This year, constituency parties have the chance to elect representatives to Labour’s National Executive. The Centre Left Grassroots Alliance, representing democratic socialist groups across the centre and left of the Labour Party, is promoting candidates who will stand up for the rights of party members and the bold progressive policies Labour needs to win back the five million voters lost in the years. Each candidate, while retaining freedom of judgment on specific issues, will therefore work for: An End to Austerity reversing privatisation, and by extending democratic and financial powers for local government. The Tory-led Coalition’s cuts agenda has caused huge • Campaign for a radical redistribution of power in the damage to the economy, slowing growth, increasing workplace, with improved and unemployment, reducing living standards of most people, and increasing poverty and inequality. It has even failed in employment rights, the right of trade unions to its own aim of lowering the national debt, which has recruit members, recognition by employers with increased as the economy has stagnated. negotiating rights and sectoral collective bargaining, and a legally-enforced living wage. We reject austerity as a solution to the economic crisis. Instead of cuts, we will work for a Labour government Democracy, Transparency and committed to a plan for public investment and jobs that can get the economy growing, to restore manufacturing Accountability and to fund improvements in housing, health, education, These candidates will: transport and state pensions. • Support the trade union link and back the collective A Radical Reforming Labour Party voice of trade unions on the basis of parity of representation with individual members through These candidates will campaign for a Labour Party their CLPs; committed to: • Work to restore the role of the Party Conference as • redistributing wealth, income and power from the the party’s sovereign decision-making body, able to few to the many; choose policies not just rubber stamp them, and • ending poverty and improving universal benefits; debate motions submitted on the basis of fair criteria, • protecting the environment; with 50% of conference time reserved for grassroots promoting social justice; and • delegates; • fighting discrimination on grounds of gender, race, • Argue for changes to the policy-making process age, class, disability, sexual orientation and religion. which give CLPs and members greater influence, We believe that disputes between countries should be including the right to amend policy documents at resolved by negotiations through the United Nations, Conference; not through unilateral military action, and that Britain & • Safeguard the right of members to choose their own the world would be safer without replacing Trident. candidates without prior or political vetting, or Economic Democracy interference by party officials. These candidates will: • Press for Young Labour to be a resourced • Promote policies that extend the accountability of campaigning organisation controlled by young public services, utilities and resources through the members and run by its elected leadership, with a full extension of public ownership, by resisting and input into policymaking. • Please urge your CLP to nominate candidates (details overleaf) by Fri 20 June Your CLP can nominate up to six candidates for Labour’s NEC by Friday 20 June

Ann Black Kate Osamor Darren Williams The Tories are I support the core Labour needs to setting the jobless Labour values of provide a clear against the working peace, social alternative to the poor, public service justice and public Con-Dem policies against private ownership, wrecking our industry, Britain particularly of the economy and against the world. NHS and other public services. Labour must build prosperity, but also public services. The Tory deficit reduction This means ending austerity & investing defend social security for the young, the strategy is unnecessary and unfair, in job creation; reversing privatisation and disabled, the elderly and the unlucky, and disproportionately hitting those on low attacks on social security; restoring trade stop blaming claimants and foreigners. incomes. We need to save public sector union rights; and introducing a more Relations with individual workers must be jobs & reach out to local communities. I’m progressive tax regime. If elected, I would strengthened, but not at the expense of involved in my local campaigns such as encourage the party to learn from the collective affiliation. Please email opposing Academy schools & the closure success of Wales’ authentic Labour [email protected] or call 07956 of my local Hospital A&E, and am an policies and would provide regular 637958 to tell me how Labour can see off active member of . I feedback to members and party units. UKIP in the Euro-elections and return to encourage more involvement of party Contact [email protected], government in 2015. Read my reports at members and campaign to get more 07880 546019 or @darrenw_cardiff women to stand for office. I believe in http://www.labourblogs.com/public- Darren is a member of Cardiff West CLP, an accountability & will report back regularly. blog/annblack NPF member (since 2010) and a new Cardiff Ann is Secretary of Oxford Labour & a Kate chairs a school governing body and is councillor. He’s also acting Wales Secretary member of UNISON's National Political a member of Tottenham CLP. Membership of PCS & Secretary of Committee. Membership No. A353890 No. L0121033 Grassroots. Membership No. A024240. Ken Livingstone Christine Shawcroft Peter Willsman NEC members have On the NEC, I’ve Our Party will gain to ensure our spoken up against a majority in 2015, manifesto commits the invasions of provided we stay us to stop plans to Afghanistan and united & campaign cut public services Iraq, warned about on bold policies and rebalances our the “targets” culture that address the economy from imposed on public needs of voters in financial services to high tech, high skill services, and opposed ruinous PFI their diverse communities. The Tories are manufacturing providing working class schemes (which even the Tories admit in long-term decline and the Lib-Dems jobs. Now we can see the bankruptcy of were financial disasters). I am a strong, collapsing. Labour needs to seize the the neo-liberal strategy, has independent voice on the NEC, doing my initiative and stand firm against the right- the chance to win the election and set best to raise the concerns of rank and file wing press and its neo-liberal agenda. An Britain on a new course as the 1945 members. I’m not easily intimidated and I effective NEC is key to our drive for victory Labour government did. This requires low try and hold the leadership to account. I bringing together the CLPs, Unions and interest rates to underpin investment and will carry on fighting for greater parliamentary leadership. Since 1981, I a council house-building programme. As democracy in the party, and a policy have been elected to serve on all 4 Ed Balls said in 2010 building another making process which reflects our ideals. Labour national committees, the only 100,000 homes a year creates work for Email me at [email protected] party member ever to have achieved this honour. Ring me on 01865 244459. three quarters of a million people. Christine was a Councillor for 13 years and Ken is a member of Brent Central CLP. is now a member of Nottingham South CLP. Peter is a member of Oxford East CLP. Membership No. A080227 Membership No. A490373 Membership No A071448

plus Diana is Assistant General Secretary of Unite & and has been on the NEC for 18 years. Gary has Diana Holland been a Labour council & parliamentary Gary Heather for Party Treasurer candidate, chairs his local trades council and for the NCC was until recently on the CWU executive.

Published by the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance, which, when established in 1998, was welcomed by Tribune’s editorial as an initiative to challenge the forces within the party ‘who wish to further downgrade internal democracy and to ensure that the left and centre-left wins as large a presence as possible within the NEC’ . Contact: *185a Iffley Road, Oxford, OX4 1EL ' 01865 244450 : [email protected]