This motion has been drafted as a model motion to go to Labour Party conference 2021, but it can be tweaked for other purposes. Please note that this has to go through your branch first, then your CLP and needs to be submitted to the NEC by September 13 in order to be heard at Labour Party […]
Category: model motions
Statement & model motion: Solidarity with Howard Beckett!
Joint statement by Labour Against the Witchhunt, Labour Left Alliance, Labour in Exile Network, Rotherham Labour Left and Sheffield Labour Left. To add your organisation’s name, please email info@labouragainstthewitchhunt.org Solidarity with Howard Beckett!Nominate him in the UNITE general secretary elections! Of course Howard Beckett was not being racist when he sarcastically wrote that Priti Patel […]
Starmer and Rayner’s all-out war against the left: How we must organise now
No unity with the right! Time to organise for a real fight-back! Plan ahead and start organising shadow CLP structures! As if it wasn’t bad enough that Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner both spent the ‘International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians’ addressing a meeting of the Zionist Jewish Labour Movement, Starmer used the opportunity to […]
Free speech on Palestine!
Emergency motion to Labour Left Alliance conference submitted by Labour Against the Witchhunt Conference notes: 1) The circular emailed on August 12 2020 to Constituency Labour Parties by General Secretary David Evans, states that certain subjects are “not competent business for discussion by local parties” – including the so-called definition of antisemitism published by the […]
Model motion: No confidence in Keir Starmer! No more settlements with witch-hunters!
Download as a Word file here 1. This branch/CLP notes with great concern: a) Keir Starmer’s July 22 2020 apology and payment of ‘damages’ in six figures to the former Labour Party employees who participated in the dreadful and one-sided BBC Panorama programme on alleged antisemitism in the Labour Party. b) That the legal advice […]
Model motion: Suspension of two NEC candidates
Please continue to nominate Jo Bird for a seat on the NEC – she has had well over 100 nominations. Mo Azam has sadly withdrawn. Model motion: Suspension of two NEC candidates This CLP calls upon General Secretary, Jennie Formby, to immediately suspend the nominations process for CLP NEC representatives, until the investigations into the […]
Model motions: Reject the 10 Pledges by the Board of Deputies
Please click here for some advice on how to move a motion or emergency motion in the Labour Party. LAW model motion 1) This branch/CLP notes: That all candidates standing for the position of Labour leader have signed up to the 10 Pledges issued by the Board of Deputies, including Rebecca Long-Bailey. That the BoD […]
Successful CLP motion passed in support of Chris Williamson
PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO BAN ON MOVING MOTIONS IN SUPPORT OF CHRIS: We hear that, again, in a number of branches and CLPs, the chair has prevented the meeting from discussing motions in support of Chris because of apparent guidelines sent out by Labour HQ. Labour Against the Witchhunt have produced detailed advice to show that this […]
Resolutions, statements and quotes in support of Chris Williamson MP
So far, at least 29 CLPs, 9 Momentum branches and dozens of trade union bodies and left Labour organisations have come out in solidarity with Chris Williamson MP (we know of couple of other CLPs where it was decided not to publish the successful resolution). Each CLP has an average of 800 members, so you […]
Model motions on Chris Williamson’s court case and new suspension
Here are a number of motions currently going forward in various branches and CLPs. Feel free to chop and change. PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO BAN ON MOVING MOTIONS IN SUPPORT OF CHRIS: We hear that, again, in a number of branches and CLPs, the chair has prevented the meeting from discussing motions in support of Chris […]
Model motions protesting against Chris Williamson’s re-suspension
Labour Against the Witchhunt We believe that the renewed suspension of Chris Williamson MP is a travesty of justice. We are particularly concerned that Keith Vaz’ U-turn seems to have been motivated purely by the pressure coming from the right inside and outside the party. Sadly but unsurprisingly, that now includes Jon Lansman. We presume […]
How to use the new trigger ballot to deselect your MP
Labour Party conference 2018 voted to introduce two separate trigger ballots: one for all the Labour branches of a CLP, another one for all local affiliates (trade unions, socialist societies, cooperative organisations). Here is how it works (please note that CLPs are still awaiting written guidelines – though MPs seem to have been sent a […]
Model motion: Reinstate Pete Willsman!
This branch/CLP notes: On May 31, Labour Party NEC member Peter Willsman was put under “administrative suspension” after he was secretly recorded by the Israeli-American author Tuvia Tenenbom. The audio was recorded in January 2019, but leaked to the press over five months later, no doubt to coincide with a new hotting up in the […]
Model motion: Implement the reformed trigger ballot
Model motion: Implement the reformed trigger ballot This branch/CLP notes: Labour Party conference 2018 voted to reform the trigger ballot, which is currently the only way in which Labour Party members can exercise some democratic control over their parliamentary representative. This was moved by the NEC as part of the ‘democracy review’ and thereby superseded […]