The Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) is supporting candidates for our Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) who will champion real Labour values and oppose anti-democratic manoeuvres by the Party leadership.

After years of austerity, privatisation and inequality, our Labour Government has so far failed to introduce economic policies that can deliver the change communities are crying out for.

It is absolutely vital our Government succeeds and defeats the far-right at the next election, and that requires a change in direction.

For public services, redistribution of wealth and workers’ rights

For us to be successful in Government, we must revise our fiscal framework, introduce a wealth tax, take rail, energy, water, and mail into public ownership, reverse the creeping privatisation of our National Health Service and introduce a second Employment Rights Bill that goes beyond the current diluted version. We must address the disastrous impact of student fees and huge debts imposed.

For peace, defence of international law and against racism

The Government must be much bolder in supporting peace and justice internationally, and stand up to Trump's belligerent agenda for US dominance. The government should act on last year’s overwhelming Labour Conference vote to suspend arms sales and trade with Israel and recognise the genocide in Gaza, as well as take the approach of the 2025 Trades Union Congress in prioritising wages not weapons by cancelling proposed increases to military spending. Instead of pandering to Reform, Labour must reverse its plans to attack migrant rights and make our asylum system even more draconian. Labour should not be attempting to out-Reform Reform and instead champion the contributions of migrants to society.

For a democratic Labour Party

The diverse views of our members and affiliates should be respected, and attacks on dissenting voices within the Party stopped. MPs should never have been disciplined for opposing welfare cuts and voting to scrap the two-child limit. Although those MPs were reinstated, Diane Abbott, Britain’s first black female MP, remains unjustly suspended, and threats to punish MPs for taking principled positions continues. To change course and rebuild support, the Labour Leadership needs to listen to its diverse membership, in particular by implementing democratic structures for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and Disabled Members, reinstating a 2-day Women’s Conference and valuing and strengthening our trade union link.

That's why we need NEC representatives who will speak out on behalf of members: representatives who will stand up for democracy and local parties, oppose anti-democratic rule changes, and defend and advance the rights of members and affiliates in selections, internal elections and policy-making.

With the far-right on the rise, there’s no time to waste. It's vital to elect NEC members who will fight for our Party to succeed.