation Committee held its annual general meeting, dubbed ‘Building the resistance’. Over 200 comrades attended and there were stalls for the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain, Bookmarks, Socialist Appeal and ...
Some 250 people packed into Conway Hall for the November 15 annual conference of the Labour Representation Committee. Ben Lewis looks at the key questions facing the Labour left Despite, for the most part, not getting much younger, those attending the LRC conference were certainly optimistic about the coming period. Talk was very upbeat about the ...
by Nick Jones The Socialist Youth Network (SYN), the Labour Representation Committee’s (LRC) youth organisation, met at the University of London Union on the 29th March for its annual conference. It has been over a year since the last SYN conference. Readers may remember that Owen Jones, Co-Chair of SYN conference last year, had perused ...
Dave Isaacson reports on the January 13 launch conference of Socialist Youth Network, the Labour Representation Committee’s youth organisation, at the University of London Union The conference started with an opening speech from John McDonnell. He ...
Weekly Worker ‘my favourite’ Tony Benn was one of three Labour Party politicians who addressed conference as guest speakers. His introductory speech was fairly standard, noting the warmongering, anti-working class policies of New Labour. He said New ...
Ben Lewis spoke to Marsha-Jane Thompson, SYN co-chair and one of the conference organisers Looking back to the conference, how do you think it went? I think it went extremely well, although it’s sometimes hard to tell from the ...