With the witch-hunt against Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters continuing unabashed, we want to make sure that we are again very visible at this year’s Labour Party conference in Brighton! Check out the LLA bulletin for an overview of the most interesting fringe meetings.

We are currently planning:

• Tuesday September 24, 7pm: Public meeting with Ken Livingstone, Jackie Walker, Asa Winstanley and others
• handing out LAW leaflets
• handing out Palestine flags
• running stalls outside conference and important fringe events
• a couple of surprise stunts

Because of the current extreme nature of the witch-hunt, we will not publish any of the venues – please email us if you want to come along and you will be informed on the morning of the event. We will also set up an email and a WhatsApp group to help organise LAW supporters. Please email info@labouragainstthewitchhunt.org and let us know:

• your mobile number and email address
• arrival and departure date
• are you a visitor or delegate
• what days/times you able to help out?

If you cannot make it, perhaps you could help our intervention with a donation?

The Facebook event for our intervention is here.

LLA bulletin #3: Labour Party conference The Labour Left Alliance is getting ready for Labour Party conference in Brighton (September 21 – 25). We are planning to display our banner in prominent locations around the main conference venues and hand out leaflets to the 12,000 or so delegates and visitors who come along to this important event. Can you help us out?   We are putting together a WhatsApp group for visitors and delegates, to establish a forum where we can organise leafleting and share important updates regarding fringe meetings and venues. People may also want to use it to share their assessments of conference or to share and discuss voting recommendations from organisations affiliated to LLA. As you will be aware, many groups supporting or working with the victims of the witch-hunt in the Labour Party over the past year or more have had their venues cancelled – click here for reports by Tony Greenstein and Greg Hadfield on some of the more recent cancellations.   We - and most of the groups listed below - have therefore decided not to publicise the venue of our networking event, but will inform interested comrades of the location on the day. Please get in touch with the relevant group and email us at info@labourleft.org to be added to the Whatsapp group (remember to include your current mobile phone number). See below­ for an overview of what we think are the most interesting fringe meetings at this year’s conference. At the LLA networking meeting on Wednesday September 25, we will discuss the way forward for the Labour Left Alliance and there will be at least one written proposal to debate. This will be sent out to all signatories on September 15 so that groups and individuals have time to discuss it. We are making arrangements for a Zoom meeting to allow people unable to travel to Brighton to participate in the event. The link will be published in the next LLA bulletin. Great start for the Labour Left Alliance Report from Lee Rock, convenor of Sheffield Labour Left and its representative on the LLA organising group   We are pleased to report that within the first two months of launching, more than 1,230 people have signed the Appeal for a Labour Left Alliance (LLA).   A few weeks ago, we were aiming for 1,000 signatories before Labour Party conference, and then push on from there. So, to get a couple of hundred more than this is a fantastic achievement. A big thank you to everyone who has shared the appeal and helped get to this number! We very much hope that we can be ambitious enough to get 2,000 people signed up by January 2020.    Even more surprising is the number of Constituency Labour Partys (CLPs) represented – we have signatories from just over 400 CLPs (of a total of 650). Unfortunately, many of these 400+ CLPs only feature one or two LLA signatories. Please try and get others in your CLP to sign up, so that we can get organised locally.   At the other end of the spectrum, there are 50 CLPs with more than five LLA supporters (a total of 425 signatories). In other words, 1/3 of individual supporters are covering 1/8 of all CLPs. This higher level of concentration makes it easier to get organised, get progressive motions carried and Corbyn supporters selected for officer positions, as council candidates and left slates nominated for national roles.   Crucially, such a higher level of organisation also helps with organising the newly reformed trigger ballots locally (which are supposed to take place everywhere with a sitting Labour MP. MPs who are pregnant or who have returned from maternity leave within the last 12 months cannot be triggered until that year is up). If you have not heard from your CLP or branch secretary, we recommend you get in touch with them and urge them to ask region to organise trigger meetings asap: As soon as a general election is called, the whole trigger process will be scrapped, so time is of the essence. More info on trigger ballots is available on our website.   LLA has already helped to set up local Labour Left groups in close to a dozen locations. All it takes is one or two local organisers who are prepared to launch a first meeting. Please get in touch for more information or if you need support: info@labourleft.org.   The number of local groups already signed up to the Labour Left Alliance is also starting to look very impressive (this is in addition to national groups like Labour Against the Witchhunt, the Labour Representation Committee, Red Labour and the Campaign for Chris Williamson): Sheffield Labour Left Merseyside Labour Left Bristol & West Left Alliance Brighton & Hove Labour Left Alliance Labour Briefing Scotland Rotherham Left Momentum Bromley Momentum Leicester Labour Left Barnsley Labour Left Oxfordshire LRC Click there for the full list including contact details and to sign up your local group, if you haven’t done so yet.   Many groups have also been making good use of the events calendar on our website to publicise local meetings (please email us information about events in your area) and there are a number of useful model motions on our website. A reminder that everyone who signed up to our appeal can join our very useful discussion group on Facebook - please do not 'invite' your Facebook friends, but urge them to sign the appeal (in which case they will be invited to join the group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/LabourLeftAlliance/   Stand with Chris Williamson!   Chris’s legal appeal reaches court tomorrow, Thursday September 12. A fantastic £55,000 has already been raised within a few short weeks to help cover his legal costs, which are coming to an estimated £75,000. But the campaign is still just over £20,000 short of the total it needs. Please donate here: https://www.campaignforchris.org/donate Or send a cheque to: Campaign for Chris Williamson 19 St. Christopher's Way Pride Park Derby DE24 8JY   Recommended fringe meetings at Labour Party conference   Sunday September 22, 5.30pm Jewish Voice for Labour fringe meeting: ‘Let’s talk about Palestine’ with Haneen Zoabi and Ilan Pappe Venue to be announced: Facebook event or email secretary@jvl.org.uk or chair@jvl.org.uk   Monday September 23, 7pm Labour Party Conference, Brighton: Labour Representation Committee fringe meeting with Jackie Walker and Chris Williamson MP:  ‘What kind of Labour Left do we need?’ Venue to be announced   Tuesday September 24, 7pm Labour Party Conference, Brighton: Labour Against the Witchhunt fringe meeting with Ken Livingstone, Jackie Walker, Asa Winstanley and others. Nearby meeting point to be announced via conference leaflets, Whatsapp messages and email. Facebook event, email info@labouragainstthewitchhunt.org   Wednesday September 25, 3pm Labour Party conference, Brighton: Appeal for a Labour Left Alliance – networking meeting for all signatories. Nearby meeting point to be announced via conference leaflets, Whatsapp messages and email. Facebook event If you cannot attend, you can join us via Zoom (link to follow in next week’s bulletin).