Labour debunks ‘elitist donor’ claim
Right-wing ‘Labour’ sites have claimed that Labour has resurrected Tony Blair’s ‘Thousand Club’ and that this is because the party’s finances are less healthy than they have been since the […]
Tag Archives: grassroots
Yesterday’s total votes per slate and independents tell a story
The Labour left is still celebrating – and Labour right still recriminating – over the clean sweep yesterday for the grassroots-left slate of nine candidates for Labour’s National Executive Committee […]
Video: OFOC’s Milligan claims Corbyn-supporter status on #BBCDP. Really?
Anti-Brexit OFOC’s (Our Future Our Choice) Tess Milligan appeared on the BBC’s Daily Politics today in a debate with Novara’s Aaron Bastani about the company’s – or ‘grassroots movement’, depending […]
Excl: Webbe & Lansman ‘we will serve full 2-year NEC terms’
Momentum founder Jon Lansman and NEC member Claudia Webbe are among the nine candidates for Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) on the ‘grassroots left’ ‘slate’ – the nine candidates endorsed […]
LRC endorses Formby for Labour #JenSec. Urges Lansman to withdraw
The LRC (Labour Representation Committee) is one of the most venerable left-wing Labour organisations and plays an important role in composing the ‘grassroots left’ slates of candidates for important Labour […]
Grassroots Black Left parliamentary launch; co-founder crowdfunds Labour suspension fight
Grassroots Black Left, a group for left-wing “African, Caribbean and Asian people and their allies who give critical support to the progressive Jeremy Corbyn Labour leadership” formed in autumn 2017, […]
SKWAWKBOX 2017 in review: exclusives, narratives, impact and more
It’s been quite a year. At the beginning of 2017, the SKWAWKBOX was a relatively unknown publication that had made enough splashes since its reboot in late summer 2016 to […]
Excl: Lab MP emails members re vote for Izzard – who gave £36k to her office costs
Lucy Powell is the Labour MP for Manchester Central. She recently featured prominently in the BBC documentary Labour: The Summer that Changed Everything, which was originally meant to be an autopsy […]
Ballots arrive from tomorrow. Register your support at yourlabournec.co.uk
Ballots start to go out from tomorrow for the crucial election of three additional representatives on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC). Labour’s grassroots-left slate of Yasmine Dar, Rachel Garnham and […]
Labour First: ‘independent’ slate will ‘determine control’ of NEC
Right-wing Labour factions Progress and Labour First continue to insist that the candidates they are backing for the vital three additional places on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC ) – […]