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 Elections to the National Executive Committee 2002
These candidates are supported by Labour Reform, the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, Labour Women’s Action Committee, Labour Black Representation Committee, Campaign for Socialism (Scotland), Network of Socialist Campaign Groups, Chartist, Labour Left Briefing and Socialist Campaign Group News.
NEC candidates need nominations from their own CLP and from constituencies in at least two other party regions.
Tribune’s editorial welcomed this initiative: ‘The point is to mount a credible challenge to those forces within the party leadership who wish to further downgrade internal democracy and to ensure that the left and centre-left wins as large a presence as possible within the NEC.’
www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/0203/page11.htm   (179 words)

  
 National Executive Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Executive Committee or NEC is the chief administrative body of the Labour Party.
"Chairman of the Labour Party" until 2001; "Chairman of the NEC" from 2001 after Tony Blair appointed Charles Clarke to the courtesy position of "Party Chairman" without the NEC authorising such a position [1].
During the 1980s, the NEC had a major role in policy-making and was often at the heart of vitriolic disputes over party policy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Executive_Committee   (257 words)

  
 National Executive Committee: The Labour Party: securing Britain's future
The National Executive Committee is the governing body of the Labour Party that oversees the overall direction of the party and the policy-making process.
The NEC also has a number of specialist committees and task groups and is responsible for upholding the rules of the party and propriety of Labour selection processes.
Throughout the year, NEC members participate with government ministers in Labour Party policy commissions that prepare reports on different areas of policy which are then presented to and consulted on with the party membership before going to annual conference.
www.labour.org.uk /nec   (274 words)

  
 Labour Party NEC Elections 1999
======================================================================== NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE DIVISION II (Socialist Societies) * Dianne HAYTER unopposed ======================================================================== NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE DIVISION III (Constituency Labour Parties) Each Labour Party member has one vote.
The Labour Party Elections 1999 An asterisk (*) denotes an elected candidate, and an exclamation mark (!) denotes an incumbent.
======================================================================== LEADER *!Tony BLAIR returned automatically (1998: *Blair returned automatically) ======================================================================== DEPUTY LEADER *!John PRESCOTT returned automatically (1998: *Prescott returned automatically) ======================================================================== TREASURER *!Margaret PROSSER unopposed (1998: Prosser unopposed) ======================================================================== NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DIVISION I (Trade Unions) [Twelve seats] Each Trade Union member has twelve votes.
www.election.demon.co.uk /nec99.html   (134 words)

  
 The Labour Party - Northern Ireland - - Labour Party co-opts Langhammer to NEC
In a move which strongly indicates the Labour Party's openness to the evolution of new directions in Northern Ireland, Mark Langhammer (Chair of the Labour Forum, the party's Branch in Northern Ireland) has been selected to join the Labour governing body, the National Executive Committee.
Labour Party co-opts Langhammer to National Executive Committee
Langhammer was prominent in lobbying for the change to the Labour Party constitution to allow northern members to join in 2003, and became Chair of the northern branch - the Northern Ireland Labour Forum - set up in October 2004.
www.labour.ie /northernireland/june2005a.html   (134 words)

  
 Marxist Bulletin: National Executive Committee Election Statement
We are standing for election to the NEC on the basis of the politics outlined in the Marxist Bulletin as codified in the programme printed overleaf and on our record as activists in the Socialist Labour Party since it was established.
There are a number of comrades standing for election who, like us, have signed the ‘Statement to the NEC and SLP Members on the Question of Party Democracy’.
The NEC came up with an election programme that was reformist and did not point a road forward to working class power by fudging every question where the continuing role of the capitalist state was posed.
www.bolshevik.org /mb/5nec.htm   (856 words)

  
 Labour Party election manifesto, February 1974
This Manifesto was published by the Labour Party National Executive Committee and Parliamentary Committee on 11 January last.
The Labour Party is proud of the contribution we made to the nation's salvation at critical times in our history, and it is in the same mood that we approach the interlocking crises of the 1970s.
That is the essence of the new social contract which the Labour Party has discussed at length and agreed with the TUC and which must take its place as a central feature of the new economic policy of a Labour Government.
www.psr.keele.ac.uk /area/uk/man/lab74feb.htm   (4315 words)

