The Cambridge University Labour Club (CULC) is a political society set up in the early twentieth century to unite socialist students at Cambridge University with the Labour Party. Its varied past has seen it go through several disaffiliations, including periods in the 1960s and 1970s when it was under the influence of the Militant Tendency and disaffiliated with the national Labour Party. It is currently a part of the Labour Party again, but has disaffiliated from Labour Students. Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Labour Party has, since the early twentieth century, been the principal left wing political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... It has been suggested that Militant (Britain) be merged into this article or section. ... Labour Students, often referred to as NOLS (from National Organisation of Labour Students, the former title), is an independent student organisation affiliated to the British Labour Party. ...

It runs occasional speaker meetings and dinners each term. From 1992 to 2005 it was able to offer its members exclusive trips to the Houses of Parliament and Downing Street through the office of Anne Campbell, but after she lost the Cambridge seat in 2005, these opportunities vanished. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This may refer to the: British Houses of Parliament. ... Downing Street For a wider coverage of London, visit the London Portal. ... Anne Campbell (born April 6, 1940) is an English politician. ...

It has gone through several name changes, having been previously known as the Cambridge University Socialist Club, the Cambridge Organisation of Labour Students, and then simply Cambridge Labour. It adopted its current name in 1992, shortly after the election of Anne Campbell. The acronym CULC had historically belonged to the Cambridge University Liberal Club, before they became the Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats in 1988, and the acronym is still shared to this day with the Cambridge University Lacrosse Club. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Cambridge Student Liberal Democrats, the student branch of the Liberal Democrats for students at both Cambridge University and the Anglia Ruskin University campus in Cambridge. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The Club was most influential from the 1930s to the 1970s, when left-leaning schools of thought in British academia were centred at Cambridge, in areas such as Keynesian economics and the Marxist school of history, resulting in a great many influential Cambridge Fellows and their students being members. Keynesian economics (pronounced ), also called Keynesianism, or Keynesian Theory, is an economic theory based on the ideas of an economist]], Keynesian economics promotes a mixed economy, where both the state and the private sector play an important role. ... fellows may refer to: the plural of Fellow Fellows, California This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Current Office-Holders

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Alumni

As a society, CULC has produced such notable alumni as:

• Diane Abbott, MP
• Anne Campbell, MP
• Charles Clarke, MP, Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Lord Eatwell, former special advisor to Neil Kinnock
• Charles Falconer, Lord Chancellor
• Andrew Gilligan, journalist
• Lord Harris of Haringey, chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority
• Patricia Hewitt, MP, Secretary of State for Health
• Geoff Hoon, MP, Secretary of State for Defence
• Derry Irvine, Lord Chancellor
• Chris Smith MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

Charles Clarke was also elected President of the Cambridge Students' Union on a Labour party slate. Diane Julie Abbott (born September 27, 1953 in Paddington, London) is a British Labour Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency. ... Anne Campbell (born April 6, 1940) is an English politician. ... The Rt Hon. ... The Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Home Secretary) is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in England and Wales; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, internal security, and matters of citizenship and immigration. ... John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell (2 February 1945— ) is the current President of Queens College, Cambridge, and is an influential British economist. ... Charles Leslie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, PC (born November 19, 1951), is a British lawyer and Labour Party politician. ... Andrew Gilligan Andrew Paul Gilligan (born 22 November 1968, Teddington, Middlesex, England) is a journalist best known for his report, while defence and diplomatic correspondent for BBC Radio 4s The Today Programme, about the British Governments dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. ... Toby Harris, Baron Harris of Haringey is a Labour Party politician in the House of Lords. ... The Metropolitan Police Authority is the police authority responsible for supervising the Metropolitan Police Service, the police force for Greater London. ... The Right Honourable Patricia Hope Hewitt (born 22 December 1948) British politician. ... Minister of Health redirects here. ... Geoff Hoon (right) at Pentagon briefing Geoffrey William Geoff Hoon (born December 6, 1953) is a British politician. ... The Secretary of State for Defence is the senior United Kingdom government minister in charge of the Ministry of Defence. ... Alexander Andrew Mackay Irvine, Lord Irvine of Lairg, QC, PC (born June 23, 1940), known as Derry Irvine, is a British lawyer and political figure who served as Lord Chancellor under his former pupil Tony Blair. ... Christopher Robert Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, PC (born 24 July 1951) is a British Labour Party politician and former Member of Parliament and Cabinet minister. ... The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is a UK cabinet position with responsibility for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. ... Cambridge University Students Union (CUSU) is the university-wide representative body for students at the University of Cambridge, England. ...

External links

• Cambridge University Labour Club