Campaign news

Keep our NHS Public - Kill the Bill & Defend abortion rights

The Health and Social Care Bill will be returning to the House of Commons on 6th and 7th September for the Report Stage and Third Reading. This is when MPs vote on the amendments and vote the Bill through (or not) before it goes to the House of Lords). It is absolutely clear that we have to put pressure on MPs in their constituencies to demonstrate how the public want to reject this Bill, and will reject their MP at the next election if they vote for the Bill. Lobby your MP today to vote against the Bill. [continue...]

Contemporary motions for Labour Party conference

The LRC has prepared three draft contemporary motions ahead of Labour Party conference (25-29 September in Liverpool). You can download the model motions here: [continue...]

LRC supports mobilisation against the EDL

The LRC vehemently opposes the racism and bigotry that underpins groups like the EDL and the BNP, and postponed the date of our National Committee meeting in London to allow members to take part in the counter-mobilisation to the proposed EDL march in Tower Hamlets on 3 September. [continue...]

LRC statement: After the riots, resisting a reactionary backlash

A deeply reactionary furore has been whipped up by politicians and the media in response to the riots that swept London and other English towns and cities in early August. [continue...]

Statement on events in Tottenham and their context

In March Haringey Council approved cuts of £84 million from a total budget of £273 million. There was a savage 75% cut to the Youth Service budget, including: closing the youth centres; connexions careers advice service for young people reduced by 75%; and the children’s centre service reduced. Haringey has one of the highest numbers of children living in severe poverty, and unemployment in the borough is among the highest in the UK. In London as a whole, youth unemployment is at 23%. [continue...]

Hackgate: Corruption in media, government and police

The exposure of the phone hacking practices of the News of the World newspaper has opened a window on the corruption in the media, in government and in the police. The facts of these revelations have probably shocked few within the LRC and much of wider society, but they have exposed the corruption at the heart of these institutions more clearly than before, and have forced the resignations of senior figures in each. [continue...]