Welcome to the Labour Democratic Network (LDN), a grouping a Labour Party members dedicated to working to ensure that Labour develops as a modern and energetic political party rooted in best democratic practice and tradition.
LDN’s core themes and values are set out in the Manchester Declaration (see below).
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LDN will be a network based on a commitment to inclusivity. We would be grateful if you would take time to read the Manchester Declaration and then sign up to the declaration — details at the bottom of the declaration.
Inspiring, just what is needed! We got to clear out the debris and cobwebs of Old Labour, overlaid by the gloss of New Labour which endorsed and strengthened the corrupt, self-serving power structures that have eroded the vibrancy of our socialist movement: Labour ‘sold its soul to the lure of the market’, it was only too transparent to our supporters out there who turned their backs on us in disgust and despair.
Old and New Labour has to be put firmly in the past; True Labour, based on values laid down in the Manchester Declaration, can and will ignate the imagination of Young and Old, unite and motivate us to hope again, work together, rebuild the Labour Party and shape a future for all of us that is sustainable. But it also has to be a marriage of Red and Green: we have to understand that it is Capitalism which is destroying our planet – the Green agenda has brought about a widespread realisation of just how precarious our collective survival chances have become because of the ruthless exploitation of nature; but it is Socialism – our movement, the history of our struggles against that same ruthless exploitation of human beings that gives us the strategic analysis, the organisation and knowing that only solidarity and collective cooperation can make us strong enough to reverse the present downward spiral into economic and social disaster.
This must be the ‘synthesis’, the next great leap that makes our movement fit for the 21st century.