The rule that shadow cabinet MPs could not be group members caused difficulties, and this rule was removed, allowing the group to recover to 23 members by 2019.[28]. Diane Abbott is the Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. The right of free speech and assembly, the entrenchment of civil liberties and human rights and the right to organise voluntary associations and free trade unions for the purpose of protecting and improving the prospects for those who belong to them, and in particular, the right to withdraw labour as a means of securing justice. pic.twitter.com/qhuovdGVSI, Socialist Campaign Group (@socialistcam) November 4, 2020, Diane Abbott MP As we can all see thats been a rip-roaring success. Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the "socialistcampaigngroup" Flickr tag. The right to expect that any government in power will work for peace and justice, and will not provoke international conflict or hostility or divert resources from essential purposes to build up the weapons of mass destruction. 28 Socialist Campaign Group MPs urge reversal of Corbyn - LabourList The right of everyone to receive an income sufficient to maintain a decent standard of living. While all around you crumbles to dust. In May that year, largely thanks to Unite's new political strategy, a small group of young socialist MPs, including Clive Lewis, Richard Burgon, and Rebecca Long-Bailey, were elected, countering the trend of an ageing and diminishing Parliamentary left. [9], In 2005, Blair's government announced plans to encourage every school to become an independent self-governing trust. Starmer announced on Wednesday morning that he would not restore the party whip, however, due he said to Corbyns response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission report on Labour antisemitism. A caucus of eleven new left Labour MPs and an MSP from the Socialist Campaign Group (SCG) of left-wing Labour MPs have agreed to set up a separate group with its own funding, priorities and at least one staff member. After all there is already a report being prepared. However, many of these references are either misquoted or based on outdated science and the many, newer peer-reviewed studies are either misrepresented or not referenced at all. Below is the full text of the Socialist Campaign Group statement and its signatories. "[16], Blair's strategist Peter Mandelson reportedly described wanting the parliamentary left to become a sealed tomb. As soon as it became clear that John Smith was the front runner, more and more MPs simply jumped on his bandwagon. [45] However, although Meacher gave his support to McDonnell following Blair's resignation not all of his supporters switched allegiance, leaving McDonnell short of the nominations required and leading to Gordon Brown becoming leader unopposed. Rebecca Long-Bailey MP If you wish to receive more information, fill in the form below. Nadia is the Labour MP for Nottingham East, and a former care worker. Not sure why they would set up a new group though ..? Socialist Labour MPs demand Ken Loach is immediately reinstated to the It got posted on the next report too. Although Blair was able to win these votes with the support of Conservative MPs, 139 Labour MPs voted against his plans for war, one of the largest rebellions ever seen in the Commons. The Campaign Group backed Eric Heffer and Michael Meacher in their unsuccessful bids for the leadership and deputy leadership in 1983. Brilliant contribution my friend, cheers. He wrote: Thanks to the intervention of one man who could have avoided his inevitable suspension for denialism and questioning the reports legally enforceable findings, we are discussing him and not the impact on us.. [9] Socialist Campaign Group MPs made up a significant number of these including Tony Benn, who gave his full support to the campaign and spoke at the 200,000 strong anti-Poll Tax demonstration in Trafalgar Square,[11] and Jeremy Corbyn who appeared at Highbury Magistrates' Court in 1991 for not paying his poll tax bill of 481. So when the left have nowhere else to go, but are pulling support from the party in their droves, ask yourself, what would Mandelson do? Thanks. He doesnt care coz hes well minted and it doesnt affect his life. It quickly became clear that the 20% nomination threshold risked eliminating all candidates except Smith: "The '20 per cent' rule was introduced in 1989 specifically to exclude the Campaign Group the left from future leadership elections. Absolutely pathetic from a bunch of cowards. It will be interesting who turns up for the Commemoration. The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs on the party's left wing have issued a statement calling for the reversal of the decision taken by Keir Starmer not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. [68][69] Both were defeated by Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner respectively.