SELF IMMOLATION IS NOT THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE LRC

My sympathies still go to the AWL comrades seemingly expelled from the Labour Party without the chance to make their case. My understanding always was that the AWL was a sect, not a Party. However it seems I was wrong. Apparently, AWL is registered as a political Party and that means of course skating on extremely thin ice which could see all its membership being expelled from the Labour Party
I therefore note with some concern ( and I really did NOT want to go here again) that the AWL has a motion - the same tired old motion - to this year's LRC Conference calling for support for non-Labour candidates.
Let's be clear. This hasn't got a cat in hell's of being passed. Why? Because the LRC is not into self-immolation and as we all know support for non-Labour candidates is a GUARANTEE of expulsion. Spontaneous political combustion. To be blunt, you just cannot have it both ways, ie be in the Labour Party and also part of another Party. But what you can do is work with comrades outside towards a common goal of socialism
The West Yorkshire LRC resolution urges support for working with conrades outside Labour but NOT in an electoral way. We hope it will be possible to have another Convention Of The Left in Brighton next year and that the LRC will play a significant role in that .
Unlike AWL, supporters of the Convention ( which is NOT an organisation) are not resolutionisisng about new parties. But what we are doing is working together on campaigns, protests and radicalisation of people through a positive dialogue and events to build bridges between the Labour and non-Labour Left. That dialogue will continue at the Recall Conference in Manchester on November 29. And it breaks no Labour Party rules.
I know and like several comrades in the AWL and would hate to see any of them expelled but by advocating what they are advocating they really are in severe danger of being kicked out of the Labour Party. Because the rules are quite clear. I'm sorry comrades but the vast majority of us in the LRC prefer to stick to them and continue to fight our corner with a Labour Party membership card. In short, guys, your resolution is utter madness. I urge you to withdraw it.