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Labour CND in conversation with Young Labour

Young Labour led the way on foreign policy at party conference with an historic motion calling out apartheid in Palestine and supporting sanctions on Israel, while Labour CND promoted a successful emergency motion on AUKUS.

Join Socalist Campaign Group MPs Apsana Begum and Richard Burgon join Young Labour Chair Jess Barnard and Tribune Editor Ronan Burtenshaw, with Stop the War’s Shelly Asquith and climate activist Sam Mason from Labour CND, to discuss the continuing struggle for a non-aligned foreign policy, focussed on peace and justice.

All welcome at this timely discussion. Register here and please circulate to your Young Labour contacts

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Richard Burgon MP urges Labour ‘don’t support Johnson’s military spending hike’

Writing in the Morning Star on 17 December, Socialist Campaign Group Secretary Richard Burgon called for ‘our whole movement’ to join Labour CND’s online lobby to persuade Labour MPs to oppose Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s £16 billion military spending increase. Burgon said: ‘Labour CND has launched a campaign to make the case for real security, tackling the climate crisis, global poverty and the Covid-19 pandemic — not a Tory military spending spree. It is one our whole movement should back.’

Read Burgon’s article here
Lobby your MP here