Mandatory selection set to pass conference with Unite backing
As the SKWAWKBOX reported yesterday, Unite insiders – one of the UK’s and Labour’s largest unions – say that the union is set to get firmly behind changes to party […]
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Outrage grows as ‘Spellar’s club’ sends ‘unauthorised’ delegates to SECOND CLP
On Saturday, the SKWAWKBOX revealed that Brandhall Labour Club – home to the constituency office of right-wing Labour MP John Spellar and to right-wing faction Labour First‘s gatherings has been sending delegates […]
Local Labour eruptions continue to grow as Rochdale members demand action
Earthquakes and eruptions Recent SKWAWKBOX coverage of selection scandals in local Labour parties, with allegations of abuse of the rules and outright rigging made by left-wing members against entrenched right-wing […]
The rule-change campaign every left Labour member needs to support and promote
A new campaign has been launched to promote awareness of a vital rule-change that has been proposed by Labour International (LI) CLP (constituency Labour party) for a vote at Labour’s […]
Liverpool Riverside arranges AGM for Saturday of NHS march – to favour right?
Liverpool Riverside CLP (constituency Labour party) has a dire recent of right-wing machinations to keep a grip on the structures of the local party since the national resurgence of the […]
Urgent: CLP nominations for NEC – make sure to get yours in before deadline
Amid the local election campaigns, Windrush scandal and other issues going on, the NEC elections have fallen out of the eyeline of many Labour members, but they are no less […]
Video: big push for radical RMT to re-affiliate to Labour Party
The RMT (National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers) is widely recognised as one of the more radical – and rapidly growing – unions in the UK. In 2004, […]
W Mids Lab refuses selection rerun when over 50% of members present say their vote ignored
Last week the SKWAWKBOX reported exclusively on the suspension by the Labour Party of former Sandwell mayor Derek Rowley pending the investigation of alleged serious misconduct – and the complaints […]
JLM President’s CLP votes to affiliate to JVL. Chair resigns
Liverpool Riverside MP Lousie Ellman is president of the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), whose now-resigned chair Jeremy Newmark has attacked the new ‘Jewish Voice for Labour’ (JVL) group set up […]
Key Watson ally finally suspended from Labour, say Sandwell members
Derek Rowley, the Secretary of Labour’s Local Campaign Forum (LCF) in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell, has been the subject of serious allegations from Labour members and council employees […]