Labour Representation Committee (2004)
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The Labour Representation Committee is a British socialist pressure group within the Labour Party.
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[edit] Overview
The LRC was formed at a founding conference on Saturday 3rd July 2004, taking its name from the original Labour Representation Committee which was formed in February 1900.
The LRC allows Constituency Labour Parties and Branch Labour Parties to affiliate to it, along with local, regional and national unions and individual party members and supporters. So far there are currently 10 affiliated CLPs and 7 BLPs. In parliament, the group is represented within Parliament by the Socialist Campaign Group. The LRC also has a youth group, the Socialist Youth Network.
The Chairman is John McDonnell, who the LRC supported as a candidate for leader of the Labour Party.
[edit] Socialist Youth Network
The Socialist Youth Network, also known as SYN, is the youth section of the LRC. it was founded in March 2007.
[edit] Affiliated MPs
The Representation Committee has a number of officially affiliated MPs, those being:
- Michael Clapham MP
- Katy Clark MP
- Jeremy Corbyn MP
- David Drew MP
- David Hamilton MP
- Kelvin Hopkins MP
- Dr Lynne Jones MP
- John McDonnell MP
- Bob Wareing MP
The group also receives support from unaffiliated MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Michael Meacher, as well as the Labour veteran Tony Benn.
[edit] Afiliated Unions
The LRC maintains support from a number of trade unions, the most prominent of these being:
