Labour Representation Committee
By Terry McCarthy

As a keen supporter and volunteer for John McDonnell's leadership campaign I am baffled at the reluctance of the Labour Representation Committee to reconvene; anybody with a basic understanding of politics knows the need for analysis.

The next general meeting will not take place until 1st November one year after the highly-successful conference which endorsed John's leadership bid.

Important issues have to be discussed now:

• why was the campaign such a shambles?
• The failure of John's own campaign group of MPs to mobilise 100 per cent behind John.
• The failure of the rank-and-file trade unionists to even bother to vote and the majority of the 8% that did bother did not support John (and John's defence of his poor showing being solely at the hands of Derek Simpson is Infantile).

Given that Gordon-Brown has now driven a coach and horses through the bands and prescription rule the LRC must in turn change its rules in relation to other organisations, parties and individuals.

If the LRC is to be a catalyst for a non-sectarian left groups and individuals who support socialism in the labour party it will have drastically change its organisational structure.

Terry McCarthy