Right will immediately start disempowering members if it wins The news that party chair and ex-miner Ian Lavery will not be standing in the Labour leadership contest has triggered a […]
Organisation often presented as representative has only few hundred members eligible to vote – and many university Labour societies have disaffiliated from it in disgust A short video has been […]
Welsh Labour has ‘gone OMOV’ (one member one vote) for the election of its leader, after conference delegates in Cardiff voted with an overall 64.1% in favour (weighted percentages). 35.9% […]
Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones has announced that he is standing down in the autumn. This should open the door for a left-wing leader to take over and begin […]
One unwanted side-effect of the battle between Julie Morgan and Carolyn Harris for the new position of Welsh Labour deputy leader has been the suspension of three officials of the […]
The Labour Party in Wales is in the middle of a historic campaign to elect its first ever deputy leader. Both of the candidates are women, both from the broad […]
Labour’s NEC (National Executive Committee) ‘away day’ meeting in Glasgow last Sunday agreed that the selection of the Young Labour representative on the NEC would be democratised – switching to […]
Last month, the SKWAWKBOX revealed an anti-democratic move to disenfranchise huge numbers of ‘Young Labour’ (YL) members by imposing an ‘electoral college’ delegate system on YL’s annual conference. The change […]
On Tuesday this week, Labour’s NEC (National Executive Committee) met. Tucked away on the fourth of five pages of a report of the meeting by an NEC member is an […]
Labour First’s email to its mailing list shows clearly that while Labour’s leadership focuses on the task of toppling a Tory government that can only prop itself up using the […]