  
 Labour Left Briefing - Labour Party National Executive Committee
Read Christine Shawcroft's reports of meetings of the Labour Party National Executive Committee.
Labour Left Briefing - Labour Party National Executive Committee
Christine Shawcroft has been re-elected to the NEC with the backing of the Grassroots Alliance.
www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk /nec.html   (50 words)

  
 NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
The NEC meeting noted the request of Sinn Fein and the British Labour Party to assist in facilitating implementation of the agreement on Northern Ireland.
The National Executive confirmed the appointment of the following NEC members to full-time positions at ANC Headquarters:
The NEC extends its support to the preparations for the reburial in Port Elizabeth on 26th June of Vuyisile Mini and his five comrades, Kayinge, Mkaba, Jonas, Mpentse and Ndongeni.
www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/pr/1998/pr0426.html   (853 words)

  
 Labour Left Briefing - Labour Party National Executive Committee
Read Christine Shawcroft's reports of meetings of the Labour Party National Executive Committee.
Labour Left Briefing - Labour Party National Executive Committee
Christine Shawcroft has been re-elected to the NEC with the backing of the Grassroots Alliance.
www.labourleftbriefing.org.uk /nec.html   (50 words)

  
 House of Commons - Scottish Affairs - Minutes of Evidence
The Scottish Labour Party administers the Labour Party in Scotland on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
Those parts of Party administration which apply only in Scotland are administrated by the Scottish Executive Committee in liaison with the National Executive Committee.
The Scottish Executive Committee of the Labour Party discussed the size of the Scottish Parliament, in light of the Secretary of State's consultation, at its meeting on 9 March 2002.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmscotaf/77/3110402.htm   (370 words)

  
 Marxism and the British Labour Party
NEC: National Executive Committee of the Labour Party
NCC: National Constitutional Committeethe Labour Party body that carried out expulsions
NEB — National editorial Board - was the annually elected National Committee of the Militant.
www.marxist.net /openturn/main/abbreviations.htm   (370 words)

  
 Contemporary resolutions for Labour Party Conference 2000
This conference is concerned that the National Executive Committee at its meeting on 25 July did not resolve to abandon the tripartite electoral college arrangement in the context of the selection of mayoral candidates in major cities.
Conference recalls that our 1999 conference reaffirmed the principle that ‘pensioners should share fairly in the rising prosperity of the nation’ but did not restore the link between the basic state pension and average earnings on the grounds that they should be part of a wider ‘national debate on the future of the welfare state’.
Conference welcomes the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly which calls for full and strict compliance with the ABM Treaty, and wholeheartedly concurs with the statement of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that ‘the growing pressure to deploy national missile defences...
www.poptel.org.uk /scgn/articles/0009/page11.htm   (1127 words)

  
 Microtext Collections in the History of Great Britain
Minutes and agenda books of the National Executive Committee from the foundation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 through its name change to The Labour Party to the end of 195l.
Many of the same issues were discussed at this congress and the Labour Party Conferences (see MFM 774 above).
Founded in 1906, the Women's Labour League was a broadly based feminist pressure group in England drawing members and support from the Labour Party, Trade Unions, and similar organizations.
www.mtsu.edu /~library/microtxt/grbrit.html   (1677 words)

  
 Guardian TV actor takes Labour to task
Tony Robinson - Baldrick in the TV comedy series Blackadder and a Labour activist for 20 years - was yesterday catapulted on to Labour's national executive committee, and promptly denounced the instinctive control freaks threatening party democracy.
He said that the decision on the NEC by seven votes to five to block the chairman of the National Organisation of Labour Students, Joe Goldberg, from standing again epitomised a mentality that had to stop.
Blackadder's Baldrick wins grassroots seat on party's national executive committee and lays into Millbank's 'dinosaur tendency'
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4021526-103685,00.html   (1677 words)

