Labour NEC: comparing the 2020 walkout with the last time the left walked out in 1986

Christopher Massey compares the left’s walkout of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee meeting in November 2020 with the last time such a substantial walkout occurred in March 1986. Whilst the actions of the ‘hard’ left in 1986 rendered the meeting inquorate and stopped disciplinary action being taken against a Militant member, the virtual walkout of the left caucus in 2020 had no such impact.