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Referenda Case

Warwick Labour Society - Constitution Amendment

Amendment to our society constitution - Should the society affiliate to Labour Students Left Network pending the creation of a new Student Wing of the party?

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o affiliate to Labour Students Left and add under clause “4.1 The society is affiliated to the following organisation(s):” in the society constitution “a) Labour Students Left”.

Labour Students Left Affiliation – Model Motion

 

 

Notes:

 

  • The repeated failure of Labour Students' Executive Officers to implement one member one vote for student members of the Labour Party for elections to its national committee.
  • That while the Labour Party Rulebook states “Student members of the Party shall be organised nationally as Labour Students”, Labour Students 2017/18 executive officers unilaterally ended the party’s operational oversight and its national committee subsequently refused to enfranchise student members of the party.
  • That tens of Labour Clubs and thousands of student Labour members were excluded from participating in this year’s national committee elections and conference.
  • That Labour Students continues to oppose Labour Party policy on free education and campaigns against it within the National Union of Students.

 

Believes:

 

  • That Labour Students has demonstrated itself both unwilling and unfit to serve as the student wing of a democratic socialist party.
  • That in its narrow politics and anti-democratic practises Labour Students actively alienates sympathetic students from involvement in the Labour Party.
  • That Labour clubs should therefore disaffiliate from Labour Students.
  • That the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party must therefore intervene to ensure all student members are organised and enfranchised as part of a democratic section of the party.
  • That pending such a measure Labour Clubs should affiliate to Labour Students Left in order to organise with other Labour clubs outside Labour Students.

 

Resolves:

 

  • To affiliate to Labour Students Left and add under clause “4.1 The society is affiliated to the following organisation(s):” in the society constitution “a) Labour Students Left”.