[70]. So and do feel free to correct me if Im wrong theyre basically paying for this group on expenses? Is that a genuine hope of just a way to have a dig at the SCG? Thanks for reminding us why this new group needs our active support. After all the leader will be handing out front bench appointments for the rest of this Parliament! Corbyn spoke at 15 rallies from London to Hastings to Aberdeen, reached more than 10 million people with his Remain messages on social media, made six statements in the Commons and put forward Remain arguments during interviews on Sky, BBC, ITV and Channel 4. If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so seeherefor more. The SCG statement comes as Keir Starmer heard warnings at a meeting with Jewish community groups on Wednesday that the actions of leading figures on the left and within the trade union movement risked hindering his attempt to win back trust. Sorry comrades to be so harsh but with the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, Right Wing Tory Authoritarianism and War mongering we dont have the time for Left Wing Labour to turn things around or the Lefts CUSTERS LAST STAND! Labour councillor joins 'from the river to sea' chant at event with Is not Starmer doing both with HQ staff? I smell a Rat..even from 8ooo miles away! NVLA..Shes a stunner but they all like to play Hollywood in the USA.Now in dear old blighty its playing kings and queens and lords and ladys with Knights of the realm..ITs all theatre and not worth the price of a ticket.so sad . Of those involved in the new group, only one appears to have publicly expressed support for Jeremy Corbyn though that one was after the result of the Labour NECs vote on whether to reinstate Corbyn to the Labour benches was already known. https://endfrozenpensions.org/ If you care share. MS by Michael Segalov,. Jon Trickett MP Members of the Campaign Group have been the first to be at the forefront of mass campaigns on trade union rights, private equity, council housing, public services and against the war We consistently raise uncomfortable issues and support campaigns that no other parliamentarians will touch, on issues like asylum, deportations, international trade union and human rights, campaigns for those killed or injured at work, safety of vulnerable workers, including sex workers, cuts in legal aid and English for speakers of other languages funding. With prices rising every year Ill be lucky to live the rest of my retirement in dignity. It is the funds from hidden and unknown sources which 13 May 2020. For 54 years Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem have been illegally occupied by Israel. [2] Corbyn was immediately nominated by Campaign Group MPs including John McDonnell (who became chair of his campaign), Diane Abbott, Ronnie Campbell, Kelvin Hopkins, Michael Meacher, Dennis Skinner, Richard Burgon, Clive Lewis and Cat Smith. The right to receive the best possible medical care, free, and at the moment of need. who set such a brilliant example of pretending to be one thing Co-Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. Our preference is likely for a new legal structure if Lloyd is able to administer but wed likeopinions on this. So, each Campaign Group member agreed to buy one set of bolt-cutters and donate to the Greenham Women. [39] Rules introduced following Tony Benn's 1988 leadership challenge meant that candidates would have to secure nominations from 55 MPs to make it onto the ballot paper. [67] Campaign Group members Rebecca Long-Bailey and Richard Burgon ran for leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party respectively. But Its not very polite. been left wing in the slightest. [65], On 24 September 2016, Corbyn was re-elected Leader of the Labour Party in another landslide victory, increasing his share of the vote from 59.5% to 61.8%. After all our money is being used to support (Follow MPs who are members here: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1220096981848162305 London, England socialistcampaigngroup.com Joined April 2019 Tweets 2021 Twitter About Help Center Terms Privacy policy The statement referred to the views of the leaders of seven trade unions, in which the heads of the Labour-affiliated organisations expressed serious concerns about the manner of and rationale for suspension of the former party leader. Mobilise the energy of the multi-generational, multi-racial, class-based movement - brought into the Labour Party by Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership - to effect real political change and achieve socialism in our lifetime. Hes alright, too. This campaign had no support at all from the Labour Party at a national level, no official party rallies being organised, and those who rallied were singled out for disciplinary action, many being expelled from the party just because they were active in the movement, and some prospective local and parliamentary candidates were refused endorsement by the NEC merely for their principled refusal to pay."