Last Thursday I attended a charity gig run by students from my school. It was a great event: young bands from the local area showcased their talent and the audience was largely made up of fellow pupils – many of whom had recently reached, or were close to reaching voting age. It came as no [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Young Labour’
Young Labour activists call on MPs to defend the right to strike
Mar 19th, 2013 by Newsdesk.The following is a statement signed by Young Labour activists – including London Young Labour chair Hazel Nolan and members of the Young Labour National Committee (see below). The Crime and Courts bill currently approaching its’ third reading in parliament, contains legislation (clauses 12 and 13) proposing to abolish the right to take industrial action [...]
Back Olivia Blake for Labour national executive youth place
Feb 25th, 2013 by Olivia Blake.My name is Olivia and I am standing to be NEC youth representative because I feel strongly about youth issues that can be addressed by the party. I believe Labour should be offering a real alternative for young people and it is my conviction to make sure this comes from us. I am a 22 [...]
Left surge forward in Young Labour – but more at stake this weekend
Feb 25th, 2013 by Keith Wright.For the past month, Young Labour members have been voting for their representatives on the youth section’s supposed ruling body – the Young Labour National Committee. When the ballots opened, I did some analysis of who could be considered left candidates, and who would be worth supporting. The results are now in for the regional [...]
Young Labour should set its sights higher
Feb 3rd, 2013 by Michael Hanratty.Exceptional things happen under the most adverse of economic circumstances. It’s an oft-told tale in the North East of the humble, unemployed men of Jarrow taking their crusade on foot three hundred miles to London in the 1930s. Not specifically to argue about the conditions of the working the man, or to argue about the [...]
The cost of Young Labour democracy: £30 per person per night
Jan 31st, 2013 by Caroline Hill.Every year the monster of getting as many members as possible to a conference rears its ugly and expensive head. Hundreds of 14 to 26 year-old members will be heading to Leicester in March for Labour’s Youth Conference, but it’s not really a question of “is there any room at the inn?” Instead, “There’s very [...]
Young Labour: who are the left candidates?
Jan 23rd, 2013 by Keith Wright.At Europe-wide conventions of socialist youth organisations, Britain’s Young Labour was known until recently as “the Blair witch project”. Since the organisation replaced the Militant-dominated Labour Party Young Socialists in 1992, it has been dominated by those on the hard right of the party, maintained by a culture of fixing and until a few years [...]
Young Labour conference: potentially unaffordable under new structure
Oct 30th, 2012 by Conrad Landin.What sort of people should be attending Young Labour conference? The answer should be obvious: the sort of people who make up the next generation of society. At some point next year – it was February two years ago, and could well be February again – Young Labour activists will flock to a corner of [...]
Let’s make Young Labour accountable
Oct 23rd, 2012 by Conrad Landin.As elections for the national committee of Young Labour loom on the horizon, young members will be asking: what did they ever do for us? You might think this unfair. It’s possible that the committee members work very hard (I know, in fact, of a number that do.) But with no accountability and no sense [...]
‘Openness’ critical for Young Labour to be a cohesive force
Oct 9th, 2012 by Tom King.Recently, Conrad Landin wrote of how some of the boldest and most radical policies passed at Young Labour conference seemed to have disappeared into a policy making abyss. At a time, coming out of a successful conference, when our party has never been so united and when our people are under attack from this vicious Tory [...]