  
 National Executive Committee: The Labour Party: securing Britain's future
The National Executive Committee is the governing body of the Labour Party that oversees the overall direction of the party and the policy-making process.
The NEC also has a number of specialist committees and task groups and is responsible for upholding the rules of the party and propriety of Labour selection processes.
All members of the NEC are members of the National Policy Forum.
www.labour.org.uk /nec   (264 words)

  
 Constituency Labour Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The CLP selects the local Labour Party candidate for a national parliamentary General Election, although the National Executive Committee has powers to overrule this decision in certain circumstances, which has on occasion proved controversial.
A Constituency Labour Party ('CLP') is an organisation of members of the British Labour Party who live in a particular parliamentary constituency in England, Scotland and Wales.
For much of Labour history, including during the 1980s, CLPs were perceived as the more leftwing faction in the Labour Party, with the unions being a more moderate or pragmatic force.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constituency_Labour_Party   (331 words)

  
 Red Pepper archive
A committee drawn from the National and Scottish Executive Committees is compiling a list from amongst panel members for that section of the Scottish Parliament to be elected by proportional representation.
The danger for the party leadership is of a powerful Scottish Labour Party emerging as a bailiwick of the left which would act as a rallying-point for dissenting elements in the party as a whole.
The Scottish Labour Party is seething with dissent ö all because of the system devised to choose candidates for the new parliament.
www.redpepper.org.uk /cularch/XNEC.HTML   (331 words)

  
 Features - Organisations - Scottish National Party
Annual Conference is the supreme governing body of the Party and elects the National Executive Committee, the leadership of the Party, which deals with the day-to-day running of its affairs.
Branches are the backbone of the Scottish National Party.
By 1934 the National Party had amalgamated with the smaller Scottish Party to form the Scottish National Party (the name was not commonly abbreviated to the SNP until the 1960s).
www.scotsindependent.org /features/orgs/snp.htm   (2110 words)

  
 You are in the company of   Roger Warren Evans
Constituency Labour Parties, National Executive Committee, Party Conference - the lot - they were all there then, and they remain.
Solicitor Peter Fitzgerald and I argue for the creation, within the framework of the present Labour Party Constitution (by conventional amendment), of a binary Party structure.
Party Conferences would also become the territory of the Party in the country, without imposed intervention of any kind by
www.rwevans.co.uk /~r/rwevans/wevansnet05/item0056B.htm   (2110 words)

  
 l02.html
National Executive Committee Minutes of the Labour Representation Committee, 1900-06, and the Labour Party since 1906.
www.lib.auburn.edu /madd/docs/test/l02.html   (16 words)

  
 HRI/CORE/1/Add.64 - Core Document - Barbados
The Democratic Labour Party was formed in the 1950s as an offshoot of the BLP, and in 1989, the National Democratic Party was formed as an offshoot of the Democratic Labour Party.
Section 35 of the Constitution states: "There shall be a Parliament of Barbados which shall consist of Her Majesty, a Senate, and a House of Assembly." Section 63 (1) of the Constitution states: "The Executive Authority of Barbados is vested in Her Majesty."
Appellants can appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council of the (British) House of Lords, which is in effect the court of final recourse for Barbados, and most countries of the Commonwealth.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1998/documentation/coredocs/hri-core-1-add64.htm   (3034 words)

  
 Parties around the world greet conference
From North America, the US International Socialist Organisation, renowned left academic, James Petras, and the Freedom Socialist Party's international executive committee sent greetings.
Chris Bambery, national secretary of the British Socialist Workers Party, stated in his greetings: “Globally we are witnessing the rebirth of the left.
Left parties and activists around the world have enthusiastically welcomed a further step in the international process of socialist renewal and regroupment.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2001/460/460p9b.htm   (437 words)

  
 educationet. The Grass Roots UK Education On-Line News Service
Following a recent statement by the Campaign for Free Education members of the NUS National Executive Committee I wish to confirm that I have decided to resign as Chair of the Campaign for Free Education and leave the organisation.
Like many before her, she has come to believe that the goal of a democratic, campaigning national union, which puts students' needs and its principles before the realpolitik of ingratiating itself with the Government, is simply unrealistic.
Since the CFE's foundation, many of its leading activists have been members of the Labour Party or a university Labour Club.
www.educationet.org /z0325.html   (437 words)

