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Labour Action for Peace was founded 1940 as an organisation of Labour Party members and supporters working for peace, socialism and disarmament, and seeking to make these issues the forefront of Labour Party policy.
Latest International News 16.10.08
NATO kill at least another 18 civilians- women and children including an infant- in yet another bodged bombing operation in Helman Province Afghanistan. Yet more innocents are slaughtered in what appears to be one of President Bush's desperate attempts to 'get' Osama Bin Laden in the final days of the Bush presidency. Over the past few years many Afghan civilians have been assassinated in similar bodged NATO raids based on incorrect 'intelligence'; the word being a misnomer in the circumstances.
Events Diary
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) - National Gathering 2008 Key-note speaker: Solomon Hughes, author of 'War on Terror, Inc. Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear'
10am - 5pm Saturday 8 November 2008 at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Book your place online at CAATLabour Representation Committee - National Conference 2008 The Future of the Left
10am - 5pm 15 November 2008 at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London
Register online now Labour Representation CommitteeThe Economic Crisis - the Left responds
As banks collapse and the taxpayer steps in, debate with LEAP (Left Economics Advisory Panel) how the left should respond.
Left Economic Advisory Panel (LEAP)
Listen to John McDonnell MP interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland giving his verdict on the Government's banks bailout:
"Socialist view to nationalise the banks -"
"- what isn't a socialist view is to nationalise the losses and privatise the profits"
John McDonnell MP - on The Labour Representation Committee
Post-Blair, the Labour Party has not changed. The democratic deficit increases. A neo-liberal, market dominated, offensive privatising programme continues.
When resolutions are forbidden at Party conference and taboos placed on debating nuclear re-armament and foreign policy, it is high time to act. .............
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Recent events: LAP joins LRC.
The re-birth of the Labour Representation Committee (name of the party from 1900 to 1906) promises well for democratic debate, peace, disarmament and socialism.
LAP has affiliated; the Executive Committee having tried for some time to find such an appropriate link, since New Labour's failure on all of LAP's goals.
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