[14]. Delusional is a serious mental illness and shouldnt be funded by sane people when this lot will be unemployed in eighteen months time.. The right to life, free from fear, oppression, ignorance, preventable ill-health or poverty. First published in March 1986,[73] Socialist Campaign Group News was the monthly magazine of the Campaign Group. Also not on the list was Clive Lewis MP, who last week appeared to agree with journalist Rachel Shabi that Corbyns comments were ill-advised, to put it mildly and that it is beyond frustrating to see Labour yet again descend into factionalism over this [antisemitism] issue and thus torpedo the EHRC report. The latest manufactured 'outrage' of the Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership Council concerns Labour MPs Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Diane Abbott. There must have been terabytes of digital files landing in Fordes Reject the Board of Deputies 10 Pledges - Change.org The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. Some activists have been campaigning for this to end for over 20 years. When the result of the referendum was announced Corbyn's opponents on the right and centre of the Parliamentary Labour Party sought to trigger a leadership election on the grounds that they did not think he had campaigned sufficiently vigorously for Remain. This sowed the seeds for a split in the left between a "soft left" supportive of Foot's leadership and a dissenting "hard left" organised principally around Benn. Uncategorized | Tendance Coatesy | Page 6 She is a member of the far right Democratic party, a party born out of slave owners and has never from its birth ever ever! [74], As of 2008 the editorial board was Jim Mortimer (chair), Diane Abbott MP, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Anni Marjoram, Bill Michie MP and Pete Willsman. Since then, three (3) more similarly robust US Government funded studies (Bashash, 2018, Green, 2019 and Till 2020) have been published. I will keep this situation under review.. Thats a sign of a lightweight. The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs on the partys left wing have issued a statement calling for the reversal of the decision taken by Keir Starmer not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. Distasteful might have been better. But the strategy document also makes clear that the new group, which sees itself as modelled on The Squad of Democrat lawmakers in the US, sees itself trying to pressure Keir Starmer from off and on his front bench, in other words working alongside Starmer and trying to steer him, rather than resist or remove him, listing among its tactical approaches: Media interventions by backbenchers to push the Labour frontbench to take moreprogressive positions An insider strategy within Labour frontbench teams for left-wing MPs who are alsofrontbenchers. They couldnt give a fuck. The way to operate in the UK is for them to be active in extra-parliamentary campaigns and the trade union movement. Tahir Ali MP Can I ask you why you think hes a Socialist? To avoid this party officials changed the rules mid-contest, at the suggestion of Gould, to allow MPs who had already nominated a candidate to withdraw and support another instead. the police must have known what was going on at the time. Dan Carden MP [31][32], Tony Benn could not stand because he was not currently in Parliament at the time, having just lost his seat. Corbyn's opponents in the National Executive Committee were alleged by Robert Peston to have sought to "fix"[65] the result by increasing the fee for becoming a registered supporter from 3 to 25 and excluding from voting the 130,000 new members who had joined in the previous 6 months. Hope Im not proved wrong. People are getting wise to the Establishment liar. Socialist Campaign Group urges Labour to reinstate Ken Loach [58] Analysis from academics at Loughborough University found that the BBC had excluded Labour voices during the campaign and instead covered the campaign as a Conservative Party civil war.[59][60]. TWT22 // Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs Rally Borax is used allot in blacksmithing as well to help forge welding or joining 2 bits of usually steel especially in Damacus or pattern weald steel for knives and other sharp stabby stuff to stop oxygen messing up the weald. Kate Osborne MP [23], The Coalition organised what is widely thought to be the largest demonstration in British history, when on 15 February 2003, over a million people[24] marched against the War in Iraq. If anything. Eleven Labour MPs and Jeremy Corbyn backed a Stop the War campaign . Until that is done the Gulf War will be the first of many such wars where Western countries declare war on Third World countries, allegedly for reasons of international law but in reality for an unjust economic order and against people attempting to claim their right to self-determination like the Kurds. The SCG statement describing the reinstatement of Corbyn as correct and the continued suspension of the party whip as wrong and damaging has 32 signatories, including 27 Labour MPs plus Claudia Webbe. ", "CHILD BENEFIT FOR LONE PARENTS (Hansard, 10 December 1997)", "Where the Socialist Campaign Group should go next for a unified left", "A World to Win | Review | Books | Beyond New Labour", "John