The National Council leads and manages organisational and financial issues between national conferences. It meets at least four times a year and is made up of:
- Four nationally elected principal speakers
- Six nationally elected office holders
- Fifteen nationally elected council members
- Forty regional representatives, assigned proportionally
- One representative from each of the caucuses
Minutes of National Council meetings can be found here.
Minutes of the Executive Committee, which is elected from the National Council, can be found here.
National Council members 2017
National Secretary: Felicity Dowling
Principal Speakers: Joseph Healy, Nick Jones and Sharon McCourt
Media Officer: Kate Hudson
Trade Union Officer: Stephen Hall
Membership and Communication officer: Andrew Burgin
Nationally elected members
Ann Bennett, Len Arthur, Barbara Segal, Julie Morrow, Neil Faulkner, Alison Treacher, Richard Farnos, Pete McLaren, Bianca Todd, Bob Williams Findlay and Steve Freeman
Regional and national places
London
Doug Thorpe, Ruth Steigman and Phil Hearse
North West Region
Martin Ralph
South East region
Ed Huxley, Pip Tindall, John Fitzgerald
West Midlands region
Darren McCourt
Yorkshire and Humberside region
Marc Renwick
Wales
Peter Jones, Pam Stevens
Disputes
Steve Ogden
Constitutional Commission
Kate Hudson, Ed Huxley, Bob Whitehead
National Council and committee members are elected annually by all-member ballot. For more information email elections@leftunity.org.
Left Unity is active in movements and campaigns across the left, working to create an alternative to the main political parties.
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ACTIVIST CALENDAR
Events and protests from around the movement, and local Left Unity meetings.
Saturday 23 September
Social Housing not social cleansing: Demonstrate!
Stop HDV: 12.00 noon. Assemble Tottenham Green, (nearest tube Seven Sisters).
Sunday 1 October
Tories Out Demonstration
12 noon to 4pm, Castlefield Bowl, Manchester
Organised by the People’s Assembly
Friday 10th to Saturday 11th November
Marseille Forum, France
A European-wide gathering of progressive forces in Marseille – trade unions, campaigns, parties, social movements – discussing the crisis we face and how to build a different Europe. Contact info@leftunity.org
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