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Politically the RMT was affiliated with the left wing political party, the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC), [22] [23] which it co-founded, until it disaffiliated in 2022. [24] The RMT is also affiliated to the Labour Representation Committee , [ 25 ] a pressure group which aims to promote traditional socialist principles within ...
The party was created by the trade unions and socialist societies in 1900 as the Labour Representation Committee and the unions have retained close institutional links with it. Affiliated unions pay an annual fee to the Labour Party; in return, they elect thirteen of the thirty-nine members of Labour's National Executive Committee and fifty per ...
The United Patternmakers' Association's general secretary, George Buchanan, remained with the Independent Labour Party after it split from the Labour Party in 1931, and it sponsored him in that election. By 1935, the union withdrew official sponsorship for him, but it set up a voluntary fund to back him to which members could choose to donate.
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TUSC claimed in September 2020 that the RMT executive urged TUSC to resume electoral activity after Jeremy Corbyn stepped down as Labour Party leader. TUSC stated: 'Representatives from the biggest component organisation of TUSC, the RMT transport workers’ union, reported to the [TUSC national steering committee] meeting on September 2, that ...
Future Britain Group - a centre-left group of Labour MPs, founded in 2019 by Labour's former Deputy Leader, Tom Watson, to counter the party's far left Independent Labour Publications (ILP) - founded 1975, pressure group which rejects contemporary capitalism and the command economy but accepts the idea of a market economy as part of democratic ...
Labour is considering capping political donations by individuals and private companies amid reports Elon Musk will hand a $100m donation to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. The Tesla tycoon is said to ...