Labour conference has voted for policies including:
Public ownership of rail, Royal Mail, "utilities + essential industries"; £15 minimum wage; free, public social care; "unequivocal support for workers taking strike action"; support for joining pickets including by MPs.
#Lab22
Public ownership of rail, Royal Mail, "utilities + essential industries"; £15 minimum wage; free, public social care; "unequivocal support for workers taking strike action"; support for joining pickets including by MPs.
#Lab22
Motions still to come on climate; violence against women and girls; health; workers' pay; early years and childcare.
All this is after an incredible degree of bureaucratic stitch-ups by the Starmer leadership + party machine, keeping many left-wing motions / demands out.
Motions by themselves obviously aren't decisive. But the left and labour movement should use these as platforms to campaign.
Motions by themselves obviously aren't decisive. But the left and labour movement should use these as platforms to campaign.
But worth noting that - despite putting left-wing or leftish motions - the unions did NOT revolt against the party machine. Eg on the shocking bureaucratic + rule-breaking exclusion of Barrow's motion on public ownership of energy, and on rule changes, the unions went along.
This is indicative of much wider union political passivity and lack of fight and campaigning.
The argument unions should leave Labour because it's right-wing when in fact they fail to challenge the leadership is absurd.
The argument unions should leave Labour because it's right-wing when in fact they fail to challenge the leadership is absurd.
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