Socialist Campaign Group Page - John McDonnell MP Among its planned funding streams are a levy of 1,000 per MP to be taken from their training budgets and contributions from. If you dont care, please let me know why. This new organising space for left MPs should in the first instance focus on innovating with newparliamentary tactics and media interventions to push issues like the Green New Deal in the runup to COP26 and off the back of it. Claudia Webbe MP Socialist Campaign Group (@socialistcampaigngroup) on TikTok | Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs.Watch the latest video from Socialist Campaign Group (@socialistcampaigngroup). Absolutely right Andy. It is not for moving. 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.. Jeremy Corbyn is the MP for Islington North and former leader of the Labour Party. The Centre-Left was an elitist alliance between parliamentary supporters of former Labor leader Bill Hayden (who had resigned in favor of Bob Hawke) and smaller state party officials who feared the move away from equal state representation at National Conferences would lead to a loss of influence. 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Joseph Ive been meaning to thank you for the very interesting link in your recent post about Borax which particularly interested me as I suffer quite badly from arthritis. It was a campaign initiated by that well known opponent of racism, the Daily Mail in an article written even . Margaret Beckett described this change as "unprecedented". ", "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? [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%. Socialist Campaign Group - Wikispooks (Monty Pythons). Socialist Campaign Group on Twitter Nearly every one of the twenty-odd ex-members of the Campaign Group sitting in the 198792 Parliament was appointed to the front bench shortly after leaving the group. Will Starmer move against the Socialist Campaign Group? THE Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs called on the party to immediately reinstate the membership of filmmaker and anti-racist Ken Loach today. [19] Backbench Labour MPs, led by the Campaign Group, opposed these plans, speaking and voting against them in Parliament. . "[18], Under Blair, the Labour government introduced plans to cut lone parent benefit, a measure which members of the Campaign Group believed would disproportionately harm women. Fantasy politics : A new party led by Howard Beckett(?) 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. Is not Starmer doing both with HQ staff? Zarah Sultana MP Our regular supporters fuel everything we do. He pursued a 'carrot and stick' approach to undermining the Campaign Group by promoting MPs who were willing to leave the Campaign Group and renounce their previously held views and by isolating those who remained members. Labour councillor joins 'from the river to sea' chant at event with John McDonnell, then Chair of the Socialist Campaign Group, argued "Our sincere hope is that the prime minister desists from relying upon a [David] Cameron coalition to force his education policies through in the face of this overwhelming opposition within the parliamentary Labour party. However, three (3) of the five cited footnoted references [21, 23 & 24], claiming that the evidence does not support the US-funded Bashash 2017 and Green 2019 studies, were published before 2017 and thus it is absurd to use them to dismiss such important findings. Another day, another initiative on the Labour left. Talk about fiddling while the party burns.. Hmmmmm. Not sure why they would set up a new group though ..? The injustice against the Palestinian people is intensifying. So there is surely nothing wrong in forming Socialist Campaign Group Rally 1,606 views Streamed live on Sep 21, 2020 111 Dislike Share Save Arise Festival 2.15K subscribers Join members of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. [2], Both John McDonnell, then Chair of the Campaign Group, and Michael Meacher, a member of the Campaign Group, sought nominations to run against Gordon Brown. [63] Corbyn promoted a number of Campaign Group MPs to fill his Shadow Cabinet including Richard Burgon, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Grahame Morris and Clive Lewis, and with their support along with that of other left wing MPs and the mobilisation of members by Momentum Corbyn refused to resign. MPs using their training budget (Im not sure if thats from party funds or part of their parliamentary expenses) to fund this seems cheeky. Issues regularly covered included: women's liberation, Black Sections, international liberation struggles, internal Labour Party democracy and elections, reports from the National Executive Committee, proposed resolutions for Labour Party Conference, socialist economic policy, disabled people's rights, Northern Ireland and the Conservative Party. Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs Rally - YouTube Tony Greenstein started this petition to Socialist Campaign Group of MPs. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. All the previous criticisms of the 60 or so prior cross-sectional studies, showing lowered IQ associated with fluoride, were addressed in the Bashash 2017 study. lead pipe and wiped moleskin soldered joints using tallow and plumbers black we moved into copper and soldered \brazed joints and active flux.Five years Apprenticeship and then further studys in just what our water supplies including the notorious flouride and now Graffine..Somebody needs to do somthing about this disgraceful attempt by unregulated private money making companys that are litterly poisoning the people.to avoid any attempt at purifying our water supplies through filtered beds of granules which from their point of veiw is expensive and Labour intensive. In 2010 nominations from 33 MPs (12.5% of the Parliamentary Labour Party) were required to make it onto the ballot paper. Enquiry as they were gathering their evidence? Several MPs and groups within the Labour Party, as well as trade union Unite leader Len McCluskey, have since argued that the suspension is wrong, and called on the Labour leader to reverse the disciplinary action. Both McDonnell and Meacher agreed that whichever of them had the support of fewer Labour MPs at the point of Tony Blair's resignation would withdraw from the campaign and support the other. 