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• NEW LABOUR LEFT INTERNATIONALISTS BULLETIN
At https://labourleftint.uk/2026/06/14/lli-bulletin-june-2026/
Print out copies for your CLP from pdf, or email lableftint@gmail.com if you want us to mail you some hard copies.
We will produce a revised version after the Makerfield by-election result on 18/6/26
• A DRAFT CHARTER FOR LABOUR PARTY DEMOCRACY
Print out copies for your CLP from pdf, or email lableftint@gmail.com if you want us to mail you some hard copies.
Template motions (and Labour democracy charter) at labourleftint.uk
• AFTER 7 MAY
Adapted versions of the text at
have been put to a number of CLPs. No final votes yet, but a good response.
• RECRUITING TO THE LABOUR PARTY
Our own anecdotal experience, and a recent report on Labour List, suggests that Labour membership, in steady decline since 2020, has ticked up again, and doorstepping people who expressed interest in joining Labour during canvassing for 7 May is productive.
This is all very small scale. If Reform win in Makerfield, the case for a change of Labour’s direction will be even more undeniable, but the short-term probability is that any positive trends will reverse and demoralisation will increase. In that case we will argue for sticking in there: Reform will still have to be beaten, and that won’t be done by lapsing into resignation (or joining the Greens).
Other tiny positive signs recently: Jess Barnard being reinstated to Labour membership after a suspension, just in time for her to stand again for the NEC; and at least one member excluded in the large-scale purges of a few years ago being readmitted.
If you’ve been excluded, this may be a good time to apply for readmission.
• LONDON LABOUR REGIONAL CONFERENCE 18-19 JULY 2026
Leonardo Royal Hotel Tower Bridge, 45 Prescot Street, E1 8GP
LII will be distributing a bulletin; supporting a left slate for the Regional Executive https://labourleftint.uk/2026/06/08/a-left-slate-for-london-region/ ; and supporting motions including for public ownership of Thames Water. https://labourleftint.uk/2026/05/20/text-to-adapt-for-motion-on-thames-water-for-london-lp-conference-18-19-july-2026/ If you’re interested in coming to help distribute the bulletin, email lableftint@gmail.com
• GROUPS WE’RE WORKING WITH
The LLI committee on 14 June 2026 heard reports on Restore Labour Democracy, Reset the Labour Party, Mainstream, Renew YL, Labour Women United, CLPD, and the Compass-initiated conference on 30/5/26. All quite quiet, for now anyway.
The last Mainstream Zoom meeting was feistier than previous ones, and we heard that there is a Mainstream local group now in Sheffield.
But, generally, Labour left groups seem to be waiting on the Makerfield result and a new leader election.
• MAKERFIELD
Our people who’ve been there report a lot of Labour canvassers, many more than in Gorton and Denton (and a good reception among canvassers for the LLI bulletin).
• EHRC CODE OF PRACTICE
Nadia Whittome’s motion to disapprove the Code of Practice now has 135 signatures: https://bit.ly/cop-ehrc
That will get heard, or not heard, and passed, or not passed, by 30 June.
The decision by the City of London (an unlikely pioneer here!) for trans-inclusion to continue at Hampstead Heath’s Bathing Ponds is a positive precedent for at least mitigating the Code of Practice.
If the Bathing Ponds can be trans-inclusive, surely the Labour women’s conference can also be? We know of no move by unions to change their trans-inclusive policies for their women’s conferences.
See https://labourleftint.uk/2026/02/12/labour-womens-conference-and-trans-rights/ for motion passed by Islington South CLP.
LLI has approached Labour Women United for cooperation, and we’re waiting for a more definite answer.
• LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE 26-30 SEPTEMBER 2026
LP conference is 26-30 September in Liverpool, and we’ll want an LLI team there. Email us lableftint@gmail.com if you’re interested in coming to help, or in working with us at conference. We will book accommodation.
We will organise a fringe meeting on the theme “A plan for Labour democracy”.
We will produce a single conference bulletin this year, rather than daily bulletins as in 2025, but also produce regular online updates (and have a QR code on our bulletin pointing to them).
CLP meetings in June 2026 will consider, have considered, nominations for NEC, Women’s Committee, etc., and decide 2026 conference delegates (unless decided earlier by CLP AGMs, as is practice in some CLPs). Those nominations have to be sent in by 26 June.
LLI has urged nominations for the Reset Labour slate for the NEC plus Jess Barnard, and the Labour Women United slate for the Women’s Committee. And CLPs to elect delegates who are in line with CLP policy and who are strong and assertive enough to speak up if the CLP’s motion is ruled out of order, or looks like being gutted in a composite.
CLPD is pushing some good rule changes. Those have to be submitted by 26 June (same deadline as for nominations and delegate selection), and then may be debated at 2027 conference. If your CLP chooses to submit one of those, it can’t also send in a (“contemporary”) motion. We’re investigating what rule changes (submitted in 2025) will come up for debate at 2026 conference.
The deadline for CLPs and affiliated organisations to submit contemporary motions will probably be 5pm on Thursday 10 September 2026 (though no official announcement has been given yet) so most CLPs will decide Labour conference motions later. They have to be “contemporary”, i.e. refer to events since some cut-off date probably in July, so no-one is even drafting template motions yet. You will probably need to get your CLP to fix a special meeting in early September to adopt a motion.
Last year LLI promoted a green conversion motion. It was passed by a CLP, and it was good to get that discussion; but then like many motions disappeared in the process of rulings-out by CAC and priorities ballot, and the CLP didn’t have a delegate confident or feisty enough to challenge that
Our plan this year is to recommend supporters in each CLP to support one of the template motions that will be produced by Momentum and similar groups, maybe in an adapted and sharpened version, choosing according to what seems to have a chance of getting to conference floor or at least generating a fight to get it to conference floor (as in the 2-child benefit cap motions in 2025), and having a delegate from the CLP who will fight for a hearing.
Obviously we’ll have to decide on detail later.
• BREXIT POLICY SHIFTS
Government policy on Europe is shifting, but very slowly. For an update see:
• NEXT LLI COMMITTEE MEETING. 12/7/26
Labour Left Internationalists 