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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In January, Tory MP James Morris secured a Commons debate on alleged ‘incompetence and corruption’ of the Labour council in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell. In isolation, Morris’ claims […]
Labour members in Southampton Itchen CLP (constituency Labour party) have contacted the SKWAWKBOX with concerns about the fairness of the process for shortlisting applicants to be their PPC (prospective parliamentary […]
Union Unite’s ‘West Midlands Political Conference’ takes place tomorrow at West Brom football club’s ground. Gerard Coyne, who unsuccessfully challenged Len McCluskey for the union’s General Secretary position last year […]
Self-described ‘hack’ Michael White had an ‘open mouth insert foot’ moment this week when he tried to defend, on Twitter, ridiculous complaints of a ‘Momentum purge’ in the London borough […]
Shaz Saleem, described in local press as a ‘high-profile Labour campaigner’, was dissatisfied with Labour’s standing as an actual alternative to the Conservatives – so he defected to the Tories […]