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Open Labour
@OpenLabour
The home of Democratic Socialists in @UKLabour. For a bolder, more democratic, outward-looking politics. JOIN US: openlabour.org/membership-sig…
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Sep 10, 2025
    It was great to hear from our members yesterday in an online call to discuss the establishment of @mainstreamlbr and Open Labour's involvement. Thank you to all who attended on such short notice!
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    Mainstream
    @mainstreamlbr
    Sep 9, 2025
    Our country faces a choice. The populist right offers only division and decline. The Labour Party must prove there’s a democratic socialist alternative, and make it real. Now more than ever, it needs to hear & heed the voices of its radical realists. mainstreamlabour.org/get-involved
    Graphic which says: Labour must offer a popular, principled and practical left politics for meaningful change.
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Sep 21, 2021
    Our core principle is to strive for more democracy not less. At this year’s conference we have a record number of delegates on the floor, if there are any attempts to bring back the electoral college, we will urge them and everyone else to reject it.
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    May 9, 2020
    We support this petition created by member @willuminare calling on Labour to support cancelling rent payments for tenants experiencing a drop in income. Deferring rent payments is not enough. We encourage our members to sign and support #CancelTheRent
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    To: The Labour Party
    cc: Thangam Debbonaire MP, Keir Starmer MP On the Subject of Rent and COVID-19: Across the United Kingdom, in every single one of your constituencies, there are private renters. These private renters...
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Jan 31, 2020
    Following an extensive ballot of our members and a debate event in Nottingham, Open Labour is proud to announce its support for @lisanandy for leader of the Labour Party! lisanandy.org
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Apr 7, 2021
    We are delighted to see PR is at the forefront of Momentum’s agenda and look forward to working with them and other groups to getting electoral reform adopted as policy at Labour Party Conference🌹
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    LCER
    @Labour4PR
    Apr 7, 2021
    "A popular consensus is building across the labour movement for a change to our First Past the Post electoral system, which has consistently delivered Tory majorities on a minority of the vote... @PeoplesMomentum will join the charge for PR" - @gayasktn labourlist.org/2021/04/moment…
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Jul 24, 2021
    For over a year we have tried protecting each other from Covid. More than 150,000 loved ones have died. Most of us continue to wear masks and many continue to shield to protect vulnerable loved ones. That is not cowardly. Javid's suggestion is vile and he is unfit for office.
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Apr 13, 2020
    Break the cycle: Open Labour response to the leaked report >>
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    Break the cycle: Open Labour response to the leaked internal investigation on anti-Semitism
    The dossier leaked this weekend is utterly shocking in its content and requires a response which is full and considered. The initial reaction to many aspects of what has been leaked have so far bee…
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Jul 27, 2023
    We have always been clear, Transphobia has no place in our society and especially in our Party. We're proud to support the commitment to trans rights, especially self-ID. 🏳️‍⚧️✊
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    Alex Charilaou
    @charilaou_alex
    Jul 27, 2023
    Labour Students stands in complete solidarity with the trans community, and it always will 🏳️‍⚧️✊ We need action on transphobia in @UKLabour and demedicalised self-ID introduced in the first term of a Labour Government. Anything else is a betrayal of the LGBTQ+ community.
    A statement from a majority of the National Labour Students Committee. Labour Students reaffirms its unequivocal support and solidarity with the trans community in light of Keir Starmer's recent use of transphobic dogwhistles and the abandoning of our Party's commitment to self-ID. Trans women are women and trans men are men - any statement to the contrary is transphobia, and completely unacceptable. The Labour Party and its national leadership should be a champion for LGBTQ+ rights, tackling transphobia within the Party and society. Instead, we see a continued failure of Labour to clamp down on anti-trans hate. This must end. Labour Clubs across the country have affirmed their solidarity with the trans community time and again. We continue to encourage Labour Students members as well as the wider labour movement to affirm support for the trans community and to condemn the leadership's actions… Continued on next image alt.
    Over the next few months, Labour Students is going to make campaigning for anti-transphobia structures in the Party a priority. Labour must have a definition of transphobia with wide support from across the trans community so there is a standard by which cases of transphobia can be judged against. Moreover, Labour MPs who have consistently espoused anti-trans beliefs should lose the Labour whip - they do not align with our values as the Party of equality. We will also continue to support and work for a full, demedicalised self-ID system of gender recognition. We will never stop fighting for a world free from transphobia and other forms of hate. In solidarity, Fabiha Askari, Alex Charilaou, Kieron Warren, Moya O’Rourke, Lola Fayokun, Elilee Arulkumar, Joshua Freestone, Chloe Brookes, Ruth Day, Nimah Ogas-Hersi, Molly Bloomfield, Lily Soaper, Eleanor Falshaw, Zac Bates-Fisher, Hareem Ghani, Libs Olley and Cai Parry. All members of National Labour Students Committee.
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Sep 26, 2021
    "Saying trans women are women and trans men are men is just the beginning. We need to be fighting for trans people in the workplace. We need to be fighting for trans healthcare" says our Parliamentary Officer Alex Sobel MP at tonight's rally #Lab21
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Jun 30, 2020
    We're very pleased to see the @UKLabour NEC adopt a fairer voting system, where all members count and all of us matter. This is good news for member democracy. If you want sweeping majorities you now need sweeping support - but it's also harder for any faction to be erased.
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Nov 17, 2021
    On banning MPs' dodgy second jobs, "we have to be careful about this, we are dealing with human beings who have families and responsibilities," says Tory MP Andrew Rosindell, who voted cut £20 Universal Credit from struggling families because "maybe they don’t need it".
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Sep 18, 2019
    Full solidarity with our member @OmarSalem, who has spent the day being hounded by the right-wing press and their lickspittle bloggers for having the audacity to criticise the PM when his child was ill in hospital. You are the worst people. Thank you.
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Jul 28, 2021
    Labour should heed its affiliates representing minority groups when they speak out. The party must demonstrate that it will not tolerate transphobia or homophobia from members or elected officials. Solidarity with LGBT+ members across the party who are affected by this.🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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    LGBT+ Labour
    @LGBTLabour
    Jul 26, 2021
    We are calling for the whip to be removed from Rosie Duffield MP and have a submitted a formal complaint to the party about her conduct. @UKLabour must show zero tolerance towards homophobia and transphobia, including from its own MPs. labourlist.org/2021/07/withdr…
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    Open Labour
    @OpenLabour
    Feb 25, 2019
    Never seen a group of people more likely to all order lemon and herb.
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    ChukaUmunna
    @ChukaUmunna
    Feb 25, 2019
    First @TheIndGroup meal out before votes tonight at Nando’s!