The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD) has announced the bill for its upcoming fringe events during the party conference season.
CLPD works to support grassroots activity and party democracy – and supporting ordinary delegates at conferences is a key part of this. The events also provide an opportunity to discuss the future potential for greater democracy in the Labour party, as well as wider issues within the party and labour movement.
You have only four weeks left to submit motions to Labour’s annual conference in Manchester which starts on 30 September. The deadline for submission is 12 noon on Friday 21 September (here’s the letter inviting them). We set out below some draft motions which have been proposed by CLPD and Labour CND which you may find useful and can be downloaded. This is one of the few opportunities that constituencies have to influence the Conference agenda and thus the Party’s policy making so don’t lose it, even if that’s what the party bureaucracy still seem to prefer.
In spite of all the kerfuffle over Refounding Labour, the rules on what you can and can’t propose remain absurdly restictive: Continue reading
