About

Sussex LRC is a local LRC group, which was originally founded as an affiliated branch of the national Labour Representation Committee.  In order to strengthen local campaigns of the Labour Left, and following the democratic wishes of our members, Sussex LRC has not met separately since 2017.  Instead, we support a united front with local Momentum, CLPD and other Labour groups from the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance.

We remain active supporting local workers in struggle and other local campaigns, as well as resisting the anti-socialist, undemocratic fifth column within Labour – as featured by one Brighton street artist in 2023.  This website records the past work of Sussex LRC when it was instrumental in galvanising the Labour Left across Sussex.  Contact details are current.

The original Labour Representation Committee was formed in 1900 to fight for political representation for the Labour Movement.  We now know it as the Labour Party.  The LRC was re-formed in 2004 to ensure the representation of working class interests and secure a voice for socialists within the Labour Party, the trade unions and Parliament.

Never in the history of the Labour Party has the need been so great to make the case for peace and socialism – and it is remarkable that Labour members have responded by twice electing a socialist leader, Jeremy Corbyn, who is so clearly able to do this and is building a team around him determined to take socialist ideas forward.

As the advocates of global capitalism and war desperately seek to tighten their control of the political agenda, the LRC and socialists are winning the battle of ideas within the Labour Party and trade unions, seeing hundreds of thousands return to the Labour Party who had previously turned away in disillusion and despair.

We call upon all socialists, Labour Party and trade union members, Constituency Labour Parties, Branch Labour Parties and union branches to join our campaign by joining or affiliating to the LRC, and supporting socialist ideas.  Let’s build the Labour Party into a mass membership party of a million members and form the social movement necessary to elect a democratic socialist Labour Government.

The LRC is a democratic organisation committed to fighting for a socialist future:

• We need a foreign policy based upon peace, justice and solidarity.
• Britain is a more unequal society than at any time since the Second World War. The LRC is fighting for a living wage, a decent state pension, council housing and public services run to meet our needs not sold off for private profit.
• All people are equal. We believe in fighting all forms of prejudice and discrimination.
  With global capitalism in control of the political agenda, there is an urgent need for a major shift of wealth and power in favour of ordinary people.
• The LRC was set-up to fight for workers’ rights, civil liberties and political representation.
• With the planet on the brink of environmental catastrophe the answer is not fracking, more nuclear power and an expansion of aviation. We need a green energy policy based on renewable energy, properly insulated well-built homes, and a fully integrated, cheap public transport system.