  
 Chapter Three - The Communist Party of Iran
In the Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Comintern—a special meeting held to discuss the Iranian Party’s problems and perspectives—it was decided that the next (second) congress would be held on September 1927, where they would discuss the matter further.
The Party declared that the success of the reaction in the August 1953 coup was due to the absence of close co-operation between the forces opposing the Tudeh Party and the national bourgeoisie.
The position of the Tudeh Party was not that of Lenin but of the Russian Mensheviks who also advocated the subordination of the workers’ movement to the bourgeois liberals, alleging the need to unite all "progressive forces".
www.marxist.com /iran/chapter3.html   (437 words)

  
 Rogers: Two false oppositions
This resolution protests against the “action of the Executive Committee of the Labour Party which no longer recognises the affiliation of the Socialist League and considers adherence to the Labour Party to be incompatible with that of the League”.
An amendment deleting this part of the resolution, which shows clearly that the National Council of the League had no intention of reforming the organisation without the express permission of the Executive of the Labour Party, was, put.
The reply of the Labour Executive to the obliging dissolution of the Socialist League was a further strengthening of the dictatorship of reformism inside the party.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol1/no1/twoopps.html   (437 words)

  
 The Scottish debate: Scotland, France and the International
But as we have already shown the Scottish Socialist Party is different, especially given that the Scottish Militant Labour Executive Committee proposes that the Committee for a Workers’ International provides the bulk of the resources, both human and material, to launch this "broad" party.
As Frances Curran's 27 March letter (published in British MB 28) explains, "Initial Proposals" was a document, written on 6 March, which the Scottish Militant Labour Executive Committee was submitting to the 28/29 March Scottish Militant Labour Conference.
The Labour Party won the seat with 10,346 votes and the Scottish National Party came second with 7,615.
www.marxist.net /scotland/1998/france4.htm   (5447 words)

  
 Socialist societies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Socialist societies also elect a delegate to the Labour National Executive Committee and can affiliate at a local level to Constituency Labour Parties.
The best-known socialist society is the Fabian Society, founded in 1884, some years before the creation of the Labour Party itself (in which the Society participated).
Affiliation means that the socialist societies - like a number of British trade unions - pay an affiliation fee to the Labour Party, and the affiliates' members become affiliated members of the Labour Party (a different status from full member), unless they specifically choose otherwise.
www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Socialist_societies   (5447 words)

  
 Trades Union Congress - TUC General Council Report 2003
She was a member of the CSEU Executive, the Labour Party National Executive’s Women’s Committee, and, from 2000, a member of the Health and Safety Commission.
As well as serving on the General Council and the Executive Committee from 1999, she was Chair of the TUC Women’s Committee and co-chaired the Women’s National Commission.
A former shop steward, he rose to be National Officer of the General and Municipal Workers Union - now the GMB and served on a number of the TUC’s committees, including the Employment Policy and Organisation Committee.
www.tuc.org.uk /congress/tuc-6978-f15.cfm   (5447 words)

  
 Glossary of Organisations: Br
It is headed by an Executive Committee which together with the Trade Union General Council and the Executive Committee of the Go-operative Party constitute the so-called National Labour Council.
"The Labour Party is an out-and-out bourgeois party, for although it does consist of workers it is led by reactionaries the worst reactionaries who operate in the spirit of the bourgeoisie.
The Go-operative Party and the I.L.P. are corporate members of the Labour Party.
www.marxists.org /glossary/orgs/b/r.htm   (598 words)

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