Labour Students
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 | |
|---|---|
| Chairperson | Ben McGowan |
| Founded | 1971 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| International affiliation | International Union of Socialist Youth |
| European affiliation | Young European Socialists |
| National affiliation | Labour Party |
| Website | https://www.labourstudents.co.uk |
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. Although campaigning activity continued to be organised under the Labour Students branding during the 2019 general election, the organisation subsequently ceased to exist.
A new, refounded Labour Students was passed at the 2021 Labour Party Conference. National Committee elections were held in August 2022 and Ben McGowan was elected as chair of the organisation on 2 September 2022.