The National Executive Committee has dismissed the call for an emergency recalled Labour Party conference. By refusing even to debate these motions the NEC have failed the membership. They have failed to listen to the vast swathes of the rank and file who want to see democracy in the party restored.

We thank all those NEC members who supported the motion and who wanted to heed our call to restore democracy in our party.

Faced with an endemic crisis within the Labour Party, local parties and affiliated organisations have passed dozens of emergency resolutions calling for an immediate recall conference as a way forward. Labour Parties from Berwick on Tweed to Sedgefield, from Islington North to Wallasey, from Aberconwy to Wakefield, from Blyth Valley to Sutton and Cheam, and many many more, have passed these motions. It is no accident that six local parties in Merseyside passed the recall motion. Scandalously, many other parties have been blocked and gagged from passing such a motion after bureaucratic instructions from the regional offices.

The Labour Party’s own Constitution states that in an event of a crisis, the NEC can call an emergency conference within ten days. But shamefully this has been refused

The Labour Party is facing a deep crisis, possibly the deepest crisis in its history. Unprecedentedly, the former leader of the party still remains suspended as a Labour MP. Hundreds more, who simply protested have in turn been suspended. Local parties have been “taken over” by regional officials. This is nothing more than authoritarianism. Tens of thousands have left the party and thousands more are thinking of leaving in disgust.

This situation is intolerable. The membership has no confidence in the upholding of democracy in our party structures, the acting general secretary, nor the current leadership that stands behind them.

The membership is not going to roll over. We intend to step up this fight to a much higher level. We intend to widen the struggle and to increase the involvement of more constituency labour parties, more affiliated organisations, including our trade union brothers and sisters.

We urge the grassroots membership to support the campaign. Let’s fight to reclaim democracy in our party. #ReclaimDemocracy