0s. London: Macmillan. Socialist Campaign Group Page Socialist Campaign Group Page Newsletter 3 - July 2020 Building Back Better In our latest newsletter, members of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs look at how the Left must respond to the public health and economic crisis and call for solidarity with Palestine. As the deadline for nominations approached it started to look as though all other candidates would be excluded not only Livingstone and Grant but also Ann Clwyd, Bryan Gould and John Prescott."[40]. "[16] Labour Party historian Alex Nunns described how "Left-wing hopefuls, like Christine Shawcroft or Mark Seddon, were stopped at all costs. If he turned up, plenty of people would choose to commemorate elsewhere. [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. [5], The Campaign Group subsequently organised itself around opposition to the direction the party took under the leadership of Kinnock and his successors. It will be interesting who turns up for the Commemoration. Combat medals without taking part, Tory Rory here in the UK is similar. For example: is it because Richard Branson who resides in the Virgin Islands and yes, his State pension is frozen? Organisation [ edit] [36] At a meeting of the Campaign Group following this election defeat, it was agreed that Tony Benn should stand against Kinnock in a leadership election, although Benn himself was reluctant to run. The groups strategy document, of which Skwawkbox exclusively obtained a copy, makes clear that it aims to steer Keir Starmer rather than resisting or replacing him. In the US, a relatively small group in the Senate/HoR can exert significant pressure, particularly when their party holds the presidency and has a tenuous hold on the two houses. [71] The document outlines a socialist, internationalist and democratic agenda and starts by listing the rights that members thought out to be fought for: "WE BELIEVE: That there should be certain rights which must be won and maintained: We need a campaign for peace and disarmament in Europe, and for an end to the arms trade throughout the world and for a new international economic order which will start to reverse the transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest. Grahame Morris MP The statement set out the ideological basis for Benn's 1988 campaign to be Labour leader. However, Margaret Beckett, who had been a member of the Campaign Group until 1988, was nominated by 18 Campaign Group MPs, with 5 nominating John Prescott. Will wait & see. 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. He told The Times newspaper "I am here today because thousands of people who elected me just cannot afford to pay. 18 Socialist Campaign Group MPs in parliament have signed a statement declaring that they oppose the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn and calling for the disciplinary action to be quickly reversed. [43][44], In 2007 only 24 of 353 Labour MPs were members of the Socialist Campaign Group and party rules required nominations from 45 MPs (12.5% of the Parliamentary Labour Party) to make it onto the ballot paper. We are pushing the Labour leadership to do better on its economic approach . socialistcampaigngroup photos on Flickr | Flickr https://endfrozenpensions.org/ The 2015 Leadership Election was the first held under new rules introduced by Ed Miliband following the Collins Review which recommended moving to a one-member one vote (OMOV) system. Portugals PM Costa stuns with majority win in snap election Days after berating the West, former shadow minister Richard Burgon, secretary of the hard Left Socialist Campaign Group . ", This page was last edited on 30 January 2023, at 22:23. A younf Socialist female bame leader would be the lightening rod for progressives across the country 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. Can it not be more? For other uses, see, Opposition to the Iraq War & founding the Stop The War Coalition. Zarah Sultana MP Kate Osborne MP I have tried highlighting the injustice of the 550,000 British overseas pensioners who have been shafted by successive governments. [42], No candidate from the Campaign Group ran in the 1994 leadership election and the group did not endorse a candidate. Ian Mearns MP Socialist Campaign Group MPs John McDonnell and Diane Abbott both sought nominations to run; however, McDonnell withdrew from the race after it became clear he would not receive sufficient nominations, and instead supported Abbott to give her the best chance of making it onto the ballot. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portuguese-go-polls-snap-election-marked-by-covid-uncertainty-2022-01-30/. and it is a brilliant film definitely to be recommended! However, this time rather than a new 'rank and file' initiative, it seems that a group of 11 Campaign Group MPs and one member of the Scottish parliament are forming a new parliamentary caucus. 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. Thanks for reminding us why this new group needs our active support. [52] Ed Miliband went on to win the leadership election. They were trying to buy bolt-cutters to cut the fences at Greenham Common, but anytime they turned up at a shop anywhere near, they were denied the right to buy them. Our preference is likely for a new legal structure if Lloyd is able to administer but wed likeopinions on this. This would be one more step in Starmers plan to make Labour safe for the socially regressive those Tories he thinks he needs to persuade to vote Labour in order to win a general election. Abbott secured the first-preference votes of 7 MPs: Diane Abbott, Katy Clark, Jeremy Corbyn, Kelvin Hopkins, John McDonnell, Linda Riordan and Mike Wood. 