The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD)’s Annual General Meeting will take place at 11.30am (till approx 4.30pm with break for lunch) on Saturday 18 February at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, in Central London. There will be a Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) report from Christine Shawcroft and a Parliamentary Labour Party report

In the eyes of the EU elite, the greatest impediment to ‘the European project’ is the continued existence of the pesky electorate.

Perhaps Stealers Wheel had it right… so it’s time to speak my mind, isn’t it? I have been following the debate on internal party democracy with first interest, then frustration, and now a degree of numbing disbelief, as the Parliamentary Parties have taken significant flak from a cross-section of Party members and activists. And yet,

Some well-informed people — Rupert Murdoch among them — have suggested that Mitt Romney could exploit Obama’s increasingly fractious relationship with America’s Catholics to win the presidential elections in November. The so-called 'Catholic vote' is often said to be the crucial swing factor in American democracy. Romney, however, may be facing a bigger socio-reli...

Government of technocrats is no good news for Italy's democracy <BR>

From Occupy to the Tea Party, the obsession with corruption is far more damaging to democracy than politicians' alleged shady dealings.

Labour Westminster Councillors say that the prospect of the election of a new Leader of Westminster City Council by just 48 Conservative Councillors, 47 of whom consistently voted to support outgoing Leader Colin Barrow's failed West End parking charge plans, is an 'insult to democracy'. Labour say that the new Leader of the Council should be elected by all 250,000 Westminster resid...

Over the past 21 months I have had many moments when I have felt close to despair about the behaviour of our parliamentarians. Sometimes, like voting in favour of tuition fees, they can rightly point to the Coalition Agreement – endorsed overwhelmingly – as Nick Clegg observed at the time – by a North Korean

Democracy is an overused word these days. That, in itself, would not be a bad thing if it were being used correctly, but the trouble is that it rarely is. There is a growing assumption - perpetuated by the mass media - that democracy is simply the will of a large group of people expressed in some collective form or another. This is a simplistic and inaccurate view and one which I most definitely d...

Social networks can act as a catalyst to help direct democracy prevail over current economic and political monopolies, writes Viktor Tkachuk from the "People First" organisation in Ukraine. More »