Labour Students

Not to be confused with Labor Students.
"Labour Clubs" redirects here. For the social clubs, see National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs.
Labour Students
ChairpersonRuby Herbert
Founded1971, refounded 2022
HeadquartersLondon, United Kingdom
IdeologySocial democracy
National affiliationLabour Party
International affiliationInternational Union of Socialist Youth
European affiliationYoung European Socialists
Websitehttps://www.labourstudents.co.uk
Labour Students protesting against government cuts in March 2011

Labour Students is a student organisation within the Labour Party of the United Kingdom. It is a network of affiliated college and university clubs, known as Labour Clubs, who campaign in their campuses and communities for Labour's values of equality and social justice.

Labour Students’ main activities include providing political education and training to its members, sending activists to by-elections and marginal constituencies across the country and organising politically within the National Union of Students and Student Unions.

Labour Students was disaffiliated from the Labour Party by the Party's National Executive Committee in September 2019, with the intent of replacing it with a new student organisation.[1][2] Although campaigning activity continued to be organised under the Labour Students branding during the 2019 general election, the organisation subsequently ceased to exist.[1]

A new, refounded National Labour Students (NLS) was passed at the 2021 Labour Party Conference.[3] National Committee elections were held in August 2022[4] and Ben McGowan was elected as the inaugural chair of the organisation on 2 September 2022.[5]

  1. ^ a b Mason, Rowena (17 September 2019). "Labour votes to scrap student wing ahead of party conference". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
  2. ^ Rodgers, Sienna (17 September 2019). "NEC approves Lansman's motion to scrap Labour Students". LabourList. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  3. ^ Amos, Fraser; Mowlana, Nabeela (8 February 2022). "Refounding Labour Students: How the new NOLS was won and how it will work". LabourList.
  4. ^ Amos, Fraser; Charilaou, Alex (2 August 2022). "Why we are standing in the National Labour Students committee elections". LabourList.
  5. ^ Chappell, Elliot (1 September 2022). "Results released in NEC, national policy forum, youth and student wing elections". LabourList.