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. For 14 years Gaza has been under siege. Ian Lavery MP The Nottingham East MP explained: The grounds for Jeremys suspension remain unclear. Yesterdays decision to reinstate Jeremy Corbyn to the Labour Party was the correct one and should be implemented across all levels of the party. mis- used by Starmer to suppress democracy. Distasteful might have been better. Labour MP for Wansbeck and former trade union leader. [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. Grahame Morris MP Diane Abbott MP Len McCluskey, leader of the Unite union, Labour's biggest financial donor, also rolled back from his more combative tone from Thursday, saying it was "a sensitive time" and people should remain. here at ground level we call it playing silly buggers! Dance! 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]. Better to have them outside the tent pissing in. Obviously not the ones paid a 600,000 bonus for screwing Corbyn. MS by Michael Segalov,. LabourList has more readers than ever before - but we need your support. who set such a brilliant example of pretending to be one thing The Socialist Campaign Group, officially the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs and also known as the Campaign Group, is a left-wing, democratic socialist grouping of the Labour Party's Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Only kidding. However, they did not respond when asked to confirm explicitly to confirm that this meant there was no intention ever to leave the SCG and to clarify who would be considered qualified to join, there was no response. Temporary commission in the military as an officer , Lets see what they deliver from their wish list. Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs Rally, How To Intervene in Police and State Power with Copwatch Network, Left Book Club x TWT: Socialism and Literature, With Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Wendy Liu, Elif Sarican. Before 2017, the Campaign Group was only open to backbench MPs; this was reformed to allow all Members of Parliament to be members. Especially when they get paid 80k a year with a generous expense account and a good pension. So, these MPs and MSP are going to fund this, in part, with 1000 payments from their training budget? All point in the same direction infant IQ loss (or increased ADHD symptoms) associated with fluoride exposure at the doses experienced in artificially fluoridated communities. Apsana Begum MP The structure and operation of the political system in the US is completely different from that in the UK. Andy Fantasy politics : A new party led by Howard Beckett(?) Devoid of political heavyweights like Right Wing Labour, irrelevant. [4], The Campaign Group would go on to back Eric Heffer and Michael Meacher in their unsuccessful bids for the leadership and deputy leadership in 1983. For doing precisely sod all if they so choose. Thanks. [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. Party Governance structure which has been The Slow Death of the Campaign Group // New Socialist They have cut off their legs. These Rebel MPs Are Planning a War with Labour Austerity - Vice At that time the left on the NEC predicted that the new rule would rebound against democracy in the entire party including the soft left who voted for it. Never acknowledged by a single Socialist MP on Twitter. For over four and a half years there was a sustained campaign of vilification and defamation alleging that the Labour Party was overrun by 'anti-Semitism'. Howls of laughter ensue. Peter Barberis, John McHugh and Mike Tyldesley. We need a new Left Wing Democratic Socialist Army with courage and vision! If you care share. My grandfather was apprenticed to be a plumber before he joined the colours and went off to the Somme. Why dont you rename your self as the liberal box? [9], In 2005, Blair's government announced plans to encourage every school to become an independent self-governing trust. Another complete waste of time and money. It is understood that others were invited to join the group, including Paula Barker, Beth Winter, Nav Mishra and Rachel Hopkins, but ultimately they did not become members and are not currently involved. To support the SKWAWKBOX and raise awareness of the independent Left media, visit our store for T-shirts, hoodies and more. Absolutely pathetic from a bunch of cowards. Much was submitted -including some put together by JVL of Like all, her voting actions show her true colours. Tahir Ali MP JLM national secretary Peter Mason argued in a piece for LabourList yesterday that the EHRC report was supposed to offer us some closure on antisemitism, but that it doesnt appear to be arriving anytime soon. Corbyn was in court alongside 16 other Islington residents all opposing the levy on grounds other than inability to pay. The Socialist Campaign Group ( SCG ), also known as the Campaign Group, is a left-wing, democratic socialist grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom . While Corbyn was party leader, from 2015 to 2019, Socialist Campaign Group activity reduced as many members joined the shadow cabinet. 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. Not sure what they are up to but Ive just found this on FB. 13 May 2020. For 54 years Gaza, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem have been illegally occupied by Israel. They are only copying their leader after all Where do they stand on the dangerous, fake pandemic? The Knights Who Say Kni? If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so seeherefor more. office possibly that is why it has taken them so long to produce Richard Burgon MP 18 Socialist Campaign Group MPs sign call for Corbyn - LabourList A number of MPs who did not join SCG colleagues in calling for the reinstatement of Corbyn earlier this month have signed the latest joint declaration, but some SCG members are still missing from the list. Copyright 2020 The Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs. [56], On 12 September 2015 Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party in a landslide victory, with 59.5% of first-preference votes. The right to useful and satisfying work, balanced with leisure, to meet the needs of society.