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 […]
Posts Tagged ‘Young Labour’
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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‘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 […]
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What happened to Young Labour’s ‘radical zeal’?
Oct 8th, 2012 by Conrad Landin.I was bewildered when there was at the Young Labour fringe event at party conference last Wednesday, there was no mention of the policies we had voted for.
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Young European Socialists point the way to a break with neo-liberalism
Jul 23rd, 2012 by Dominic Curran.Over the week of the 13th to the 20th of July, Young Labour and Labour Students attended the 10th summer camp of the European Council of Socialist Youth (ECOSY) in the coastal Camp Veli Joze, Savudrija, Croatia. Counting over forty people, it was the biggest delegation ever sent from Great Britain, up over one-thousand percent […]
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Youth Conference showed the next generation’s radical zeal
Jul 12th, 2012 by Rory Weal.Whilst disagreement and clashing opinions were rife at Young Labour Conference 2012, there is one thing that the 200 strong Conference can probably unanimously agree on: it certainly wasn’t dull. This Conference was the first of its kind; the first annual Young Labour Conference, the first time members got a direct say on policy, and […]
