Editing Labour Students (section)

{{Short description|Student wing of the UK Labour Party}}
{{Distinguish|National Union of Students (Australia)}}
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{{Infobox political youth organization
| name = Labour Students 
| logo             = Labour Students Logo.gif
| colorcode        = #EE0000
| chairperson      = Ruby Herbert
| founded.         = 1971, refounded 2022
| headquarters     = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]]
| national         = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]
| regional1_type   = European
| regional1_name   = [[Young European Socialists]]
| international    = [[International Union of Socialist Youth]]
| ideology         = [[Social democracy]]
| website          = {{URL|labourstudents.co.uk}}
}}
[[File:Labour Students - 5563409955.jpg|thumb|right|Labour Students protesting against government cuts in March 2011]]
'''Labour Students''' is a student organisation within the [[Labour Party (UK)|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’ 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 (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students]] and [[Student unionism in the United Kingdom|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.<ref name=guardian-20190917>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/17/labour-purges-its-student-wing-ahead-of-party-conference |title=Labour votes to scrap student wing ahead of party conference |last=Mason |first=Rowena |newspaper=The Guardian |date=17 September 2019 |access-date=18 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://labourlist.org/2019/09/nec-approves-lansmans-motion-to-scrap-labour-students/|title=NEC approves Lansman's motion to scrap Labour Students|last=Rodgers|first=Sienna|date=17 September 2019|website=LabourList|language=en-GB|access-date=17 September 2019}}</ref> Although campaigning activity continued to be organised under the Labour Students branding during the [[2019 general election in the United Kingdom|2019 general election]], the organisation subsequently ceased to exist.<ref name=guardian-20190917/>

A new, refounded '''National Labour Students''' (NLS) was passed at the 2021 [[Labour Party Conference]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://labourlist.org/2022/02/refounding-labour-students-how-the-new-nols-was-won-and-how-it-will-work/|title=Refounding Labour Students: How the new NOLS was won and how it will work|first1=Fraser|last1=Amos|first2=Nabeela|last2=Mowlana|date=8 February 2022|website=LabourList}}</ref> National Committee elections were held in August 2022<ref>{{cite web |url=https://labourlist.org/2022/08/why-we-are-standing-to-be-reps-on-the-national-labour-students-committee/ |title=Why we are standing in the National Labour Students committee elections |last1=Amos |first1=Fraser |last2=Charilaou |first2=Alex |date=2 August 2022 |website=LabourList}}</ref> and Ben McGowan was elected as the inaugural chair of the organisation on 2 September 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://labourlist.org/2022/09/results-released-in-nec-national-policy-forum-and-youth-wing-elections/|title=Results released in NEC, national policy forum, youth and student wing elections|first=Elliot|last=Chappell|date=1 September 2022|website=LabourList}}</ref>