McDonnell withdraws from Labour leadership race in favour of Diane Abbott", "Diane Abbott makes it on to Labour leadership ballot", "Leadership MPs and MEPs | The Labour Party", "THE COLLINS REVIEW INTO LABOUR PARTY REFORM", "Corbyn sets up clash with Cameron over Europe", "Beckett: I was moron to nominate Corbyn", "Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn elected with huge mandate", "Did Jeremy Corbyn really give 122 speeches during the EU referendum campaign? They will not rest until the Labour Party has been purged of all traces of socialism. This seems like a document which was submitted to the Forde The book is premised on two interdependent theses: first, that 'Corbynism' was the product of social-movement politics outside the Labour Party; second, that its decline was set in motion by its drift away from those same social movements. Three candidates sought nominations: John Smith, the favourite, regarded as being "from the right" of the party, Bryan Gould, from the "centre-left" and Ken Livingstone, the Campaign Group candidate. Combat medals without taking part, Tory Rory here in the UK is similar. One member of the group told Skwawkbox that setting it up did not constitute a split of the the existing left MPs group, but did not respond when asked to confirm that this meant there was no intention to leave the SCG. Rebecca Long-Bailey is MP for Salford and Eccles and former Shadow Secretary of State for Education. Ian Byrne MP True enough. Why would you follow AOC FGS? No further words are needed. [36] The scale of this defeat was a surprise to Benn, in particular the decline in support from CLPs since the 1983 election, and strengthened Kinnock's position, which he used to take the party further towards centrism. If you dont care, please let me know why. In a document shared following a meeting of the group on Wednesday evening, the left Labour MPs urged members dismayed by the suspension to stay and fight for his reinstatement and for the policies for the many not the few. The result, boosted by a higher than expected turnout despite the coronavirus pandemic, comes as a surprise after the Socialists had lost most of their advantage in recent opinion polls, and means Portugal will have a stable government to oversee the application of EU pandemic recovery funds. In October, the Socialist Campaign Group produced a pamphlet called "Winning the Future", which proposed solutions to the COVID-19 crisis.[30]. socialistcampaigngroup photos on Flickr | Flickr Nadia Whittome MP Thanks for your solidarity so SKWAWKBOX can keep doing its job. [25] These plans were described as intending to "all but abolish local authority involvement in state schools" and Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott argued that it would "condemn a generation of poorer children to ghettos of collapsing schools". The February 1988 edition of Campaign Group News included "The Aims and Objectives of the Labour Party" a statement agreed by the Campaign Group of Labour MPs and circulated "to provide a focus for political discussion and education within the party and to be the basis of our long-term political work". Reiterating that Corbyns EHRC reaction undermined Labours ability to tackle antisemitism, the leader said: I have taken the decision not to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn. Socialist Campaign Group MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Dan Carden - have spoken at a rally in Liverpool at which an elected local councillor was filmed joining in with a chant from the crowd of "From the river to sea - Palestine will be free.". More than 80,000/pa and theyre skimming money from their training budgets (which surely is meant for training) to fund this? Starmer is not for turning, so what do they have in their armoury to force him too? And the group sees its identity as new left, presumably to separate itself from the old left of union activism and a focus on the working class: Who are we? A group of 11 new left MPs and an MSP. In order to be part of the organising space for decision making in phase one you mustagree to the principles above and make a monetary contribution towards its organisation. The right to equality of treatment under just laws, free from all discrimination based upon class, sex, race, life-style or beliefs. Good luck, now let's organise! The right to a good home for all in which to live, bring up children and care for all dependents. Conrad Landin, Selective History Sidecar Jeremy Corbyn, Labour MP for Islington North and for many years Campaign Group Secretary, remarked that the group was the biggest job creation scheme in the Palace of Westminster. The "Zero-Covid" campaign by Britain's pseudo-left: a political cover These schools would, like academies, determine their own curriculum and ethos, appoint the governing body, control their own assets, employ their own staff and set their own admissions policy. Obviously not the ones paid a 600,000 bonus for screwing Corbyn. In one hilarious meeting [of the Socialist Campaign Group], the Greenham [Common] Women addressed us.