Vladimir Derer, campaigner for Labour Party democracy
Vladimir Derer who was the leading figure in the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD) for forty years after its foundation in 1973 has died at the age of 94. Although almost unknown other than amongst Labour activists, he was the Labour left’s leading strategist at the height of its influence in the 1970s and 1980s.His strategic vision made CLPD, the most effective organisation on the Labour left through to the New Labour years and the present. Tony Benn was rightly regarded as the Labour left’s outstanding leader and communicator of the period but he was often wrongly credited with...