Standing up for trans rights at your local council

Standing up for trans rights at your local council

With trans rights under attack across the UK, including through the appointment of transphobic figures to run the EHRC, we've pulled together some ways you can stand up for trans rights via your local council, whether you're a councillor or not!

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TV Licenses: How can we justify criminalising people for living in poverty?

TV Licenses: How can we justify criminalising people for living in poverty?

Jasmine Joséphine Sakura-Rose writes about the experience of growing up in a family facing the threat of being criminalised for being unable to afford a TV license.

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Radical Association Statement: Defections to the Liberal Democrats

Radical Association Statement: Defections to the Liberal Democrats

There has recently been widespread speculation that some politicians are considering defecting to the Liberal Democrats. We of course welcome the prospect of strengthening the Parliamentary Party, but believe that it is absolutely necessary that any prospective defector should hold beliefs compatible with Liberal Democrat principles, as expressed in the preamble to our constitution.

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Using tech to reform the party's disciplinary process - April Preston

Using tech to reform the party's disciplinary process - April Preston

April Preston: Last Spring, I spoke against our party’s disciplinary motion, “Our party aims to be agents of change and we do so by producing progressive policy’, I nervously spluttered, my first ever time speaking in that bright-light yet mustardy stage-space. So it is a natural progression then, that this Autumn conference I have submitted my first ever amendment.

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Radical Association calls for rethink on immigration policy paper

Radical Association calls for rethink on immigration policy paper

The Radical Association are urging members to call for a rethink of the immigration policy paper being presented at Autumn Conference.

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Thoughts on GE 2017: Now is the time for radical liberalism

Thoughts on GE 2017: Now is the time for radical liberalism

The outcome of the general election is one that few expected. The dust is still settling but here are some thoughts on what lessons the election result offers to liberalism.

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